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MBARI news—2015

1

New website catalogs thousands of deep-sea animals and seafloor features

03 Dec 2015

Dec 3, 2015 – MBARI’s new Deep-Sea Guide makes it easy for anyone to search MBARI’s treasure trove of images and scientific observations of deep-sea animals, seafloor habitats, geological features, and research tools. Previously only available for internal use, the Deep-Sea Guide is now available to scientists and the general public.

2

Mooring maintenance from diver’s perspective

29 Oct 2015

Oct 29, 2015 – MBARI divers conduct routine maintenance on the M1 mooring in Monterey Bay. The M1 mooring was installed in 1989 when the Institute was only two years old. Since then, the buoy, equipped with dozens of different scientific instruments, has collected over 25 years of data.

3

A hot time in Monterey Bay

23 Oct 2015

Oct 20, 2015 – MBARI researchers have been monitoring seawater temperatures at our M1 mooring in the middle of Monterey Bay since 1990. Biological oceanographer Francisco Chavez has been analyzing these data to find out how they reflect conditions in the Pacific Ocean as a whole.

4

Covered in anchovies

23 Oct 2015

Oct 7, 2015 – When remotely operated vehicle Ventana dove near the head of Monterey Canyon yesterday, in the area of intense whale activity, the vehicle was surrounded by the very thing attracting the whales—an incredibly thick school of anchovies.

5

Return to the USS Macon

23 Oct 2015

Aug 18, 2015 – On August 18, researchers on board the research vessel Nautilus used the ROVs Hercules and Argus to dive on the wreck of the USS Macon, a rigid-frame dirigible airship that crashed off the Big Sur coast in 1935.

6

Observing the feeding currents of larvaceans

23 Oct 2015

Jul 31, 2015 – On July 27, Kakani Katija and collaborators Alana Sherman, Dale Graves, Chad Kecy, and Bruce Robison tested DeepPIV (particle image velocimetry) using MBARI’s MiniROV. The DeepPIV instrument consists of a laser and optics that can illuminate “slices” through transparent animals (such as larvaceans) using a single plane of light.

Deploying a benthic event detector in Monterey Bay
7

International experiment tracks underwater avalanches in Monterey Canyon

15 Oct 2015

Oct 15, 2015 – Underwater avalanches and turbidity currents carry huge amounts of sediment, organic material, and pollutants down submarine canyons and into the deep sea. Yet geologists know very little about how sediment moves during these events.

8

MBARI engineers create “smart boulders” to understand how sand moves in submarine canyons

15 Oct 2015

Oct 15, 2015 – Submarine canyons are notoriously difficult to study because underwater avalanches periodically surge down the bottoms of many canyons, often burying or destroying scientific instruments.

9

Instruments used in the Coordinated Canyon Experiment

15 Oct 2015

Oct 15, 2015 – Submarine canyons are notoriously difficult to study because underwater avalanches periodically surge down the bottoms of many canyons, often burying or destroying scientific instruments. After more than a decade of placing (and sometimes losing) equipment in Monterey Canyon, MBARI researchers have created a unique new tool to study canyon processes.

10

MBARI researchers win second place in Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE competition

21 Jul 2015

Jul 21, 2015 – MBARI researchers were part of a team that recently won second place in the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE, a $2 million world-wide competition to develop an accurate and sustainable pH sensor for monitoring ocean acidification.

11

Finding Opisthoteuthis

13 Jul 2015

Jul 13, 2015 – Last Thursday, MBARI Postdoctoral Fellow Stephanie Bush and her team from the Monterey Bay Aquarium went to sea aboard the R/V Rachel Carson in Monterey Bay. They were on a mission to collect octopuses in the genus Opisthoteuthis to be used for species description and display at the aquarium.

Marcia McNutt at MBARI
12

Former MBARI president Marcia McNutt nominated to head National Academy of Sciences

09 Jul 2015

Jul 9, 2015 – Marcia McNutt, who led MBARI for 12 years, was nominated this week to lead the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The NAS prepares independent scientific reports for the federal government on science and technology issues.

Tomoptorid worm
13

Bristle worms get their turn

01 Jul 2015

Jul 1, 2015 – An amazing variety of bristle worms thrive in the ocean, both on the seafloor and up in the water column. Here are some examples of the bizarre and wonderful polychaetes that MBARI researchers have seen in the ocean depths.

14

MBARI celebrates Cephalopod Week

26 Jun 2015

Jun 26, 2015 – For the second year in a row, MBARI has partnered with the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Science Friday, the American Museum of Natural History, and other groups to present a wonderful array of cephalopod images and videos as part of “Cephalopod Week.”

15

Three long-range AUVs launched in one day

11 Jun 2015

Jun 11, 2015 – Last week, a group of MBARI engineers deployed three long-range autonomous underwater vehicles (LRAUVs). Developed at MBARI, LRAUVs can travel several thousands of kilometers in the ocean, collecting data as they go.

16

Postdoctoral Fellow Kakani Katija at TEDWomen conference

03 Jun 2015

Jun 3, 2015 – On May 28, MBARI Postdoctoral Fellow Kakani Katija presented a talk at the TEDWomen conference in Monterey about her research studying how marine organisms interact with the fluid world. As a bioengineer, she is interested in the underwater “footprints”, or wakes that organisms leave behind as they move through the water.

hydrothermal chimneys in Pescadero Basin
17

MBARI researchers discover deepest known high-temperature hydrothermal vents in Pacific Ocean

02 Jun 2015

Jun 2, 2015 – In spring 2015, MBARI researchers discovered a large, previously unknown field of hydrothermal vents in the Gulf of California, about 150 kilometers (100 miles) east of La Paz, Mexico.

diver with environmental sample processor
18

Unusually high concentrations of toxic algae detected in Monterey Bay

01 Jun 2015

Jun 1, 2015 – In May 2015, as part of a large-scale experiment, ocean researchers measured some of the highest concentrations of harmful algae and their toxin ever observed in Monterey Bay.

19

Distressed sea lions in Monterey Bay

26 May 2015

May 26, 2015 – If you’ve visited beaches in the Monterey Bay area earlier this year, you may have seen young California sea lions stranded on the beaches, weak and emaciated from lack of food. Recently, the Marine Mammal Center has reported that juvenile and sub-adult sea lions have also been stranding on beaches as a result of domoic acid poisoning.

20

SeeStar camera system displayed at Maker Faire

19 May 2015

May 19, 2015 – Scientist Steve Haddock, Electrical Engineer Chad Kecy, and Mechanical Engineer François Cazenave introduced the SeeStar camera system at the Bay Area Maker Faire, a large festival held May 16th and 17th to celebrate invention and creativity by showcasing creations that relate to science, engineering, or art.

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