31.   He radioed the accident to the marine biologist charged with local turtle autopsies.

32.   He then held a series of jobs including college professor, marine biologist and construction foreman.

33.   He is a marine biologist, as was his father, and specializes in gobies, a type of small carnivorous fish.

34.   Hessler of Scripps, the deep biodiversity pioneer, said in an interview that marine biologists needed to redouble their research instead of their rough estimates.

35.   His father, a financial adviser and amateur marine biologist, had been diagnosed the previous September with pancreatic cancer, a disease which killed him within weeks.

36.   In some areas, marine biologists actually use mussels to track water quality.

37.   It is considered a keystone species by marine biologists, meaning that it is vital to hundreds of marine species for both food and protection.

38.   It is only in the last few years that marine biologists have begun to learn about the vast number and variety of viruses in the seas.

39.   It came from Dr. Riki Ott, a marine biologist and Cordova-based gillnetter.

40.   It will take four years for the abalone to reach adulthood before they can be released, said Ian Taniguchi, marine biologist with the California Fish and Game.