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Samantha Craven is a marine biologist who graduated from the University of Plymouth with a Masters in Applied Marine Science. She is an avid diver, nature photographer and conservationist.

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Crinoid, New Caledonia by Rodolphe Holler

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livinginchaosbeauty:

My final project in scientific illustration! I wanted to draw some of the forms of the mimic octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus, one of the coolest...

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Die Kreidefauna des Peterwardeiner Gebirges

Palaeontographica 52 (1905-6)

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#lamave’s oslob #whale #shark research team discussing data collection… Another day at the office ;-)

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Here’s a great GIF of the lights in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour switching off for Earth Hour 2013.

This year the campaign was supported by the likes of Eason Chan and cantopop...

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Colorful phytoplankton blooms off the coast of France. Nasa writes:

Blooms can be a blessing to other marine species, as these tiny floating plants often feed everything...

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“One improves by learning to be productively ashamed of who one currently is.”

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Alain de Botton

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Col. Chris Hadfield: “Safely home - back on Earth, happily readapting to the heavy pull of gravity. Wonderful to smell and feel Spring.”

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About MAAMB

Samantha Craven is a marine biologist who graduated from the University of Plymouth with a Masters in Applied Marine Science. She is an avid diver, nature photographer and conservationist.

TBT 253.8 hours

These are her science and conservation musings.

She doesn't think she is particularly mad, but then she is talking about herself in the third person

Ask away