BlueFin Tuna Bait Ball: National Geo.:
Catching GinatTuna National Geographjic:
Wall Street Journal Reports:
Paul Watson on NABFT:
Record Sale: $396,000:
All-Time Record:
CBS News: NOAA:
PEW Trusts:
Greenpeace:
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Neptune Canada's Channel
Grotto Hydrothermal Vent in 2 Minutes:
March of the Sea Pigs:
Water Column Creatures:
School of Sunfish:
Deep Sea Octopus:
Batman of the Deep:
Brittle Star Food Fight:
Videos from the sea-floor: underwater life, technology, exploration and research in the northeast Pacific Ocean near Canada's Vancouver Island.
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As part of Ocean Networks Canada, we are building the worlds first regional-scale underwater cabled ocean network that plugs directly into the Internet. People everywherecan surf the seafloor, while ocean scientists run deep-water experiments from labs and universities anywhere around the world.
March of the Sea Pigs:
Water Column Creatures:
School of Sunfish:
Deep Sea Octopus:
Batman of the Deep:
Brittle Star Food Fight:
Videos from the sea-floor: underwater life, technology, exploration and research in the northeast Pacific Ocean near Canada's Vancouver Island.
ABOUT US
As part of Ocean Networks Canada, we are building the worlds first regional-scale underwater cabled ocean network that plugs directly into the Internet. People everywherecan surf the seafloor, while ocean scientists run deep-water experiments from labs and universities anywhere around the world.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Deep Sea News' Dr. M & Miriam Swim the Largest Tank!
Marine biologists and Deep Sea News bloggers Miriam Goldstein and Dr. Craig McClain SCUBA diving in the Ocean Voyager exhibit at Georgia Aquarium:
Starlings in Amazing Flight
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive:
From Wired Science:
Video of a massive starling flock turning and twisting over a river in Ireland has gone viral, and with good reason. Flocking starlings are one of nature’s most extraordinary sights: Just a few hundred birds moving as one is enough to convey a sense of suspended reality, and the flock filmed above the River Shannon contained thousands.
What makes possible the uncanny coordination of these murmurations, as starling flocks are so beautifully known? Until recently, it was hard to say. Scientists had to wait for the tools of high-powered video analysis and computational modeling. And when these were finally applied to starlings, they revealed patterns known less from biology than cutting-edge physics.
Starling flocks, it turns out, are best described with equations of “critical transitions” — systems that are poised to tip, to be almost instantly and completely transformed, like metals becoming magnetized or liquid turning to gas. Each starling in a flock is connected to every other. When a flock turns in unison, it’s a phase transition.
At the individual level, the rules guiding this are relatively simple. When a neighbor moves, so do you. Depending on the flock’s size and speed and its members’ flight physiologies, the large-scale pattern changes. What’s complicated, or at least unknown, is how criticality is created and maintained.
It’s easy for a starling to turn when its neighbor turns — but what physiological mechanisms allow it to happen almost simultaneously in two birds separated by hundreds of feet and hundreds of other birds? That remains to be discovered, and the implications extend beyond birds. Starlings may simply be the most visible and beautiful example of a biological criticality that also seems to operate in proteins and neurons, hinting at universal principles yet to be understood.
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.
From Wired Science:
Video of a massive starling flock turning and twisting over a river in Ireland has gone viral, and with good reason. Flocking starlings are one of nature’s most extraordinary sights: Just a few hundred birds moving as one is enough to convey a sense of suspended reality, and the flock filmed above the River Shannon contained thousands.
What makes possible the uncanny coordination of these murmurations, as starling flocks are so beautifully known? Until recently, it was hard to say. Scientists had to wait for the tools of high-powered video analysis and computational modeling. And when these were finally applied to starlings, they revealed patterns known less from biology than cutting-edge physics.
Starling flocks, it turns out, are best described with equations of “critical transitions” — systems that are poised to tip, to be almost instantly and completely transformed, like metals becoming magnetized or liquid turning to gas. Each starling in a flock is connected to every other. When a flock turns in unison, it’s a phase transition.
At the individual level, the rules guiding this are relatively simple. When a neighbor moves, so do you. Depending on the flock’s size and speed and its members’ flight physiologies, the large-scale pattern changes. What’s complicated, or at least unknown, is how criticality is created and maintained.
It’s easy for a starling to turn when its neighbor turns — but what physiological mechanisms allow it to happen almost simultaneously in two birds separated by hundreds of feet and hundreds of other birds? That remains to be discovered, and the implications extend beyond birds. Starlings may simply be the most visible and beautiful example of a biological criticality that also seems to operate in proteins and neurons, hinting at universal principles yet to be understood.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
National Geographic Capturing Bioluminescence & MBARI's Selections!
MBARI's Locomotion in the Deep:
MBARI's California Hydrothermal Vents:
MBARI's Eerie Critters of the Deep
MBARI'sAnthology of Deep Sea Squids:
MBARI's Vampire Squid:
Macropinna:
MBARI's Humboldt Squid:
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