Scientists use remotely operated vehicle to dive underneath Antarctic icebergs
December 27, 2005 – A team of scientists from MBARI’s Midwater Ecology group spent December studying oceanic animals around and underneath Antarctic icebergs.
December 27, 2005 – A team of scientists from MBARI’s Midwater Ecology group spent December studying oceanic animals around and underneath Antarctic icebergs.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently published their final report on methods for capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide with the goal of reducing greenhouse warming of the Earth.
MBARI researchers will present more than a dozen talks and posters at the American Geophysical Union 2005 Fall Meeting in San Francisco. These talks will cover subjects ranging from the impacts of ocean acidification to the immense algal blooms that follow El Niño events.
Researchers from MBARI and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) recently worked together to design, assemble, and launch a new research mooring off Monterey Bay.
Each winter, storm waves sweep thousands of tons of beach sand along the coast of Monterey Bay. This sand is carried parallel to shore until it reaches Moss Landing, where it enters the head of Monterey Canyon.
A recent analysis of earthquake waves from last December’s Sumatra earthquake showed that MBARI’s seabottom seismometer in Monterey Bay can provide earthquake records as clear as those from the best land-based stations.
During the spring and summer of 2005, engineers have been working on the main “science node,” a key element of the Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS). After being installed on the seafloor, the science node will serve as a network hub and an electrical substation for the MARS underwater observatory.
As successful fishermen know, if you want to catch fish, you have to use the right bait or lure. This is true even in the deep sea, where scientists recently discovered a new species of jelly that attracts fish by wiggling hundreds of glowing red lures.
Jun 9, 2005 – After analyzing hundreds of hours of deep-sea video, Bruce Robison and his colleagues found that “sinkers”—the cast-off mucus nets of small midwater animals called larvaceans—are a significant source of food for deep-sea organisms.
One of David Packard’s goals when founding MBARI was to create an environment where scientists and engineers could work together to develop new cutting-edge tools for marine research. Six different examples of such work are being presented this week at the 2005 Joint Assembly meeting of AGU in New Orleans.
MBARI engineers recently launched an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with three sonar mapping devices on board. The mission was the culmination of three years of preparation and is part of a larger MBARI endeavor to bring high quality sonar mapping devices to the deep sea.
MBARI oceanographer John Ryan recently published a scientific paper describing how Monterey Canyon can influence the growth and distribution of phytoplankton.
Several MBARI researchers are presenting talks and posters this week at the 2005 Aquatic Sciences Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) in Salt Lake City, Utah. These presentations reflect the diversity of research in biological oceanography at MBARI.
This February, MBARI geologists are using the research vessel Western Flyer and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Tiburon to explore several submarine canyons and undersea landslides off the Southern California coast.
MBARI geologist Charles Paull was one of the first scientists to study and name “cold-seep communities.” However, after studying several hundred of these communities in Monterey Bay, Paull has concluded that few are located in areas of significant groundwater flow.