USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Moving Forward to Guam and Palau 2012
by David Ginsburg and Jim Haw With this post we launch coverage of the USC Dornsife Environmental Studies 2012 Guam and Palau expedition.
Expeditions
Spiders in Borneo: Top ten animal encounters
A tropical rainforest is so biologically intense that you can't help but have many meetings with its inhabitants. Here, some of my most memorable encounters with animals in Borneo, presented as a top ten list.10.
Catching up with Scientific Diving at USC Dornsife: What is Scientific Diving?
By Gerry Smith. Diving is an inherently risky activity when compared to taking notes in a classroom. First and foremost is that it happens by definition in a locale that doesn’t support human life any better than the surface of the moon.
Spiders in Borneo: Jumping spider rainbow
Returning from the Borneo expedition, I can look forward to months of sifting through specimens, taking data from them, and analyzing. We will be focused on what the specimens can tell us scientifically, but as we are doing this, each specimen will be a souvenir.
SnowSTAR-2012: Questionable Monuments and Widespread Cratering
Art Gelvin April 14th: It has been a busy few days. Yesterday the remaining part of team arrived from Fairbanks.
Spiders in Borneo: The Music of Biodiversity
On the plane flight home, I feel the afterglow of five weeks of walking on paths in Bornean rainforest, of living smells and stubborn itches, of jumping spider faces looking up at me.
Catching up with Scientific Diving at USC Dornsife: Diving into the Aquarium of the Pacific
Note: Before we join the new group of students training for the 2012 Micronesia Expedition we will catch up with several of the USC scientific divers and see what they have been working on over the past year.
Spiders in Borneo: The spiders who wouldn't be
With the field work done, our attention turns to handling all of the specimens. We have barely had time to glance at most of them. My curiosity to peruse them under a microscope is strong, as I want to figure out what we got, but that will have to wait until after we get home to the lab in Canada.
Spiders in Borneo: Trees that grow from sky to ground
The first time I arrived to the Amazon rainforest decades ago, I was astounded at the intensity. Everywhere I looked, there was a story unfolding -- predation, decay, camouflage, parasitism.
Catching up with Scientific Diving at USC Dornsife: The Robot Submarine
Note: Before we join the new group of students training for the 2012 Micronesia Expedition we will catch up with several of the USC scientific divers and see what they have been working on over the past year.
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