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Experience the Life of the Deep Gulf of Mexico in 20 Videos

As we prepare for our 2019, Gulf of Mexico, Deep-Sea, Wood-Fall Collection, Research Cruise Spectacular from February 11th-24th, enjoy these videos from our 2017 expedition.…

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MH370 and the proverbial haystack.

Alistair Dove April 8, 2014 abyss black box depth flight data recorder Indian Ocean Malaysian Airlines MH370 search pattern

When does an analogy become useless? How about when it’s less exaggerated than the actual facts being analogized? Take the oft-used “needle in a haystack”…

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This Deep-Sea Predator is the Love Child of a Macaron and a Snork

Dr. M September 29, 2013 abyss cartoon cookie deep sea Does anybody ever read these tags macaron predator Saturday morning sea squirt snork Tunicate USA

In the shallow waters where sunlight penetrates, life is easy because food abounds. In the deep sea, life sucks because food is scarce. In landscape…

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Flesh Eating Sponges?

Dr. M May 28, 2013 abyss carnivores Chondrocladia Cladorhizidae Porifera sponge taxonomy

Most sponges, inspiration for dish cleaners and mess absorbers, feed by filtering water through those many holes and channels. Their scientific name, Porifera, literally means…

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Great Abyssal Diversity Among the Microscopic

Dr. M January 19, 2010 abyss donuts Microbe microbial operational taxonomic unit Organisms rare biosphere

An area the size of a coffee table on the deep-sea floor would yield hundreds of species. A few species would dominate with numbers in…

Conservation & Environment Expeditions New Research Open Access Organisms Scientist! Seamount Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Cataloging Life On the Deep-Sea Floor

Dr. M November 23, 2009 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…

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Biogeography of the Deep Sea

Dr. M September 22, 2009 abyss biogeography canyon deep sea geography landscape diversity Mosely Organisms range size Seamount seeps Trench vents volcanic

“There is absolutely nothing to restrict the geographical ranges of animals in the deep sea. Dr. Wallich, the pioneer of deep-sea research, eighteen years ago…

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TGIF: Making of Abyss

Kevin Zelnio August 28, 2009 abyss James Cameron movie

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Simple Summer Recipes for Dead Seafloor Carrion

Dr. M August 11, 2009 abyss carbon cycle detritus echinoderm fatty acid food web grenadier lipid macrourids marine snow Pacific predator prey rattail Scavenger Station M.trophic

The 285 macrourid fishes, the rattails, whiptails, and grenadiers, are one of, if not the, most abundant fish in the deep. You cannot throw…well anything…without…

Carnivals & Link Love Organisms

Sea Pigs

Dr. M July 6, 2009 abyss abyssal plain deep sea echinoderm Gastropod parasites Sea Cucumber sea pig

Everything you ever wanted to know about sea pigs (Holothuroidea: Scotoplanes sp.) from the Echinoblog. The best part is the gastropods parasites that love them…

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