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Have you ever wondered what being a marine biologist is really like? Well then you’re in the right place! Welcome to The Drop-In, a blog run by the students of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in beautiful central California. In January 2021, The Drop-In moved to a new location on the MLML Student Life Website.Search the blog
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Scuba Talk Now, Pirate’s Radio (KNRY 1240) features MLML Student Amanda Kahn
Get to bed early tonight because Sunday morning at 8:00, MLML student Amanda Kahn will be interviewed on Scuba Talk Now, Pirate’s Radio! The interview will air on KNRY AM 1240, and will feature questions about some of the things … Continue reading
2010 Open House Puppet Show: Dora the Sperm Whale Explorer’s Deep-Sea Adventure
by Amanda Kahn, Invertebrate Zoology and Molecular Ecology Lab In April, MLML opened its doors to the public and we spent the weekend showcasing our research and teaching people about marine science. We did this in a variety of ways: … Continue reading
Posted in MLML in the News, What's Happening at MLML
Tagged deep-sea, education, feeding and diet, Open House, video, whales
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The Oxygen Detective: High Marks for Low Oxygen Research
by Erin Loury Breathing is a pretty key function in life, and most living things need oxygen to survive. This fact is just as true in the ocean as it is on land, meaning that areas of low oxygen water … Continue reading
Discovering a New Species of Ghost Shark
by Erin Loury, Ichthyology Lab Your mission, should you choose to accept it: describe a new species unknown to science. That’s exactly the mission a few MLML students undertook last spring in a class on systematics. Systematics is the study … Continue reading
Posted in MLML in the News, Research, What's Happening at MLML
Tagged deep-sea, fish, ROV, sharks
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Today Show video: An update from Antarctica
Moss Landing Marine Labs researcher Dr. Stacy Kim talks to the Today Show live from Antarctica about collapsing ice shelves, “skinny” robots and exploring the “last ocean!” Aired Tuesday, November 18, 2008.