A report from Dr. M while he is at sea in the northeast Pacific. You can also follow the expedition here. Monday was consumed with…
View More NE Pacific Expedition Day 6 & 7Category: New Research
Following 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 FootstepsNE Pacific Expedition Day 5
A report from Dr. M while he is at sea in the northeast Pacific. You can follow the expedition here. Our first day in the…
View More NE Pacific Expedition Day 5NE Pacific Expedition Day 3&4
A report from Dr. M while he is at sea in the northeast Pacific. You can follow the expedition here. photo credit: zlatkarp I began…
View More NE Pacific Expedition Day 3&4NE Pacific Expedition Day 1&2
After several hours of flying followed by several hours of driving, I arrived at Newport, Oregon last night. Although not planned, the Rogue Brewery next…
View More NE Pacific Expedition Day 1&2Pacific 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 ExpeditionA 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 SailDeepC Wormz R Da Bomb
Or perhaps more appropriately have the bomb. Osborn et al. report in Science seven previously unknown species (0.7 to 3.6 inches) of annelid worms hailing…
View More DeepC Wormz R Da BombMore Mercury Deeper
Mercury is distributed across the earth whether it is in the atmosphere, biosphere, or geosphere. In the marine realm, the methylated form of mercury (CH3Hg+)…
View More More Mercury DeeperShrimp Tails: Describing a New Species
Dr. M was kind enough to mention and congratulate me on my first publication several months back. I just had two more papers published in…
View More Shrimp Tails: Describing a New Species