Cruise: Costa Rican Deep Sea Connections
The deep sea is home to a variety of understudied, otherworldly ecosystems that are in need of human understanding if they are to have any protection from encroaching deep sea fishing and mining activities.
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Log Post: Backyard Deep – Week One Video
Hundreds of meters below the surface of the ocean, where sunlight does not reach, researchers are finding communities as biologically dense as rainforests. Find out about the tools scientists are using to discover and learn about the methane seeps just off the coast of California.
Person: Lisa Levin
Lisa Levin is a Distinguished Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, and served as the Director for the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation from 2011-2017. Levin received her B.S. from Radcliffe College and earned her Ph.D. at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Following 9 years as a professor at North … Continued
Person: Jorge Cortés-Núñez
Jorge Cortés-Núñez is a researcher at the Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR-Marine Science and Limnology Research Center) and professor at the School of Biology, both at the Universidad de Costa Rica. He has a B.Sc. in Biology from the Universidad de Costa Rica, a M.Sc. in Geology from McMaster University … Continued
Person: Oliver S. Ashford
Oliver is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. After completing his undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge (2011), and master’s degree in Taxonomy and Biodiversity at Imperial College, London (2012), Oliver defended his PhD in Deep-Sea Ecology at the University of Oxford in 2017. … Continued
Person: Shannon Dwyer
Shannon Dwyer is currently an undergraduate student studying Biology at Temple University class of 2020. Shannon joined the Cordes Lab in early 2018 and has been helping out a graduate student, April Stabbins, with her project of DNA barcoding different species of crustaceans. After undergrad, she plans to further her studies and pursue PhD.
Person: Alon Philosof
Alon Philosof is interested in the ecological role of viruses (mainly phages) in the marine environment. Globally, viruses constitute a large and abundant biomass, and are the second largest biomass in the oceans, exceeded only by the total biomass of bacteria. He is especially interested in understanding the temporal and spatial dynamics of host-phage interactions … Continued
Person: Beatriz Naranjo-Elizondo
Beatriz Naranjo-Elizondo is a research assistant at the Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR-Marine Science and Limnology Research Center), University of Costa Rica. She has a B.Sc. in Biology from the Universidad de Costa Rica, same institution where she got a Lic. in Biology with emphasis in Zoology. She has published … Continued
Log Post: Mechanical Muse
Leighton Rolley – one of the lead marine technicians on R/V Falkor – has a reputation for wild ideas. When he suggested I use the manipulator arm on our Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV SuBastian) to make a painting, I did not want to get my hopes up that such a unique opportunity might be possible. … Continued
Log Post: Hard Questions
At the end of another long work day, I empty my pockets: zip ties, a hex wrench, miscellaneous combination wrenches, tubes of o-ring lubricant, several gloves (bizarrely, an odd number), rolls of electrical tape, various wires, nuts and washers, and a couple candy wrappers. This odd collection of tools and materials illustrates the science I … Continued
