My life for the past few months has been all about sharks. Mind you, I’m not complaining. A confluence of opportunities has me building…
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Scientist in Residence: My ‘Seascape of Fear’
Eric Heupel is a graduate student at University of Connecticut in Oceanography. He keeps a personal blog at Eclectic Echoes and Larval Images, and used…
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We have a long history of being HUGE fans of the “bone-devouring zombie worm from hell”. Osedax species were described less than 10 years ago…
View More Whale Bone-Devouring Worm Into More Than Just WhalesA Tale of Germanic Chieftains and Deep-Sea Corals
The year is 9CE. Fourteen years later Pliny the Elder will be Pliny the Newly Born. Cai Lun will invent paper one hundred years later.…
View More A Tale of Germanic Chieftains and Deep-Sea CoralsFinding Our Deep Blue Home
If you are looking a fact-based text on the ecology the oceans, Deep Blue Home is not for you. If you are interested in the…
View More Finding Our Deep Blue HomeA 21st century view of Marine Biology
So you wanna be a marine biologist in the 21st century? Better crack open that MacBook and start writing perl scripts. As part of our…
View More A 21st century view of Marine BiologyDeep-sea additions to the Nematode Tree of Life
Sometimes I am stunned by the vastness of the internet, as well as the brief 15-nanoseconds of fame that go along with most of its…
View More Deep-sea additions to the Nematode Tree of LifeKrill Sex
Make sure you go read Hannah’s post on krill sex in the deep sea. Find out why should care about where Antarctic krill get it…
View More Krill SexDSN Scientist In Residence Jarrett Byrnes On Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
In my last post, I showed that ocean food webs are being re-written by human driven extinctions and invasions. In particular, most species that have…
View More DSN Scientist In Residence Jarrett Byrnes On Biodiversity and Ecosystem FunctionTide Pool: Cephalopods, Ash, and Sulphur Are to Blame
An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Heightened biodiversity may make an ecosystem more stabile…
View More Tide Pool: Cephalopods, Ash, and Sulphur Are to Blame