Christina Kellogg invited me to give a seminar at the joint USGS/University of Southern Florida College of Marine Science. Overall I think the talk went…
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Bones Taste Good
Not just whale bones but all bones. Osedax worms are those bone-eating snot flowers, purveyor of all rotten and whale-like, masters of polyandry, and more…
View More Bones Taste GoodReal Time Dissertation
We at DSN try to report on the research as it happens. Now we report on research before it happens! DSN’s old whipping boy Kevin…
View More Real Time DissertationSaba Road
People once believed “The Road” could not be built on Saba Island until civil engineer Josephus Lambert Hassell took a correspondence course in engineering and organized a crew of locals to start construction in 1938.
View More Saba RoadTime-lapse camera recovered from seafloor
A team of marine biologists, geologists, and oceanographers studying chemosynthetic communities around hydrocarbon seeps aboard the Deep Slope Expedition 2007 research vessel RV Ron Brown…
View More Time-lapse camera recovered from seafloorDeep Coral Gardens
The Alvin submersible dives on the New England Seamount chain found plentiful coral colonys of whip coral, parasol coral, and beautiful spiraling Iridogorgia. These coral…
View More Deep Coral GardensFriday Deep-Sea Picture (06/08/07): Tubeworms
An undescribed species of Lamellibrachia, some with their red plumes extended out of their tubes. Image from NOAA Ocean Explorer and courtesy of AquaPix, Erik…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (06/08/07): TubewormsFrom The Desk of Zelnio: New Geophysical Study May Point The Direction To New Vent Discoveries
Perspective view of East Pacific Rise and the seismic velocity structure of the underlying mantle. Surprisingly, regions of magma storage in the mantle (shown as…
View More From The Desk of Zelnio: New Geophysical Study May Point The Direction To New Vent DiscoveriesBrine Pools
Laser line scan mosaic of a pool of brine surrounded by mussels at a depth of 700 meters in the Gulf of Mexico. From here.…
View More Brine PoolsArctic mounds have gassy past
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) scientists working in the Arctic Ocean unraveled the geological origin of many mysterious mounds, called “pingos”, off Canada’s north coast. Pingos are small, dome-shaped, ice-cored hills about 40m tall, found along the coast of the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula. Earlier studies claimed these features were formed on land, and then submerged when sea level rose following the end of the last ice age, over 10,000 years ago. Apparently, the reverse may be true.
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