Some more references

Below is the abstract of a paper by Hirst and Bunker which is a revision of growth rates in relation food, temperature and body weight. Interesting paper for those working in growth rate in the field and in modeling studies.

New paper by Lidia Yebra in Deep-Sea Research I (congratulations Lidia). The publication is related to the mesoscale physical variability and AARS activity of zooplankton as a proxy for growth rate.

Some interesting references

Today, some new references appeared in the literature. Probably, you will identify the interest for your work of every one but I will give some ideas.

Probably somebody working in top-down effects in the ocean would be interested in this paper. This is a clear message.

This paper was sent by Marta Moyano (thank you) and it is an interesting review about recruitment and Hjort´s hypothesis. Important for those interested in fisheries oceanography.

Finally, another interesting paper by Jaspers et al. about metazoan microzooplankton in the Indian Ocean. Interesting for those wishing to know more and more about those tiny organisms, but especially for those thinking about to build an apparatus to concentrate microzooplankton from a Niskin bottle. Somebody has to ask Dr. Jaspers because the description of the toy is not already published.

New Blog for the WG in Biological Oceanography

Dear Luciferinos,

Today I announce the start of a new blog for the biological oceanography working group of the University of Las Palmas. Therefore, I strongly recommend to change to this new blog (biologicaloceanography.blogspot.com), because in a short time we will have access to the different projects of the group and you can easily see if a new entry has been posted and when... In fact, this Lucifer blog is announced right now in the new blog. So, general information will be shown in the biological oceanography blog, while the more specific information about each project will appear in their respective blogs. Long life to the new blog!!

Santiago

Migrations into the Ocean's Interior

Today, an interesting talk by Dr. Mark Ohman (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) about the vertical migrations in the ocean. Look at the audience during the talk. The same problem as in our Universities. Where are the young people? Perhaps, watching talks in internet.

Deep Sea Part IV

Below the part IV of the deep sea movie.

Blue Planet Deep Sea Part III

For information, I post the english version of the Lucifer project in the Top Secret section of this blog (only for those who have permission). This is a way to access the project by internet.

Today, we continue with the Blue Planet chapter about the Deep Sea soap opera. Enjoy the video.

Losing my time

Inma Herrera sent to us from Germany a very interesting review about growth rates in zooplankton. It is a long paper, full of references and all the data reviewed about zooplankton growth rates in the appendix. Important for all the people working in the field.



And now, the part II of the Blue Planet video about the "Dwellers of Darkness" (nice name for a band of rock and roll). Impressive. See the nice pictures of the flashing copepods.



Finally, somebody in the lab said yesterday that this blog is my way to lose my time. Now, I wonder if I am happy losing my time and the answer is... yes!! So, for him the video of Crazy Train (nothing related to Theodore) and his song "Losing my time".

Blue Planet Deep Sea Part I

Today I would like to remember old times. Lutz Postel invite Javier and me to a cruise on board the research vessel "Alexander von Humboldt" in September 1989. We performed a transect through the tropical Atlantic sampling from primary production to zooplankton metabolism. Some of the results were published (see the abstract below) but the most important was the time we lived. We were in a vessel of the former German Democratic Republic about two months before the Wall disappeared forever. I remember the discussions about the future of socialism. Nobody expected that the comunist system would finish in a few months. As a souvenir of those days, I post some photographs here.

Because of the Javier´s shape, you can imagine that food was not appropriate for a long cruise.

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Yes, I will not change anymore.

The photographer was worst than me.

The only girl on board

And the promised abstract.


Now, a nice video (part I is 10 min) about the animals which promote the lunar cycles we are studying. This an impressive document about the "dwellers of darkness". Compulsory for the members of the Lucifer Team.