Charismatic Microfauna

This is a short video of a glass squid that was brought up in a MOCNESS tow from the deepest net, 800-1000 meters, on 2 September 2012 in th...

Gareth here. We arrived today in Port Hueneme, California, just north of LA. The cruise was an enormous success. We managed to survey a tota...

On a research vessel you are bound to get scientists, crew, engineers, and technicians from all over the world on a cruise.   There is this...

Gareth here. Dedicated followers of this blog will recall that last year during the first cruise of our Ocean Acidification and Pteropods St...

  Oceanographers normally collect large amounts of data in the course of the work at sea. In the background on most academic research ves...

In all ecosystems, whether terrestrial or marine, species combine to form assemblages. These assemblages are often specific to various envir...

Interspersed with deployments, sampling, and data processing, the scientists and crew have been decorating Styrofoam cups ...