Ecology & Zoology

Celebrate Squid Babies

My paper on Squid Babies (which started out as a dissertation chapter) just got accepted! Well, technically it's Accepted with Revisions, which, for the non-academics in the room, means my co-authors and I have to change a few things before it gets pu ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jul 28 2011 - 1:29pm

Lolplankton

A  comment thread  on my last post has gotten me thinking about the summer of 2009. I lived in La Jolla for a couple of months, sorting baby squid out of old preserved plankton tows, and then trying to identify them. I posted extensively about the experien ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jul 17 2011 - 1:01am

Bioelectric Pattern- Membrane Voltage In Developing Frog Embryo Recorded

Researchers have captured the bioelectrical signals necessary for normal head and facial formation in an organism and  captured the process in a time-lapse video that reveals never-before-seen patterns of visible bioelectrical signals outlining where eyes ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2011 - 2:02pm

I Want To Go To New Zealand

Giant squid are pretty cool, right? If you want to see one (without having to go fishing) then you have a number of museums to choose from. Specimens and models are abundant enough that Indie Squid Kid put together a giant squid tour: Architeuthis Across A ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jul 18 2011 - 2:35pm

Say, Don't Spray

The news finally broke last week, months after the first anxious reports of browning and dying trees near lawns and golf courses across America.  Unlike their wild cousins in the Rockies and British Columbia, these conifers aren’t dying of pest outbreaks – ...

Article - Holly Moeller - Jul 21 2011 - 12:30am

Honk if You Love Invertebrates

I really want a bumper sticker that says that, with this picture: Obviously the news CotS is up! Go check it out at the Artful Amoeba--it is seriously awesome. HONK. ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jul 21 2011 - 9:09pm

Squid Discoveries

A couple of curious squid stories have been peppering my news feed this weekend: First, a dried squid in Hawaii looked enough like a severed hand to get the homicide brigade called out to the beach. Um, creepy! And not particularly squid-like. I think I ag ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jul 24 2011 - 6:14pm

Humboldt Squid in the Atlantic? I Don't Think So.

The famous  Northwest Passage  has become infamous in recent years, as Arctic sea ice coverage shrinks and leaves an open waterway between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. We tend to think of this in terms of what it means for human transport and drill ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jul 27 2011 - 6:24pm

Look To Squid In Hard Economic Times

No, I'm not suggesting that when a recession hits, you should go out and invest in squid fisheries. (But I'm not not saying that. I'm--oh, forget it.) Rather, in the words of my PhD advisor William Gilly: Making good from bad is something th ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jul 28 2011 - 2:07pm

Singing The Dolphin Through

I have always liked dolphins but I can't pinpoint why- maybe it was "Flipper" when I was a kid, it can't be "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" because a whale was saving the Earth in that one.    It could certainly be Manfred Man ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 4 2011 - 9:51am