Author Archives: mkrauszer

Shanties, Shellfish and Whale Ships

I finally took some pictures of interesting things here at SEA, so I’m posting for a second time this week! I am also putting off writing a paper. One of our courses here at SEA is a maritime studies class, … Continue reading

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The Enlightenment

The specific enlightenment to which the title of this blog refers is the crucial education that every human being deserves about animal sex. Yes, I finally showed my housemates the slug sex video (an excerpt from the Planet Earth series http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhVi4Z6CjZk). I also dare say … Continue reading

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Surprises and Disappointments: Learning to predict the weather

I am in my second week at the Sea Education Association campus in Massachusetts. I still haven’t figure out how to spell Massachusetts without help from the autocorrect. It’s really about where you chose to apply yourself. This week’s update is … Continue reading

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Studying at Sea

Many Puget Sound students go looking for the paradigm-shifting, character-challenging, horizon-expanding, once-in-a-lifetime adventure that is the Undergraduate Study Abroad Experience. I went looking for Atlantic sea monsters. I am in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, briefly. I am participating in a Sea … Continue reading

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Stephen and Mary go to The Coast: Part 1

Two college students, six days, 250 sea stars, and one Garmin GPS. Over the week of July 9-15, my research partner, Stephen, and I made a tour of beaches between Commencement Bay and La Push, WA, conducting sea star surveys and … Continue reading

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Public Service Announcement: Moon snails are homewreckers

To the approximately 0.00014% of the population that owns a  tank capable of maintaining such creatures, I feel I should warn that the moon snail, or likely any large, predatory gastropod, is a monumental homewrecker. In the clean, crisp, 10-degrees-Celsius … Continue reading

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Reporting from the San Juan Islands

Update on the sea star models: dough colors created from food color, flour, and lard are not matching the colors of real sea stars very well (particularly showing severely different reflectance in the UV, which birds can see), so I … Continue reading

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Captain’s Log Stardate 06.05.2010

Talking about poop: Another interesting side project that has formed as a byproduct of investigating gull eating behavior has been the investigation of gull after-eating products. Gulls commonly eat sea stars and other organisms that contain hard parts like skeletons … Continue reading

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