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Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life

[googlemap lat=”48.532975799741635″ lng=”-123.01666259765625″ width=”400px” height=”300px” zoom=”11″ type=”G_HYBRID_MAP”]48.532976,-123.016663[/googlemap] This week finds me for the first time in Friday Harbor. This week I am meeting with 19…

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Peter Etnoyer May 11, 2009 carbon sequestration deep-sea robot DNA laboratory Iron Hypothesis MBARI mermaid Microbes Silurian sea Victor Navone

Bloom carbon won’t sink Scientists studying the fate of carbon particles originating in Southern Ocean plankton blooms find that the carbon never reaches the deep…

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Friday Deep-sea Picture: Basking Shark

Peter Etnoyer May 8, 2009 basking shark migration satellite tag shark

Basking sharks can measure 35 feet or longer, are known to live in temperate waters around the world, but their wintering grounds were unknown until…

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Transformers Into the Deep

Dr. M May 7, 2009 AUV Challenger Deep Nereus Pacific Ocean robot ROV submarine Transformer WHOI Wood's Hole

From BBC News… If successful, Nereus will be the first autonomous vehicle to visit the 11,000m (36,089ft) Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean. Only two…

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Interactive mosaic of the Gulf of Mexico

Peter Etnoyer April 30, 2009 Dixie Smith electronic art Gulf of Mexico Harte Research Institute

Have you ever seen an interactive mosaic? Its a very modern art form. Harte Research Institute’s (HRI) Dixie Smith made this very image of South…

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Bacterial assemblages in deep Lophelia coral

Peter Etnoyer April 28, 2009

DSN friend and colleague Dr. Christina Kellogg published a new paper this month characterizing the bacterial assemblages of deep Lophelia pertusa coral in the Gulf…

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