New from the WWF:
I’m Eric and I’m a Hammerhead Shark.
As an extremely adapted predator, you use your oddly shaped head to increase your ability to find prey. Your eyes and nostrils are located on both ends of your hammer shaped head. Your vertebrae are especially designed for quick turns and maneuvering. Ranging in size [...]
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We’re making progress. All the plants are being chosen by Tammy to attract butterflies, bees and similar pollinators. The lower garden (a shade garden) is designed to be a refuge for birds with fresh water and open dirt for bathing. Tammy I’m sure will create a more in depth entry on our [...]
The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) ROV Competition is an annual competition of High School and undergraduate college teams to design an underwater ROV and complete a simulated mission using their ROV in a controlled environment (think swimming pool). This year the mission (pdf) was to deploy an ROV to a hydrothermal vent [...]
I’m currently out on the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster, working for NURC but thought I would throw out a quick hello and a picture for everyone…
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cetecea
Sub Order: Mysticeti
Family: Balaenopteridae
Genus: Megaptera
Species: Megaptera novaeangliae
Rest — Notice the swallow behind and to the left of the boys.
Originally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
Last weekend we went to the Mystic Seaport’s 29th Annual Sea Music Festival, (more on the music later) we all had a blast at the festival and Johann had a grand time. One of the things he always wants [...]
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Originally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
Tammy and I figured out a potentially cheap way to make our own little plankton tow which we could use to make monthly or biweekly plankton community surveys. Real plankton tow nets run $150+ for a small one (I’m hoping we can “buy” one off a pair of retiring professors). We [...]
The rarest rhino in the world, one that is under ever increasing pressure, was video taped by a low light video camera….
Kiribaiti doesn’t have the luxury of climate change denial, and they are sending the rest of the world a wake-up call.
The president of Kiribati, Anote Tong, announced that century old villages had to be relocated, “Where they have been living over the past few decades is no longer there, it is being eroded.” Every other [...]
Monarch Caterpillar
Originally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
This was from a few years ago, but it relates to today as well. It is a late instar monarch caterpillar (Danaus plexippus) about 10 of which Johann raised as a summer project. The hardest part was finding their food. The caterpillars eat milkweeds, which, being weeds, most people [...]
I’m ready for my closeup Mr. DeMille!
Originally uploaded by eclectic echoes.
Or if you prefer..,
“We’re watching you!!”
or maybe “Let your conscience be your guide….but screw up and it’s an invert in your ear!”
With a flash and all three of my extension tubes (68mm) on the 100mm macro lens, I was able to get this shot. It [...]
