MBARI in the news – 2005
Dec 27 | Associated Press, “Maine ocean floor has mud-trapped gas” |
Dec 14 | Discovery of egg-brooding squid (University of Rhode Island news release; MBARI Homepage story) – News@Nature, “Broody squid keep young in hand” by Michael Hopkin (12-14-05) – Live Science, “The Heavy Burden of a Mother Squid” by Bjorn Carey (12-14-05) – San Francisco Chronicle, “Maternal nature of squids Females spotted hauling heavy pouches of eggs” by Keay Davidson (12-15-05) – BBC News, “First images of baby squid care” (12-15-05) – Associated Press, “Mama squids found to exhibit surprising maternal behavior” (12-15-05) – New Scientist, “Broody squid carry their eggs in their arms” by Shaoni Bhattacharya (12-15-05) – New York Times, “Scientists’ discovery in the deep casts some squid mothers in a better light” by William J. Broad (12-20-05) |
Dec 5 | Monterey Herald, “A light show from the sea” by Karen Ravn |
Dec 2-8 | Carmel Pine Cone, “Jellyfish season creates fascination for most, problems for power plant” by Kelly Nix |
Nov 27 | PhysOrg.com, “Unmanned submersible sheds light on an undersea volcano“ |
Nov 27 | Monterey Herald, “Shedding light on watery dark” by Julie Rehmeyer |
Nov 12 | New Scientist, “The Deep” (special section) |
Nov 7 | Design News, “Remote Control Explorations” by Al Presher |
Nov 7 | Honolulu Star Bulletin, “UH ocean scientist David Karl honored” by Star-Bulletin staff |
Nov 5 | National Public Radio, “Satellite Spots ‘Glowing’ Ocean” by John Nielsen |
Nov 2 | Science News for kids, “Fishing for Giant Squid” by Emily Sohn |
Nov/Dec | Scientriffic, “Snack on a snot house” by Kimiko Holder |
November | Nautilus, “La Baie Des Merveilles” |
November | IEEE Spectrum, “Neptune Rising” by Peter Fairley |
November | Natural History, “It’s snot raining” by Rebecca E. Kessler |
Oct 28 | Watsonville Register Pajaronian, “MBARI places 18-foot high-tech buoy in the Monterey Bay” by Laura Norton |
Oct 22 | Wired News, “Visionaries Float Big Ideas” by Mark Anderson |
Oct 17 | Santa Cruz Sentinel, “Scientists tackle underwater fault” by Brian Seals |
Oct 4 | Live Science, “Mystery Ocean Glow Confirmed in Satellite Photos” by Robert Roy Britt |
Oct 1 | San Jose Mercury, “A glowing ‘milky sea’ documented” by Glennda Chui |
October | Discover Magazine, “20,000 probes under the sea” by Clive Thompson Also: “Seafloor food source identified” by Megan Mansell Williams |
Sept/Oct | E Magazine, “Whale falls—It’s not just a carcass, it’s dinner” by Kieran Mulvaney |
Sept 27 | ABC News (AP), “Scientists photograph giant squid in wild” by Hiroko Tabuchi |
Sept 23 | PhysOrg.com (UPI), “A unique marine symbiosis is studied“ |
Sept | The Science Teacher, “Education and Research: Testing Hypotheses (EARTH)” by Susan Cady |
Aug 16 | Christian Science Monitor, “A day in the life of a marine scientist” by Keely Parrack |
Aug 7 | Monterey County Herald, “The Herald’s View—Undersea cable will expand ocean research” |
Aug 4 | Monterey County Weekly, “Ghost Ship” [Wreck of the USS Macon] by Ryan Masters |
July 30 | Monterey Herald, “Getting to bottom of deep-sea science” by Rachel Kane |
July 22 | Monterey Herald (AP), “Strange weather disrupts marine ecosystems along Pacific Coast” by Terence Chea |
July 5 | Contra Costa Times, “Odd weather good for some animals, bad for others” by Denis Cuff |
July 7 | News release: Deep-sea jelly uses glowing red lures to catch fish – Nature, “Jellyfish capture prey with crimson bait” by Tom Simonite (7-7-05) – Mercury News, “Scientists find jelly sea creature that hangs out the red light” by Glennda Chui (7-7-05) – San Francisco Chronicle, “ Bright lights lure prey in deep sea” by David Perlman (7-8-05) – CNN, “Jellyfish lures dinner with flashing red light” by Marsha Walton (7-7-05) – National Geographic News, “Blind sea creature hunts with light” by David Braun (7-7-05) – Associated Press, “Red light-flashing jellyfish lures in prey off California coast” (7-7-05) – United Press International, “Deep-sea jelly uses glowing lures” (7-8-05) – Discovery News, “Secret lights discovered in deep sea” by Larry O’Hanlon (7-8-05) – BBC News, “ Deep-sea animal hunts with light” (7-11-05) – New York Times, “Cousin of the jellyfish spurs fresh theories on seeing red” by William J. Broad (7-12-05) – New Scientist, “Deep-sea fish lured by red-light district” (7-16-05) |
July | Geotimes, “Marcia McNutt: Oceangoing geophysicist” by Naomi Lubick |
June 9 | News release: “Sinkers” provide missing piece in deep-sea puzzle – Nature, “Giant balls of mucus fertilize the ocean” by Nicola Jones (6-9-05) – San Francisco Chronicle, “Mucus-producing sea creatures key to underwater food chain” by Keay Davidson (6-10-05) – Live Science, “Giant Balls of ‘Snot’ Explain Ocean Mystery” by Bjorn Carey (6-10-05) – Discovery News, “Giant mucus balls feed oceans” by Larry O’Hanlon (6-13-05) – New York Times, “Low-Cost housing, but slimy” by Henry Fountain (6-14-05) |
May 23 | Monterey Herald, “Queen of Skies—Dirigible crash off Big Sur detailed at Monterey museum” by Joe Livernois |
May 22 | Monterey Herald, “Reinventing the iron anchor” by Susan D. Brown |
May 21 | Santa Cruz Sentinel, “Sunken blimp draws marine researchers” by Brian Seals |
May 6 | Monterey Herald, “McNutt joins science academy” |
Apr 23 | Monterey Herald, “Pesticides make harbor a toxic soup” by Virginia Hennessey |
Apr 21 | Advanced Imaging Magazine, “Video data turns into knowledge” by Leonard A. Hindus |
Apr 5 | Our Ocean World, “Riddled with Worms” |
Apr 5 | Santa Cruz Sentinel, “Power cable for ocean seen as boon to research” by Brian Seals |
Apr 1 | NPR – Morning Edition, “Proposal to fight global warming may threaten oceans” by David Malakoff |
April | Popular Science, “Wiring the briny deep” by Joshua Tompkins |
Mar 18 | Los Angeles Times, “Squid Land on Scientists’ Plate” by Claudia Zequeira |
Mar 10 | Monterey County Weekly, “Real Sea Monsters” by Ryan Masters |
Mar 6 | Monterey Herald, “Monterey Bay full of potentially harmful algae” by Andreas von Bubnoff |
Mar/April | Zoogoer, “A Whale of a Tale” by Robin Meadows |
Feb 14 | Honolulu Advertiser, “Corals tell of climate changes” by Jan TenBruggencate |
Feb 9 | Nature, “Marine Biology: Whale fall” by Amanda Haag |
Feb 8 | Santa Cruz Sentinel, “Strange worms found devouring whale bones in deep sea” by Susan D. Brown |
Feb | National Geographic, “Ladies lunch” (whale-fall worms)” by Joel Achenbach |
Feb | Outside, “No man’s land” (article on MARS project) by Steven Kotler |
Jan 22 | Monterey Herald, “Stranded squid puzzle scientists” by Hannah Hickey |
Jan 20 | LiveScience, “A New Calamari Counter” |
Jan 19 | MSNBC, “Ancient sunken islands found off California” by Bjorn Carey |
Jan 19 | Monterey Herald, “Researchers studying effects of carbon dioxide on ocean” by Tonya Clayton |
Jan 16 | Monterey Herald, “Live fish from the ocean floor” by Hannah Hickey |
Jan 16 | Washington Post, “Seamounts offer marine life peaks of viands” by Cheryl Dybas |
Jan 1 | Science News, “Hidden canyons” by Sid Perkins |
Jan | Discover, “Weird worms feast on whale bones” (Highlighted in Top 100 science stories of 2004) by Megan Mansell Williams |