2011

Today marks one half of the Dallas portion of the class, and we finnaly got to the biology part of marine biology. We started learned about plankton. I found out that the character Plankton for the show Spongebob isn't really a plankton, because plankton have no control over where they go. We learned that there are two types of...

HELLO FRIENDS; I regret to inform you that I will no longer be writing the way that I previously did. For my fans, I can only tell them to rejoice, because I will know re-invent Marine Biology and English. Up to know all of my blogs have led to this moment, I call it the rouque writing style. All...

Last nights reading concerned different viruses that live in our oceans. These viruses infect and kill different bacterias in the ocean environment. These viruses also negatively affect the carbon production in the ocean. I found this article very informative and easy to read and follow. The different charts explained what was happening very thoroughly. In today's class we talked...

Today in class Mr. Kirby taught us about plankton and algae in the oceans around the world. The lesson was worthwhile because I learned so much. I actually found out that some plankton even feed on other plankton to survive. I also learned that most marine organisms begin their lives as plankton because they are so small and can...

Today, we started off class with learning about the different zones in the ocean. I learned that past about 1000 m not much plant life can live because there isn't any sunlight that reaches that deep. I also learned that there is so much to be learned about the "creatures of the deep" because we really haven't ventured to...

Many things affect the study of marine biologist one big factor is light. Light determines the where the organism in the ocean live and also in some cases the concerntrations of the organisms. For example almsot all of the photosythetic organisms in the ocean will live in the top 1000 feet because the light needed for most photosythetic organism...

Today in class we discussed the biological zonation of the ocean. The biological zonation of the ocean is important in marine biology because it explains where and why certain marine organisms live where they do. Marine organisms that require light to conduct photosynthesis would live in the Epipelagic zone. In contrast, marine organisms such as the whale and tuna...

Today we learned about the different layers of the ocean. I found this interesting firstly because it just begins to show the gargantuan size of the ocean; the uppermost layer spanning 2,000 m (6, 561 ft). While Mr. Kirby explained this to us, I was thinking about the organisms that inhabited/hunted in these areas, specifically the whales. I know...

Class today: full of micro information, however I don't mean insignificant; I mean a topic on the smallest forms of life in the ocean: viruses and plankton. We learned about how viruses infect plankton and turn them into dissolved organic matter. Little bacteria eat this matter and are then eaten by plankton, which are in turn eaten...