Open House
This Saturday July 19, 2008 from 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. is the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s Open House. If you are in central…
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TGIF: Cuttlefish Edition
Guess who is the Encyclopedia of Life’s biodiversity of the week?? The cuttlefish!! Diver: “awww wookit da purdy wittle squidy!” Cuttlefish: “Who you calling a…
Best of DSN 2007
Best Photo (Ansel Adams On Ship Award): Again in the peace loving, utopia that is DSN…we are all winners. International Polar Year Scaly Foot Radiolaria…
Steve O'Shea Is My Friend Not Yours!
In the Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique, I justed moved above PZ. It was bound to happen sooner…
Steve O’Shea Is My Friend Not Yours!
In the Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique, I justed moved above PZ. It was bound to happen sooner…
Weekend Foolishness
During “Friday Night Discussion”, aka pizza and pitchers, a question was posed. Which is prettier, Britney Spears or the Kraken? OR
Just Science Weekend: Gadid Fish
Deep-sea cod (family Gadidae) are “one of the most important families of fishes in the deep-sea”. Their deep siblings include pollock and hake. Pollock is what they use to make fake crab legs in the Subway seafood salad. It’s packaged as sarimi, a strange white Asian boloney. Sarimi fishermen catch pollock with bottom trawls off Alaska, and press the meat into a white pressed sausage stained with bright colors in the sliced meat section at the Vietnamese grocery. Check it out sometime.
The Jellyfish are Watching
I study deep-corals (gorgonians mostly) but I am fascinated by all things cnidarian (sea anemones, hydroids, jellyfish, corals). These are suspension feeders that filter food…