Everything you ever wanted to know about sea pigs (Holothuroidea: Scotoplanes sp.) from the Echinoblog. The best part is the gastropods parasites that love them…
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5 Questions With Me
The Duke Research site this month features my answers to five questions about ocean biodiversity, body size variation, blue whales, municipal water supplies, giant squids,…
View More 5 Questions With MeOMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of Despair
It’s a hard knock life for deep-sea animals. It’s really cold in the winter. It’s really cold in the summer. It’s dark and wet…like Boston…
View More OMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of DespairDeep-Sea Transformer Sets Record
At the beginning of May we discussed Nereus, the new $5 million hybrid-transformer-multipurpose-all knowing-swiss army knife of deep-sea research from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. The…
View More Deep-Sea Transformer Sets RecordJSL and Giant Isopods
My first submersible dive happened off Rum Cay in the Bahamas in the JSL. Despite my large size, I do not remember feeling cramped inside…
View More JSL and Giant IsopodsLighted Whoopie In The Sea: Repost
In the deep dark sea, bioluminescence is the name of game. Its central role is unequivocal for many organisms. Do different sexes of species display…
View More Lighted Whoopie In The Sea: RepostThe Great Thing About Being a Marine Biologist Is
I get to sit around this morning drinking coffee at a beautiful location and listen to talks about Komokiacea (see here, here, and here also…
View More The Great Thing About Being a Marine Biologist IsSea Monsters of the Deep
This month’s Science Illustrated discusses how some deep-sea organisms are larger than thier shallow water cousins. The article dicusses the processes that lead to this…
View More Sea Monsters of the DeepThings You Get To Do When You Are A Marine Biologist?
I regularly check out the Google search phrases and terms for how people arrived at DSN. A few days ago I saw that someone asked…
View More Things You Get To Do When You Are A Marine Biologist?Ocean Acidification, Not Good For Living
Two recent papers in Nature GeoScience demonstrate the real effects of ocean acidification. For those not in know, there is an ongoing decrease in the…
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