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Here is something I think we all need to know... this network was set to display "featured" blog posts throughout the summer months. This post slid right past me. As you can tell by the lack of commentary... it slid past all of us. This content wa...
ANDROS FIELD STUDY at on three sailboats in the sapphire & turquoise waters of the Bahamas
April 3, 2009 at 12pm to April 11, 2009 at 10pm
Marine Biology field study on Andros Island, Bahamas.
We will fly into Ft. Lauderdale, stay Friday night, then fly out to Andros early on Saturday to spend the week aboard three 45-foot sailboats along the coast of Andros... and the world's third...
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- High School:
- Benton
- The last three CD's I purchased/downloaded were:
- Why don't I just give you a list of my favorite musicians...
...The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Sam Cooke, Eric Clapton, The Rat Pack, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Journey, Classic Rock, Blues, Jazz, Classical, Stevie Ray Vaughan, George Strait, Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Michael Jackson, Elton John, Otis Redding, Simon & Garfunkel, The Righteous Brothers, Pink Floyd, Queen, David Bowie, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Nirvana, Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Jerry Lee Lewis, BB King, T-Bone Walker, Robert Johnson, Son House, Muddy Waters, Robert Cray, Albert King, Freddie King, Buddy Guy, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Woody Guthrie, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Nat King Cole, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven.
- My favorite subject during the regular school day is:
- Zoology
- Extracurricular activities I am involved in at school:
- Tennis
NHS
- My interests (other than school) are:
- Music
Writing/Composing/Making Music
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Mouth Organ, Harp, Trumpet, Saxophone, Flute, Ukulele, Mandolin, Violin
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Silly Little Creatures
Those silly little creatures!
They don't mess with homicide, they dont have any problem with obesity, none of them are addicted to drugs, they dont molest or hinder their offspring, they kill themselves, and they aren't humans...silly little creatures!
When I was a child every time I saw a turtle soon after I would hear a gunshot. "They are bad!," the farmers would say. "I dunt want any of dem stupid little turtuls n' my pond, no!" I was bro… Continue
They don't mess with homicide, they dont have any problem with obesity, none of them are addicted to drugs, they dont molest or hinder their offspring, they kill themselves, and they aren't humans...silly little creatures!
When I was a child every time I saw a turtle soon after I would hear a gunshot. "They are bad!," the farmers would say. "I dunt want any of dem stupid little turtuls n' my pond, no!" I was bro… Continue
Posted on September 15, 2008 at 12:57pm — 2 Comments
I'll Be Here
This is a song I wrote and I'm kinda pleased with how it turned out.
Let me know what you think.
There she lies standing alone
Wondering which way to go.
I pass by her not even thinking
For her I did not know.
She turns to me and with a grin
Speaks quite lavishly.
"I'll be here," she said,
"If you come back for me."
This made me wonder
And each day I wondered even more
About this beautiful woman
I've never seen around here before.
Those words fill my head
Like a songbird's melody.
"I'… Continue
Posted on August 30, 2008 at 4:52pm — 1 Comment
Without Elvis, there wouldn't have been Beatles...Without Lyell, there would have been no Darwin.
Can you imagine starting over? Finding inspiration from nothing, but the scenery around you.
It's overwhelming to think that Robert Johnson only had the blues, poverty, and a beat up guitar to work with and he still influenced the greats.
It's just ignorant to say that science, music, art, life and the world around us wont change or get better in the future...even though music is having a… Continue
It's overwhelming to think that Robert Johnson only had the blues, poverty, and a beat up guitar to work with and he still influenced the greats.
It's just ignorant to say that science, music, art, life and the world around us wont change or get better in the future...even though music is having a… Continue
Posted on August 30, 2008 at 4:08pm — 2 Comments
A long long time ago I can still remember how that coral used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance I could make those people dance and maybe theyd be happy for a while.
At the begging of this chapter I didn't quite know where Osha was going with the flood story. I really enjoyed what he turned it into. It really took me by surprise that the fl… Continue
Posted on July 9, 2008 at 1:44pm — 5 Comments
The perfect "marriage?"
Corals are strange animals. They cant move. They cant see. They cant hear. They dont have a true nervous system. They only have two layers of true cells...but, they need food. Class Animalia?...sure!
How do they get their food?
From an algae called zooxanthellae or "zoox." Zoox do far more than give the coral 98% of their food. Zoox give corals their color. Zoox also speed aid in the process corals use to build… Continue
How do they get their food?
From an algae called zooxanthellae or "zoox." Zoox do far more than give the coral 98% of their food. Zoox give corals their color. Zoox also speed aid in the process corals use to build… Continue
Posted on June 20, 2008 at 9:00pm — 5 Comments
Comment Wall (5 comments)
- At 10:31pm on January 20, 2009,
Taylor Braby said… - ok well torin started a group for our group thing so we can get things started and I'm not sure if he has invited you but you should join.
- At 10:21pm on June 16, 2008,
Osha said… - Then we both have good taste in music ;>)
I saw your list of favorites -- it's impressive.
- At 7:19pm on June 10, 2008,
Jayse Musser said… - yeah i never said that it was better by any means, but yeah for them to stop up and attempt a legendary song like Imagine takes some balls, but as you said they pulled it off quite nicely
- At 4:42pm on June 10, 2008,
Jayse Musser said…
- lemme guess... youre talking about their remake of Imagine? to be honest i think they did a really good job redoing it
- At 9:54am on June 6, 2008,
Chris Puett said… - im just glad we both feel the same way about each other! :)
WATER...
warm
tropical
water
flowing
ever
so slowly
...northward
tropical
water
flowing
ever
so slowly
...northward
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During class, we began to talk about seaweed. When Mr. Nash asked if we knew what it felt like, I hadn't, because I'd never really seen seaweed in real life. I've been to an ocean and all, but never been to a spot that wasn't a beach where tons of...
Remember... the trophic pyramid is real. It is just that above coral reefs... it seems to be "inverted." Of course, this cannot be. There is simply no way to consume more than is produced. Thus, we spoke of the trophic pyramid on a coral reef as b...
Again... excellent clarification of some possible confusion between supralittoral... and littoral.
Apparent inverted trophic pyramid... apparent. It really cannot be inverted. In fact, this is related to the Law of Conservation of Mass/Energy.
Lungs are good at extracting oxygen from dry air. Gills are efficient only when wet.
Therefore, the paradox is most easily solved with regard to marine critters by finding a way to keep their gills wet during periods of drying.
Make sense?
No... the variable heat of tidepools is a really fantastic scientific question. Like several have mentioned, the sea will soon be back to these little pools, but... this is a significant source of stress for sure!
Yep- this is why folks like Michael Pollan stress eating "low on the food chain."
This interesting essay is related...
Every 12 hours... or six hours. Depending on where in the world the tidepools are.
This is a really nice reply of clarification. This is exactly what I mean about the kind of "value-added" reply that adds to the conversation more than just a friendly sort of way. Thank you for this. This is the way it should be done.
Uhhhhh..... yeah. I get it. It's ok. I see how it is.
;)
Great job explaining the Ocean Zones! I think it is crazy how they just told the people to get off the island so they could blow it up. That was their home!? All it did was test a bomb and hurt the enviornment. Although Mr. Nash did talk about the...
It is crazy to me how we could eat at a lower trophic level and have 10 times as much food as we would have the next trophic level up. It doesn't make sense to me when everyone is eating at high trophic levels. Eating at lower trophic levels is he...
We can reflect on the night, or research about a topic and post here.
Wow. I really had no idea that so much of the food that I consume every day has algae in it. It’s kind of weird if you think about it. Well maybe it is only for me. In zoology, we have only ever talked about algae when we were discussing how it li...
Last monday nights class was very interesting. I was unaware of how the trophic levels affected us as humans. It is obvious to me that we need to get our resources and food from the lowest trophic level possible. I thought it was very interesting ...
Okay. I am totally confused. Are we supposed to reply to this? I thought we were supposed to research something that interested us like seaweed or something?
Seaweed is slimy and gross. I can't stand it touching my skin let alone putting it in my mouth! Apparently people eat seaweed. I know I have when eating sushi but never really thought anything about it. There are a lot of diet fads going around th...
Brooke, I like how you brought Animal Planet into this. That was hilarious.
I too thought those animals were amazing to be able to do that. I really want to look into how they are able to do that. I mean, do they have lungs? How can they switch b...
I've always kind of stereotyped the ocean. See, I grew up always visiting the West Coast and only saw that side of the ocean. The Pacific Ocean there is very cold with large powerful waves that can knock people flat. The wind always blows real har...
I have to agree with Brook, wouldn't the creatures get new water? Or is that sea splash or something and the water truly doesnt go that high? Just something to think about.
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Climate modeling may have missed something: Aquatic creatures mix ocean water by swimming
Understanding mixing in the ocean is of fundamental importance to modeling climate change or predicting the effects of an El Niño on our weather. Modern ocean models primarily incorporate the effects of winds and tides. However, they do not generally take into account the mixing generated by swimming animals.Sea stars bulk up to beat the heat
A new study finds that a species of sea star stays cool using a strategy never before seen in the animal kingdom. The sea stars soak up cold sea water into their bodies during high tide as buffer against potentially damaging temperatures brought about by direct sunlight at low tide.Deep-sea world beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species on edge of black abyss
Scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight -- creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world down to 5000 meters (three miles) below the ocean waves.Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions
Researchers have uncovered a strikingly pattern for ancient mass extinctions: extinctions rates during mass extinctions were significantly higher in open-ocean-facing settings than in epicontinental seas, indicating that open-ocean settings were more susceptible to the mass-extinction-causing agents.Is 80-year-old mistake leading to first species to be fished to extinction?
A species of common skate is to become the first marine fish species to be driven to extinction by commercial fishing, due to an error of species classification 80 years ago.© 2009 Created by Sean Nash
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