This Saturday July 19, 2008 from 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. is the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s Open House. If you are in central…
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Diving To 100ft…Indoors
Sure you can do that deep scuba dive in 47 degree Fahrenheit water off the California coast. Sure you might get to see some kelp,…
View More Diving To 100ft…IndoorsBoy Band Meets Automated Pippetting
Being a deep-sea biologist is not all riding around in a wetsuit in a zodiac chasing down giant squid at 30 knots. Sometimes I have…
View More Boy Band Meets Automated PippettingI Love the Smell of the Deep Sea in the Morning
Following in the footsteps of Craig, I have a short piece published in the July/August issue of SEED Magazine for their Why I Do Science…
View More I Love the Smell of the Deep Sea in the MorningToo Many Species, Too Few Scientists
That is the common theme in marine biology. Clara Moskowitz has an article up at LiveScience describing how scientists are struggling to keep up with…
View More Too Many Species, Too Few ScientistsBad Times For Deep-Scientist May Mean Good Times For the Deep
Rising gas prices may have one more causality, one you many not have thought of…oceanographic science. Our main tool is the research vessel, large contraptions…
View More Bad Times For Deep-Scientist May Mean Good Times For the Deep4th Deep-Sea Coral Symposium accepting abstracts
Deep-sea corals bring people together. Geologists, ecologists, taxonomists, managers and climatologists all get a kick out of our heartless, brainless, colonial friends. So, we get…
View More 4th Deep-Sea Coral Symposium accepting abstractsPLoS ONE Get Its “Taxonomy Barrier” Broken
I really love that quote from Alex Wild, by the way. Brian Fisher (my former Evolution T.A. from ye ole UC-Davis days) and Alex Smith…
View More PLoS ONE Get Its “Taxonomy Barrier” BrokenPLoS ONE Get Its "Taxonomy Barrier" Broken
I really love that quote from Alex Wild, by the way. Brian Fisher (my former Evolution T.A. from ye ole UC-Davis days) and Alex Smith…
View More PLoS ONE Get Its "Taxonomy Barrier" BrokenBallard: "Why Are We Ignoring the Oceans?"
National Geographic Explorer and oceanographer Robert Ballard makes a case for serious exploration and mapping. Video is 18 min. long and recorded in February 2008…
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