A species of holothurian, Pannychia, swarms a whale fecal mound in the abyssal Pacific. When Miriam visited me last week at MBARI, we discussed over…
View More New Deep-Sea Communities From Whale PooCategory: New Research
Deep Oceans and Deep Space
I don’t study hydrothermal vents. I rather enjoy the deep muddy ooze, and its organisms, that comprise much of the earth’s surface. Not that I…
View More Deep Oceans and Deep SpaceA Deep Sea Mutualism in Response to Predation
Sometimes we just need a little help to get by in life. A nudge, some encouragement or a simple pat on the back will suffice.…
View More A Deep Sea Mutualism in Response to PredationBig Animals Make Small Animals More Abundant
I’ve already addressed the difficulty of doing experiments in the deep sea which ultimately leads to their rarity. I also mentioned given the costs and…
View More Big Animals Make Small Animals More AbundantOcean's least productive waters are expanding
You read the title of this post, and the original paper, correctly. Brian H. sent this little gem of a paper to me today. Using…
View More Ocean's least productive waters are expandingOcean’s least productive waters are expanding
You read the title of this post, and the original paper, correctly. Brian H. sent this little gem of a paper to me today. Using…
View More Ocean’s least productive waters are expandingThe Deep Is A Wonderful Utopia For The Big and Small
Experiments in the deep sea are a novelty, like a healthy Southern breakfast. Mmm…biscuits…but I digress. If you want to run a experiment in the…
View More The Deep Is A Wonderful Utopia For The Big and SmallSome Quotes From William Beebe
Quotes from Beebe’sHalf-Mile Down in which he describes his and Otis Barton’s 1934 descent to 3,028 feet off Bermuda. To reach this depth the two…
View More Some Quotes From William BeebeWho Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?
Ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an…
View More Who Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?Ladies of the Bone-Devouring Worm Prefer Their Boys Tiny and in Harems
These chicas are freaky. But if you lived on a whale vertebrae and eat through bone, perhaps you’d be a little on the kinky side…
View More Ladies of the Bone-Devouring Worm Prefer Their Boys Tiny and in Harems