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A ship built by the CIA for a secret Cold War mission in 1974 to raise a sunken Soviet sub is heading to the scrap yard, a victim of the slide in oil prices. 
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Video footage shows a delicate, transparent animal with a doglike head more than five miles down.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
New snailfish is getting ton of press...even though no samples were taken.
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Below is a list of some potential projects and mentors. This list will be updated, so please bookmark and check this page from time to time. Clearly identifying a specific research interest/area is an important part of your application and is essential in the application process. Please contact George Matsumoto if you have any questions. Links to the mentors' home pages have been provided (when available) so that you can learn more about the various mentors, please DO NOT contact the mentor directly. Applications should include * A cover letter that states your specific research interests (and which project you are applying for), complete contact information, relevant coursework and grades received.
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For those of you who toured MBARI with us this past week, John Ryan (the Passive Acoustic Monitoring project listed here) was the guy leading our overall tour.
Several of these projects look great.
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Resting deep on the seabed of the Pacific are two symbols of oceanic politics, one decaying as time ticks by; the other slowly growing at a pace measured in millions of years.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Here is a summary of the story I mentioned in class on Tuesday.
See the CIA's take:
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb305/doc01.pdf
as well as:
http://io9.com/that-time-the-cia-and-howard-hughes-tried-to-steal-a-so-1561583789
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=940DE7DE123AE034BC4F51DFB566838E669EDE
I first heard this story by reading the great "Blind Man's Bluff" novel about 15 years ago:
http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage-ebook/dp/B0089EMLGK
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Bubble streams off the U.S. East Coast could be methane-rich ices warming and releasing the potent greenhouse gas
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Hmmmm...this doesn't sound too good. I would like to see the data, though.
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From
io9
For some, the irony is almost too much to bear. While Congress is eager to fund a $2 billion expedition to search for oceans beneath Europa, some 95% of Earth's oceans are unexplored. Given the role of oceans in regulating climate, and their untapped potential for food and health, is it time to rethink our priorities?
PIRatE Lab's insight:
I am never too comfortable when we start saying we need to fund scientific endeavor #2 rather than endeavor #1. Such things often seem to devolve into a popularity contest with exploration and discovery marginalized in a sea of pandering or self-serving assertions.
But there are certainly some well made points here by Mark Strauss, playing off of the arguments proffered by Michael Conathan a few months back. Give it a run through.
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‘Deepsea Challenge 3D’ blends Movie Director James Cameron’s passion for exploration and playing in the sea. Last year was the culmination of his exploration technology and deep sea diving desire He funded much of it with proceeds from his previous film making, sponsors, and contracts to make documentaries like this.
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Welcome to NOAA's Deep-Sea Coral Data Portal
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NOAA has launched the Deep-Sea Coral Data Portal (https://deepseacoraldata.noaa.gov/) to better serve the data needs of ocean resource managers and scientists. The Data Portal has a map displaying the distribution of more than 300,000 deep-sea corals and sponges. This is the most comprehensive collection of deep-sea coral and sponge records in U.S. waters. It is built on the National Database for Deep-Sea Corals and Sponges maintained by NOAA’s Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program.
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A new report reviews the past, present, and future of ocean animals.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Nothing new here, but a nice packaging and articulation of what many of us worry about.
It is still interesting to note that most of the public still see pollution as the biggest threat (by far) compared to other stressors.
The original paper is here:
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A rare black seadevil was captured for the first time on video in Monterey Canyon earlier this month, and it's a bizarre creature.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Deepest video recording of a deep sea anglerfish. Cool video check it out. She is only ~9 cm total length, but is still cool.
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This is a guest post by Chelsea Rochman. Chelsea is a post-doc at the University of California Davis. This is her fourth guest post at DSN, and the first one to Via AimForGood
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The world's oceans are vast and deep, yet rapidly advancing technology and the quest for extracting resources from previously unreachable depths is beginning to put the deep seas on the cusp of peril, an international team of scientists has warned.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
An interesting related note is here:
Wherein we have yet another example of the diversity we know little of down deep. This study offers the first glimpse of a deep-sea octopus brooding its eggs for four-and-a-half years. That is waaaaaay longer than any other known animal. Throughout this time, the female kept the eggs clean and guarded them from predators. This takes parental investment to a whole new level for an invert!
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According to a Google engineer, the company has to wrap its undersea fiber optics cable in kevlar to protect them against shark attacks.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Hmmm...this is probably nothing more than the elasmobranchs sensing some corrosion or general signal traffic electromagnetic fields. Interesting in any event.
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Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski is asking McDonald’s to stand down on an issue that could impact the long-term availability of one of its signature products — the Filet-O-Fish sandwich, according to Lance Morgan, president of the Marine Conservation Institute (MCI). These canyons — Zhemchug and Pribilof — are the largest underwater canyons in the world and occur along the fruitful, yet totally unprotected, Green Belt zone.
“Comments urging precautionary protection for the canyons have come from a broad coalition of NGOs, together with more than 130,000 individuals, indigenous stakeholders, independent scientists, Seattle businesses, and even some of our nation’s largest supermarket chains,” writes Morgan.
Safeway, Trader Joe’s, SuperValue, Ahold USA and HyVee have all sent letters urging protection for the canyons, and other companies, including McDonald’s, have communicated their concerns directly to the fishing industry, he claimed.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
You know the heat is starting to get cranked up on the efforts to set aside some of the Bering Sea under a new MPA umbrella when Senators start sending e-mails asking businesses to ignore the campaign.
See: http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2014/08/01/mcdonalds-murkowski/
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/Bering_Sea_Canyons_NOAA_seminar.pdf
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/stories/2013/06/6_11_13b_sea_canyons.html
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