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Navy Allows Women on Subs

What started off 2 years ago as a joke by sub enthusiasts, will now be a reality. The Navy has made it clear that it…

Mating & Reproduction Organisms Social Sciences

Ex Omnia Conchis: Darwin and His Beloved Barnacles

Kevin Zelnio February 16, 2010 Archetype Barnacle Best of Zelnio Charles Darwin Cirripedes Cryptophialus Darwin Day Erasmus Darwin evolution Hermaphroditism HMS Beagle Homology John Hooker Lamarck Mr. Arthrobalanus On the Origin of Species Richard Owen Robert Chambers taxonomy Vestiges Zoonomia

As part of Darwin Day on Friday, I gave a brief talk at Duke Marine Lab during happy hour about Darwin and his beloved barnacles.…

Fish New Research Organisms

Deep-Water Origin of Freshwater Eels

Kevin Zelnio February 3, 2010 Anguilla Best of Zelnio Eel evolution Freshwater Eel phylogenetic

Larval eel jaw diversity from Michael Miller 2009 ASMB 2(4): 1-94. There are all sort of eels in this world. Big ones, small ones, gulper…

Ecology Environmental Sciences Industry & Government New Research

‘Safe’ Water-Based Drill Cuttings Affect Seafloor Animals

Kevin Zelnio February 2, 2010 Best of Zelnio Drill Cuttings Drill Mud Drilling Experiment Infauna Mesocosm Sediment Sedimentation suspension feeding

Oil and gas extraction is pervasive among the coasts of the world. In many areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast…

New Research Organisms

(Sieve) Size Matters

Kevin Zelnio October 27, 2009 benthic Best of Zelnio Biomass Community Ecology deep sea Ecology Meiofauna Mesh Methodology RB Editor's Selection Sampling Design Sediment Sieve Species Diversity

Enter the sieve. It is a marine biologists best friend, saving hours of sorting and enabling quantification of fauna. In fact you can get these…

New Research New Species Organisms Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Shrimp Tails: Describing a New Species

Kevin Zelnio August 20, 2009 Alvinocarididae Alvinocaris Alvinocaris komaii Back-Arc Basin Best of Zelnio COI Eastern Lau Spreading Center ELSC fiji Genetics Hydrothermal Vent Lau Basin Morphology Shrimp Systematics taxonomy Tomoyuki Komai

Dr. M was kind enough to mention and congratulate me on my first publication several months back. I just had two more papers published in…

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Deep Sea Corals and Methane Seeps

Kevin Zelnio July 25, 2009 active gas seepage Best of Zelnio Carbon Coral Ecology energy source food chains Gulf of Mexico Lophelia methane Methane Seep Nitrogen Provanna seep Stable Isotope sulfur trophic level

This is a tale of cause and effect in the deep sea woven by threads of hypotheses held together by the loom of targeted sampling…

Adaptations

The “Leathery Turtle”

Kevin Zelnio April 20, 2009 Best of Zelnio chemical signals Dermochelys coriacea food Great Turtle Race Hatching jellyfish Leathback Nesting Nutrition sea turtle swimming Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination

This originally posted here during Megavertabrate Week in 2007. I’m reposting it here in honor of the Great Turtle Race of 2009! Good luck turtles!…

Conferences Fish New Research Organisms

Big Gulpers In The Deep

Kevin Zelnio February 23, 2009 ASLO Baited Camera Traps Best of Zelnio Black Swallower Chiasmodon niger Conference Crustacea Drazen fish Oxygen Minimum Zone Scavenger Snake Mackerel Yeh Zoarcidae

I got the dreaded pop-up of doom as my macbook told me it could not install the latest update because I out of space. So…

Conferences Expeditions Scientist!

Science Online ’09: Blogging Adventure

Kevin Zelnio January 22, 2009 Adventure Best of Zelnio Field Work Live Blogging Research Rick MacPherson Science Online scio09

After a most wonderful lunch (thanks Science Online sponsors!), it was time for the first of two sessions I was co-moderating. This session was a…

Deep Sea News

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