Japan Symposium

Dr. Robert Van Syoc joined five other speakers and hundreds of other scientists from around the world for the “New Perspectives on Barnacle Research” symposium at the Crustacean Society meetings in Tokyo, Japan on 20-24 September 2009.  Dr. Van Syoc spoke on his studies of co-evolution of sponges and their obligate symbiont barnacle species.  Click here for a pdf of his presentation.

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Red Sea Museum

In May, 2009, curator Gary Williams and collection manager Bob Van Syoc traveled to Egypt and the Red Sea with a delegation including scientists from the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in...

Dr. Robert Van Syoc joined five other speakers and hundreds of other scientists from around the world for the “New Perspectives on Barnacle Research” symposium...

Gary Williams, curator of Invertebrate Zoology ... astounding specimens ... coral that grew on Eniwetok Atoll before a nuclear bomb was tested there in 1952.

Returning from a dive trip in Luzon, Philippines.

Returning from a dive trip in Luzon, Philippines.

Understanding evolution helps solve biological problems that impact our lives.

Chemical Defense and Evolution of Opisthobranch Gastropods

Chemical Defense and Evolution of Opisthobranch Gastropods by Guido Cimino and Michael T. Ghiselin. 25 September 2009....