Thread: Ideas for marine biology paper

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.

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.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep...s/0220096t.jpg

Those things are hung like walrus.

http://www.warter-naturfoto.de/bilde...ss_pac_002.jpg

The fuk are you studying marine biology at 6,000ft???

http://www.warter-naturfoto.de/bilde...ss_pac_004.jpg

There's always this...

NSFW..KQ says it\\\'s sexually harrassing to some uptight female attorney\\\'s in the PNW.

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.

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

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.

Although fat in the waist, walruses are lousy in the pow.

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.

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.

Originally posted by Buster Highmen
Heavy metal content of large ocean fish.

Real heavy metal?

Like Linkin Park?

Originally posted by bad_roo
Real heavy metal?

Like Linkin Park?

No, like Black Sabbath you wanker.

Who was it who first posted the 'Linkin Park as real metal' thread? That was a true stroke of genius.

Dunno...but have you driven the gebius avant.

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

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!

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.

What's a "nork" ?