We have a long history of being HUGE fans of the “bone-devouring zombie worm from hell”. Osedax species were described less than 10 years ago…
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A Tale of Germanic Chieftains and Deep-Sea Corals
The year is 9CE. Fourteen years later Pliny the Elder will be Pliny the Newly Born. Cai Lun will invent paper one hundred years later.…
View More A Tale of Germanic Chieftains and Deep-Sea CoralsFinding Our Deep Blue Home
If you are looking a fact-based text on the ecology the oceans, Deep Blue Home is not for you. If you are interested in the…
View More Finding Our Deep Blue HomeA 21st century view of Marine Biology
So you wanna be a marine biologist in the 21st century? Better crack open that MacBook and start writing perl scripts. As part of our…
View More A 21st century view of Marine BiologyDeep-sea additions to the Nematode Tree of Life
Sometimes I am stunned by the vastness of the internet, as well as the brief 15-nanoseconds of fame that go along with most of its…
View More Deep-sea additions to the Nematode Tree of LifeDSN Scientist In Residence Jarrett Byrnes On Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
In my last post, I showed that ocean food webs are being re-written by human driven extinctions and invasions. In particular, most species that have…
View More DSN Scientist In Residence Jarrett Byrnes On Biodiversity and Ecosystem FunctionScientist In Residence Jarrett Brynes: How Are Extinctions and Invasions Shaping Food Webs?
February’s Scientist In Residence that I am way behind on introducing is Jarrett Byrnes, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and…
View More Scientist In Residence Jarrett Brynes: How Are Extinctions and Invasions Shaping Food Webs?Oceans Past: What Do We Know About Them
Poul Holm describes why understanding history is important in marine ecology. Holm is currently chair of the global History of Marine Animal Populations project (HMAP)…
View More Oceans Past: What Do We Know About ThemDeep-Sea Creatures Play in the Same Band
I am really loving the new paper by O’Hara et al. The gist is we typically think of the different oceans having unique sets of…
View More Deep-Sea Creatures Play in the Same BandRed Means Go: Coral, Color, and Climate Change
One of the defining decision points of life: Settle-down and make a living close to the familiar particulars of your birthplace or venture out to…
View More Red Means Go: Coral, Color, and Climate Change