My colleagues Dr. Bruce Carlson – recently retired – and Marj Awai were the first folks to successfully collect chambered nautilus for display in public…
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ReefBase broadcast tonight!
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums is holding its annual conference in Atlanta this week (Twitter #AZA2011) and at tonights iceabreaker event at Georgia Aquarium,…
View More ReefBase broadcast tonight!Silence in the Sierras
Last week I got back from a 97-mile backpacking trip through the southern Sierra Nevada mountains in California. We started at Bishop Pass and hike…
View More Silence in the SierrasFijians Hope Lives in “Shark Hope”
By now you’ve no doubt noticed that international shark protections (well, at least legislative shark protections) are beginning to pile-up. It can be truly said…
View More Fijians Hope Lives in “Shark Hope”Big text files can tell you how the ocean works
…because “High-throughput sequencing confers a deep view of seasonal community dynamics in pelagic marine environments”, however appropriate a title, seems far too dry and technical…
View More Big text files can tell you how the ocean worksBehind the veil
We had a bit of a mystery pop up while in Mexico recently for our annual whale shark research project, one with a funky twist…
View More Behind the veilBubble Up: A Deepwater Horizon Disaster Song
Lyrics to Bubble Up! are here. BUBBLE UP is a song dedicated to the current state of the world, with music by julian mock and…
View More Bubble Up: A Deepwater Horizon Disaster SongThere Is More Than One Way To Impregnate A Squid
All sperm are not the same. Among fruit flies the longer the reproductive tract of the female the longer the sperm. In tiny crustaceans called…
View More There Is More Than One Way To Impregnate A SquidInvertebrate Wannabe
After reading a recent paper in the journal Coral Reefs on the ability of Harlequin filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris) to masquerade as branching stony coral (abstract…
View More Invertebrate WannabeA great day for a little Traumatic Insemination
Sometimes I think that those of us studying ‘minor phyla’ do so in order to prevent from developing some secret (potentially peverse) obsessions. Example: I…
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