Act 1: Wood Falling on Water At two miles below the ocean’s surface, I see wooden carcasses, once buoyant, lying listlessly on the abyssal seafloor.…
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Janet 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…
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A deep-sea crab walks into a pub and asked, “Where’s the bar tender?” Few deep-sea organisms rely on food originally from land. Most deep-sea dwellers rely…
View More Wood, It’s What’s For DinnerA Nudi on David’s Wood
David is a graduate student in my lab. He wants to know what types of animals colonize wood and whale bones in the deep sea…
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