Using a remote lander* with a camera, a UK-Japan team has set a record for filming the deepest fish. The fish is Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, a…
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New Hall of the Oceans at the Smithsonian
by Peter Etnoyer If you live in Washington DC, or plan to visit within the next 30 years, you’ll have to make time to visit…
View More New Hall of the Oceans at the SmithsonianWhole Lot of Love
The love is in deep-sea mud. Maybe you didn’t know this. Now you do. Trust me, I’m an expert. As much as it pains me…
View More Whole Lot of LovePhoto from the field: Lophelia II 2008
Here’s an image from yesterday’s dive to 300 m at a Green Canyon site with SeaView’s SeaEye Falcon ROV in the Gulf of Mexico. The…
View More Photo from the field: Lophelia II 2008Expedition underway
by Peter Etnoyer NOAA’s RV Nancy Foster left port in Gulfport, MS today with a complement of biologists, geologists, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) pilots, and…
View More Expedition underwayFollow the New England Aquarium to the Sea of Cortez
by Kevin Zelnio Staff and collaborators from the New England Aquarium in Boston are out to sea. This expedition is funded by the National Geographic…
View More Follow the New England Aquarium to the Sea of CortezThe glacial pace of sea-level rise
Flow velocities of ocean-ending outlet glaciers would have to be ~ 49 km/yr, 70 times faster than those glaciers move today for Greenland alone to raise sea level 2m.
View More The glacial pace of sea-level riseTwilight Zone… the Expedition
Join me and my colleagues as we embark on the Benthic Assemblages in the Twilight Zone (BATZ) expedition to characterize benthic assemblages in the mesophotic or “twilight zone” (50-200 m) using a deep-diving Phantom II remotely operated vehicle in the Gulf of Mexico August 25 – September 2nd, 2008.
View More Twilight Zone… the ExpeditionThis Is The Story of Carbon…
…and where it goes…how it got there..its trials and tribulations. This week in carbon sequestration theater we explore Little Petey Carbon and (sing out loud)…
View More This Is The Story of Carbon…Forget space travel…
…the ocean is our final frontier. Besides if we need to explore it before it is overfished, mined, covered in trash, or a sink for…
View More Forget space travel…