What’s in a name?
You may have noticed that this blog has a rather bizarre name, surely something silly made up by me you’d think. Well the truth is when I was trying to come up with… Continue reading
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Manipulating polarisation for a better view
Wow, haven’t I been ignoring this blog for a while?! I have had quite a busy year, and unfortunately blogging took a back seat for a while. In the summer I successfully submitted… Continue reading
Conservation Physiology: a Multidisciplinary Approach to Protecting Species
The way in which an animal moves is essential to its survival. Hunting, escaping, migrating and mating are all made possible through the various locomotor strategies that animals employ. As a biomechanist, I… Continue reading
Visualising the Footprints of Ocean Swimmers
Dr Kakani Katija is a bioengineer who works as a postdoctoral fellow at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Her work involves the study of how marine organisms interact with their environment, more specifically, she… Continue reading
Researchers get closer to Sharks with REMUS SharkCam
Dramatic footage of great white sharks attacking an underwater camera has recently gone viral across the internet. Filmed in 2013, the videos give a glimpse into the underwater hunting techniques employed by… Continue reading
Incredible ‘holographic’ virtual aquarium
The video below was made by Memukhin Oleg, it features CGI fish swimming in a virtual aquarium.
Crittercam Reveals Humboldt Squid Chit Chat
Humboldt squid have long had a reputation as devils of the sea, famed for dragging divers down to their death and cannibalistic decapitations of one another. Many old sea tales turn out to… Continue reading
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