A new species of squid, 0.7 meteres (2.3ft) in length was discovered among the 7,000 samples from taken from seamounts in the southern Indian Ocean. The newly discovered squid is from the chiroteuthids characterized by long slender bodies and fantastic bioluminescence displays. . Via New large squid found in southern Indian Ocean and additional pictures from the . . . → Read More: New squid found in Indian Ocean
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By Dr. M, on  November 15th, 2010  One comment  Cephalopods!, Expeditions, New Research, Seamount  Cephalopod, Indian Ocean, Seamount, squid SARDI scientists have discovered an extinct volcano (800m across and 200m high) 2km below the surface and 100 nautical miles offshore in a protected area of the Great Australian Bight. They were mapping a strip of seabed in the middle of the Benthic Protection Zone and tripped over the feature, now named “Anna’s Pimple”. . . . → Read More: Say Hello to Anna’s Pimple
By Dr. M, on October 20th, 2010 2 comments Cephalopods!, Expeditions, Scientist!, Seamount cirrate octopus, MBARI, octopoda, Octopus, Seamount, Taney This ghostly-looking orange cirrate octopus was observed with the MBARI’s ROV Doc Ricketts on my recent research cruise to the Taney Seamounts. These finned octopuses belong to an order of animals called Cirrata named for the presence of hair-like structures called ‘cirri’ which may aid these animals in the capture of food. via YouTube – Ghostly critters . . . → Read More: Ghostly critters of the deep sea: Cirrate octopus
By Dr. M, on October 14th, 2010 One comment Biodiversity, Carnivals & Link Love, Coral, Critters, Ecology, New Research, New Species, Scientist!, Seamount, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Asteroid, Chris Mah, Coral, echionderm, Lonny Lundsten, MBARI A new paper by Chris Mah of Echinoblog, Martha Nizinski at the National Marine Fisheries Service, and Lonny Lundsten at MBARI is nicely captured in this Youtube video narrated by Lonny. Congrats to the three authors. A new paper by Chris Mah of Echinoblog, Martha Nizinski at the National Marine Fisheries Service, and Lonny Lundsten at MBARI is nicely captured in this Youtube video narrated by Lonny. Congrats to the three authors. The exploration vessel Nautilus, with a team of experts of the University of Haifa’s Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, headed by Prof. Zvi Ben Avraham, discovered for the first time an area of reefs with deep-sea corals in the Mediterranean, offshore of Israel. This area apparently stretches over a few kilometers, 700 . . . → Read More: Deep-sea coral reefs discovered in Mediterranean
By Dr. M, on July 19th, 2010 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Critters, Expeditions, New Research, Seamount Barnacle, cirri, exploration, indonesia, Kawio Barat, NOAA, Okeanos Explorer, Seamount, Sulawesi, Volcano This is a perspective view of the Kawio Barat (West Kawio) seamount looking from the northwest. The underwater volcano rises around 3,800 meters from the seafloor. Credit: Image courtesy of INDEX 2010: "Indonesia-USA Deep-Sea Exploration of the Sangihe Talaud Region." The join Indonesia – U.S. exploration of the deep ocean north of Sulawesi, Indonesia mapped . . . → Read More: Update on NOAA Expedition in the Indian Ocean
By Kevin Zelnio, on April 20th, 2010 2 comments Ecology, New Research, Seamount biogeography, Biome, Blue Marble, Mountains in the Sea, NOAA, oceanography, Peter Etnoyer, Seamount Peter Etnoyer is a deep sea coral habitat specialist with NOAA’s National Center for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) in Charleston, SC. He returns to Deep Sea News to deliver this important report on an exciting new development in deep sea science. The journal Oceanography published a new full-color thematic issue online, devoted to understanding seamounts, . . . → Read More: Guest Post: The Largest Habitats on Earth
By Dr. M, on April 13th, 2010 One comment Biodiversity, Books/Media, Carnivals & Link Love, Ecology, Education, Giant Isopod, New Research, Ramblings, Scientist!, Seamount, Tweets American Scientist, Biodiversity, bivalve, deep sea, Ecology, evolution, Gastropod, Giant Isopod, Hydrothermal Vent, island rule, isopocalypse, MBARI, Monterey Canyan, National Geographic, NESCent, New Species, Seamount, Sigma Xi, Snail, Southern Fried Science, twitter A potential new species of nudibranch (white box) on a bubblegum coral You might have noticed that my posting frequency is down recently. Why? 1. Kevin Z convinced me to start Tweeting. There seems to be an inverse relationship to my writing for DSN and posting Tweets. Previous attempts to integrate our Twitter content into . . . → Read More: What’s New With the Dr. M and the Oceans?
By Dr. M, on December 21st, 2009 One comment Expeditions, Geology, Natural Disaster, New Research, Scientist!, Seamount, TGIF: Pictures & Movies eruption, Pacific, video, Volcano All captured in video by scientists exploring 1220m (4000ft) beneath the surface in Pacific Ocean near Samoa the previous summer. The lava erupting from the West Mata volcano is predicted to be the hottest lava erupting one Earth. [googlemap lat="-15.284185114076433" lng="-172.08984375" width="500px" height="500px" zoom="2" type="G_SATELLITE_MAP"]Samoa[/googlemap] All captured in video by scientists exploring 1220m (4000ft) . . . → Read More: Deepest Underwater Volcanic Eruption
By Dr. M, on November 23rd, 2009 2 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Expeditions, New Research, Open Access, Scientist!, Seamount, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls abyss, Census of Marine Life, CoML, Seamount, taxonomy Over ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an initiative to document the biodiversity of the oceans. That program, the Census of Marine Life, started in 2000 with the goal “to advance a major new international observational program . . . → Read More: Cataloging Life On the Deep-Sea Floor
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