Editor’s Note: The following interview was conducted by Colin Schultz for American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) member publication Eos. AGU and Colin have been kind enough…
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What 1 hour of Deep-Sea Vent Life Looks Like in 2 Minutes
Our friends at Neptune Canada have posted this time-lapse video on their Youtube Page. Note the zillions of sea spiders (Pycnogonids), this is a feature…
View More What 1 hour of Deep-Sea Vent Life Looks Like in 2 MinutesJanet Voight: In 1860s “Educated People Could Not Envision” Life on the Seafloor
Dr. Janet Voight of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago talks about exploring deep sea ecosystems and her research on deep sea marine…
View More Janet Voight: In 1860s “Educated People Could Not Envision” Life on the SeafloorFirst New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878
What hid’st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells? Thou hollow-sounding and mysterious main! – Pale glistening pearls, and rainbow-colour’d shells, Bright things which gleam unreck’d-of,…
View More First New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878On Our Radar: Deep-Sea Mining
Deep-sea mining as been our radar for awhile. Now it’s on NYT’s Green Blog. Put it on yours. The Chinese government announces plans for deep-sea mining;…
View More On Our Radar: Deep-Sea MiningExpedition to Find “Oases of Life” on Mid-Cayman Rise
[mappress] Follow a new expedition to discover, document and dive on the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center. The R/V Cape Hatteras left port here at Duke Marine…
View More Expedition to Find “Oases of Life” on Mid-Cayman Rise