Craig is temporarily a post-doctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who is looking for a permanent position. He spends most of his time balancing his overwhelming geekdom with normalcy so he can function in the real world. Luckily his wife likes his geekiness.
Peter Etnoyer is a Graduate Research Associate at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M; University-Corpus Christi. He studies deep corals and ocean fronts, and he loves to be on the water.
Kevin Zelnio is a Graduate Student Researcher at Penn State studying the ecology of hydrothermal vent and methane seep communities. He raises awareness of the plight of the spineless through folk music.
The last few days have been hell! My happy Intel Mac is sick and I have been computerless until this afternoon. If that hasn't been enought there are crazy bioluminescent squid lurking in the deep and everyone covers it before me. Our streak of reporting deep-sea news before everyone else died today. With a tear in my eye, I say sorry.
But back to crazy squid! The Japanese do it again and capture a squid on video. This time is Taningia danae a pelagic squid. (~55-900m). Interesting thing about T. danae, other than bioluminescence, is that as adults both tentacles are lost. The tips of arms II are broadened and contain photophores that can be covered with protective lid. They can get quite large, up to 1.7m for the mantle length. The videos are excellent and show the individual swimming and attacking bate.
