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Is the sea floor littered with dead animals due to radiation? No.

Dr. M January 4, 2014 climate change Fukushima Ken Smith marine snow MBARI NPP Pacific phytoplankton Primary Production Radiation salp

Recently we at Deep-Sea News have tried to combat misinformation about the presence of high levels of Fukushima radiation and its impact on marine organisms…

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Ecology New Research Plankton

Climate Change and Food Availability in the Deep

Kevin Zelnio April 3, 2010 climate change deep sea food availability Ken Smith MBARI

A nice, new video produced by MBARI about Dr. Ken Smith’s research: “The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of…

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Vessels and Equipment

Benthic Rover, Benthic Rover

Dr. M September 15, 2009 benthic benthic rover cabled observatory deep sea Ken Smith MARS MBARI Monterey Accelerated Research Syste Monterey Bay oxygen consumption respiration rover

Send that data right over. The absolute coolest gadget to hit deep-sea science is is the Benthic Rover, the deep-sea equivalent of the Spirit and…

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Organisms Pictures and Movies

Friday Deep-sea Picture: Sea cucumber stampede

Peter Etnoyer April 3, 2009 abyss echinoblog echinoderm elasopodid herd holothurian Jonathan Wojcik Ken Smith MBARI

Boggling bioturbators, Batman. It’s a wild herd of holothurians. Run for yur lives! Elasipodid holothurians are a dominant component of the mobile invertebrate megafauna on…

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