Last week we went to Providence for two science conferences. I had fun. I sat in on some really neat talks. One was about lobster larvae and another was about Alaskan oyster farming. I ate mussels. I worked behind the front desk. We went to the beach party and had fun playing all the games [...]
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Last week was very busy for us here. I volunteered to help out one of the people at the University who was in charge of organizing and putting on the NSA conference and the Benthic Ecology Meeting which were held back to back in Providence. Ostensibly I was supposed to be there primarily for IT [...]
It looks like both Dad and I have some new digital real estate.
My father is a professional photographer and now has a web site to show some of his works. I love his bear series of photographs and hope you will too. The cool thing is that he is also providing some facts and conservation [...]
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There is a meme out there for naming women scientists. Well with Johann’s scientists cards and his love of science history as well as science, we felt like playing along. So here are some of the scientists that we came up with, most of them off the top of our heads:
Lise Meitner - Physics
Shirley Jackson [...]
Monday, February 18, 2008
Ok…if you want to find out what a Caprellid is without the family spin skip to the bottom.
One of the family’s big presents this year was a nice zoom dissecting microscope with a set of 50 metazoan and 50 plant biology classroom slides. Johann and Tammy have been going through a few prepared slides per [...]
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Over the past 20 years the Japanese “Scientific” whaling program has taken between 8,000 and 9,000 whales, including the 1,000 to be taken in this year’s hunt.
A minke whale mother and calf being dragged aboard a Japanese factory whaling ship. Photo AFP
Increasing pressure from Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherd disrupted this years hunt for three [...]
Saturday, February 2, 2008
From Zooilogix’ The Schmidt Sting Pain Index:
Although Schmidt claims he is no masochist, the high cost to low benefit ratio of his research combined with descriptions of his suffering that sound like fine wine reviews make us wonder. Here is a sample from Wikipedia:
1.0 Sweat bee: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has [...]
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
How It All Ends
Watch… then see the complete series at the The Manpollo Project
The Alvin on deployment — one of the submersibles used on the Sea Mounts along with the Hercules and Argustandem ROV system.Image from mpi-bremen.de
From Deep Sea News comes a post that is right on time for me. Deep Sea News is a science blog run by a Post-Doc from MBARI, a research assistant from [...]
