http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:23:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/29/a-tale-of-ice-algae-and-the-arctic/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/29/a-tale-of-ice-algae-and-the-arctic/#comments Wed, 29 May 2013 20:12:51 +0000 Rebecca Fowler http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=37035 I returned to New York on Monday, but Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists Andy Juhl and Craig Aumack remain working in Barrow, Alaska for another week. They’ll continue to collect data and samples in a race against deteriorating Arctic sea ice conditions as the onset of summer causes the ice to thin and break up. Even [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/29/a-tale-of-ice-algae-and-the-arctic/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/23/ctene-sensations-of-the-arctic-ocean/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/23/ctene-sensations-of-the-arctic-ocean/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 05:40:49 +0000 Rebecca Fowler http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=36929 One of the goals of Andy Juhl’s and Craig Aumack’s Arctic research is to determine the role of ice algae as a source of nutrition for food webs existing in the water column and at the bottom of the Arctic ocean. During their fieldwork these Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists are deploying a plankton net, a [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/23/ctene-sensations-of-the-arctic-ocean/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/19/what-lies-beneath-arctic-ice/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/19/what-lies-beneath-arctic-ice/#comments Sun, 19 May 2013 07:38:08 +0000 Rebecca Fowler http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=36831 On Thursday we lowered a camera into an ice borehole to get a look at the underside of the ice. In the following video, you can clearly see the algae living in the bottom of the ice due to their pigments, which they use to harvest light. These organisms are not frozen into the ice; [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/19/what-lies-beneath-arctic-ice/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/09/21/scientists-discover-new-species-of-monkey/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/09/21/scientists-discover-new-species-of-monkey/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:58:30 +0000 Brian Kateman http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=30665 In a gigantic and remote rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a team of scientists have discovered a new species of Old World monkey known as the "Lesula."]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/09/21/scientists-discover-new-species-of-monkey/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/23/your-nose-knows-evolution/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/23/your-nose-knows-evolution/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:58:12 +0000 Brian Kateman http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=18126 Olfaction is one of the least understood senses but has played a vital role in the evolution of vertebrates. Basic survival behaviors such as foraging, communicating, recalling memory, and reproduction are often dependent on a protruding-facial structure that we too often ignore.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/23/your-nose-knows-evolution/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/20/summer-ecosystem-experiences-for-undergraduates/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/20/summer-ecosystem-experiences-for-undergraduates/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:26:13 +0000 Brian Kateman http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=17989 CERC is now accepting applications for the Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/20/summer-ecosystem-experiences-for-undergraduates/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/16/male-seahorse-a-supermom/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/16/male-seahorse-a-supermom/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:29:28 +0000 Brian Kateman http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=17730 The term, male-pregnancy, may seem to border on oxymoronic, but seahorses will prove to you otherwise. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/09/16/male-seahorse-a-supermom/feed/ 0