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funkendrenchman
10-06-2003, 02:02 PM
Any suggestions? It can be on pretty much anything. Needs to be about 10 pages. I must make use of scientific journals, so it can't be some obscure topic nobody has ever researched. I've gotten some good ideas for paper from here before, so I thought I would give it another go. Thanks in advance.
bad_roo
10-06-2003, 02:05 PM
Tell 'em you need an all expenses paid trip to research the residual effects of the Exxon Valdez spill on the Alaskan marine ecosystem.
Originally posted by bad_roo
Tell 'em you need an all expenses paid trip to research the residual effects of the Exxon Valdez spill on the Alaskan marine ecosystem.
Nah......you don't want to do that. (says the person who spent 5 years working on the defense of that case ;) )
I wrote mine on Odobenus rosmarus divergens. Fascinating animals.
truth
10-06-2003, 02:26 PM
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaap/Images/0220096t.jpg
Those things are hung like walrus.
http://www.warter-naturfoto.de/bilder/Walross_pac_002.jpg
Pinner
10-06-2003, 02:38 PM
The fuk are you studying marine biology at 6,000ft???
http://www.warter-naturfoto.de/bilder/Walross_pac_004.jpg
truth
10-06-2003, 02:49 PM
There's always this...
NSFW..KQ says it's sexually harrassing to some uptight female attorney's in the PNW. (http://www.owensneversleeps.com/whale1.jpg)
Buster Highmen
10-06-2003, 02:49 PM
Effects of sawmills and organic debris in estuaries on salmon (Silvers in particular).
Effects of stream borne silt on salmon and steelhead eggs.
Heavy metal content of large ocean fish (you'll never east tuna again).
Carcinogens in bottom dwelling fish in the Puget Sound.
Demise of Atlantic Salmon stocks in Norway.
truth
10-06-2003, 02:52 PM
Originally posted by Buster Highmen
Heavy metal content of large ocean fish (you'll never east tuna again).
Mmmmmmmmm...mercury!
Truth - someone in my office accidentally sent that picture to a very conservative female atty who is also in our office. Not only was she squeaky conservative but she was the head of our anit-sexual harassment group. Needless to say she was not amused and he was brought up before the "HR Authorities."
Some ppl have no sense of humor :rolleyes:
truth
10-06-2003, 02:54 PM
Fuck em' if they can't take a joke...but I'll edit the post for you my love.
Besides, it's a whale shark, not a blue whale and everyone knows whale sharks have cloaka,not massive walrusessque penis.
bad_roo
10-06-2003, 03:44 PM
Although fat in the waist, walruses are lousy in the pow.
funkendrenchman
10-06-2003, 03:47 PM
Originally posted by Pinner
The fuk are you studying marine biology at 6,000ft???
Colorado has more certified scuba divers than any other state. Nice suggestions... keep em coming.
truth
10-06-2003, 03:48 PM
Originally posted by funkendrenchman
Colorado has more certified scuba divers than any other state.
Just wait till the damn hippies find out it's not Nitrous Oxide in those tanks.
bad_roo
10-06-2003, 03:49 PM
Originally posted by Buster Highmen
Heavy metal content of large ocean fish.
Real heavy metal?
Like Linkin Park?
truth
10-06-2003, 03:50 PM
Originally posted by bad_roo
Real heavy metal?
Like Linkin Park?
No, like Black Sabbath you wanker.
bad_roo
10-06-2003, 03:55 PM
Who was it who first posted the 'Linkin Park as real metal' thread? That was a true stroke of genius.
truth
10-06-2003, 03:56 PM
Dunno...but have you driven the gebius avant.
Henry Rollins
10-06-2003, 04:13 PM
http://www.madsmonsen.com/images/i_en/henry_rollins.jpg
Looking at the bottom, what do I see
I see the bottom staring back at me
"You have to part animal, part machine"
If you take a good look around you’ll see what I mean
Buster Highmen
10-06-2003, 04:14 PM
Effects of deep water sonar on marine mammals.
Effects of mudsharks on rock groupies.
Rock on groping mud effected sharks.
Shoop shoop doowop ba da bam boom.
Deep sea fishes have evolved such that conserved cellular signaling processes (e.g., G-protein coupled receptor mediated pathways)are, in some cases, regulated by hydrostatic pressure. This is cool in that it has allow some fish to survive in deeper water (along with the comcomitant development to resistance to cold, etc.) where they can access new food sources and escape predators. It serves as another example of the myriad ways that this class of receptors can be modulated. As a paper it would mix elements of ecology, evolution, and cell/molecular biology. Plenty of recent papers on the topic, too. Have fun!
bad_roo
10-06-2003, 04:18 PM
And their genetic material is used to make strawberries more resistant to the cold. You've got to love science.
And women with huge norks.
Originally posted by bad_roo
And their genetic material is used to make strawberries more resistant to the cold. You've got to love science.
And women with huge norks.
Actually, no. It's genetically modified bacterial that are sprayed onto the strawbwerries that confers cold-resistance.
Concur with your "huge norks" assessment.
bad_roo
10-06-2003, 04:26 PM
No, really, it's fish. I can taste it. That or minge.
if you need any info whale-related (esp. killer whales, the most charismatic of the charismatic megafauna), feel free to ask! Or just check out www.whaleresearch.com or www.orcahome.de for basic background info. There is a shit-ton of lit. available on these guys from all over the world, although currently the Southern Residents (the ones I work with) are bigtime hot topic in my small PNW world.
Do you have access to Marine Mammal Science at your library? How about the Canadian Journal of Zoology?
Coffee
10-06-2003, 08:31 PM
A really broad topic, but can make it through ten pages
Critisism of the Maximum Sustainable Yield model and evidence for movement towards the Ecologically Sustainable Yield model for fisheries managment.
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