Thursday saw an early morning arrival of a bleary-eyed american to Rio de Janeiro. After making a somewhat easy trip through immigration and customs and…
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TGIF: Maori War Dance
The haka is the traditional dance form of the Maori of New Zealand. Dances may contain stamping of the feet, slapping of the thighs, pounding…
View More TGIF: Maori War DanceKevin Z…21st Century Darwin
Duke News and Communications just put up a press release about the Beagle Project! “In an inspiring mix of 19th and 21st Century technologies, a…
View More Kevin Z…21st Century DarwinVideo Feed Live From 30 Meters
It has been a long year waiting to announce this. Last year Dr. Adrian Glover, long time DSN fan from the Natural History Museum in…
View More Video Feed Live From 30 MetersBack From the Blue
Back from the great NE Pacific and no sooner do I return than Kevin takes off for the great SE Atlantic. Overall a very productive…
View More Back From the BlueJoin DSN and the Beagle Project in Brazil
The fabulous Karen James and I will blogging and tweeting the “party in Paraty” starting this Thursday! There is an exciting line up of events…
View More Join DSN and the Beagle Project in BrazilFollowing in Darwin’s Footsteps
In only a couple weeks The HMS Beagle Project will conduct a feasibility study for doing modern oceanographic research aboard a sailing ship. The Brazilian…
View More Following in Darwin’s FootstepsPacific Northwest Expedition
Just a reminder that Chris Mah (from Echinoblog) and I will participating in Leg 5 of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s expedition to the…
View More Pacific Northwest ExpeditionIsabel Farfante 1916-2009
As a taxonomist and marine biologist, it is very hard to lose “one of us”. There are not many around and each loss is a…
View More Isabel Farfante 1916-2009A Flagship for Science in a New Age of Sail
Karen James, director of science for the The Beagle Project, has published a letter (subscription required) in the taxonomy journal Zoologica Scripta outlining the reasons…
View More A Flagship for Science in a New Age of Sail