We’re starting to think about scheduling expeditions again to gather data, photos, video, etc. of marine life and issues for marinebio.org. Check out http://marinebio.org/research/expeditions for the possibilities and contact us if you’re interested in joining us.

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Sing along: Much of the ocean is not yet explored Though submarines pootle about the sea floor Discovering new species wherever they go Such as elephant-like-squid and eels that glow. The following formula’s certainly true Of predation dynamics down in the blue: From the tiniest plankton to the biggest species yet, One thing they eat, [...]

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ScienceDaily (Feb. 5, 2011) — Things are not always what they seem when it comes to fish — something scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and the Ocean Science Foundation are finding out. Using modern genetic analysis, combined with traditional examination of morphology, the scientists discovered that what were once thought to be three species of [...]

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Discovered by an international trio of scientists, the lobster, Dinochelus ausubeli, lives in the deep ocean water  near the Phillipines. The lobster has movable, well-developed eyestalks and an inverted T-plate in front of its mouth. But its most striking feature is a mighty claw with a short, bulbous palm and extremely long, spiny fingers for [...]

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Oysters are disappearing from coastlines around the world because of overharvesting and disease, researchers said. An estimated 85 percent of global wild oyster reefs and beds vanished in the past 20 to 130 years, according to a study led by Michael Beck, lead marine scientist at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His team [...]

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I thought I’d share the latest post by David Suzuki and Faisal Moola at the David Suzuki Foundation concerning the recent news about birds dropping dead from the sky and mass fish kills, etc.: Aflockalypse Now: Mass animal die-offs and the ongoing extinction crisis On New Year’s Eve, 5,000 red-winged blackbirds dropped out of the [...]

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Kristina Gjerde, the high-seas policy advisor to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, speaks about the laws governing areas outside the realm of national juridiction—which is most of the ocean.  This is a TED talk. Reposted from Uncharted Atolls. Tagging of Pacific Predators: http://www.topp.org/ Census of Marine Life: http://www.coml.org/ Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative: http://openoceansdeepseas.org/

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Find out October 12-21! Aquarius 2010: If Reefs Could Talk Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live underwater? Well, from October 12-21 you can find out by tuning in to daily broadcasts shot live from an undersea research lab, the only one of its kind in the world. The Aquarius lab [...]

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