Its summertime folks, and it seems like everyone is either heading out to sea, or returning from a recent expedition. If not that, its a…
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Tubeworms with Really Big…
…ranges. Yesterday, at Evolution 2009 I also attended the talk of Maria Miglietta from KZ’s old stomping grounds. Maria discussed work on species geographic boundaries…
View More Tubeworms with Really Big…Meet the new DSN field correspondent
I’d like to introduce my friend and colleague Michael Reuscher, he’s a first year PhD student in the Biodiversity and Conservation Laboratory of Dr. Tom…
View More Meet the new DSN field correspondentDo Vent Crabs Do It Under the Gyre?
[googlemap lat=”-37.5″ lng=”-110.5″ width=”500px” height=”300px” zoom=”3″ type=”G_HYBRID_MAP”]Pacific-Antarctic Ridge[/googlemap] Vent crabs live in the dark depths of the ocean. Previous studies have shown that the vent…
View More Do Vent Crabs Do It Under the Gyre?Sex At Vents: Lights On or Off?
Post by Jon Copley. Dr. Jon Copley is a lecturer in marine ecology at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. He is also director…
View More Sex At Vents: Lights On or Off?Amazing Growing Deep-Sea Volcano
When put in water, volcanoes may increase in size From National Geographic: The science team, led by Bill Chadwick of Oregon State University, reports the…
View More Amazing Growing Deep-Sea VolcanoAround the net…
Bloom carbon won’t sink Scientists studying the fate of carbon particles originating in Southern Ocean plankton blooms find that the carbon never reaches the deep…
View More Around the net…Kevin Zelnio…New and Improved…Now With 30% More Shrimp!
KZ is now among the scientifically published. Occurring this week in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington is “A new species of Alvinocaris…
View More Kevin Zelnio…New and Improved…Now With 30% More Shrimp!Thriving In Extreme Conditions
…takes more than a Red Bull. You got to have the right metabolic pathways. NSF highlights the work of Samantha Joye of the University of…
View More Thriving In Extreme ConditionsOcean 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…
View More Ocean Acidification, Not Good For Living