MBARI submersible makes one thousandth dive
December 26, 2017 – Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Doc Ricketts completed its one thousandth dive on December 21, 2017, marking a significant milestone for the vehicle and its team of pilots.
December 26, 2017 – Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Doc Ricketts completed its one thousandth dive on December 21, 2017, marking a significant milestone for the vehicle and its team of pilots.
December 11, 2017 – Results of the Coordinated Canyon Experiment presented at the Fall 2017 meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Dec 7, 2017 – The first of the three MBARI autonomous vehicles designed to document microbial diversity in the ocean will be deployed off the Hawaiian coast on Friday.
Dec 6, 2017 – A new paper by MBARI researchers Anela Choy, Steve Haddock, and Bruce Robison documents the first comprehensive study of deep-sea food webs.
November 30, 2017 – MBARI has partnered with The Nature Conservancy and other organizations to design a new camera system for counting threatened rockfish.
November 16, 2017 – MBARI and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary recently worked together to create an illustrated field guide to Sur Ridge, an underwater mountain range off the Big Sur coast.
November 14, 2017 – Remotely operated vehicle Ventana is undergoing an overhaul while its host, MBARI research vessel Rachel Carson, is in the shipyard for an important engine upgrade.
Oct 26, 2017 – Why do certain coastal areas become meccas for wildlife? A new computer model by MBARI researchers can predict the locations of such biological hotspots.
Oct 2, 2017 – A recent field experiment in Yellowstone National Park saw MBARI researchers dodging hordes of tourists and herds of elk while searching for “brain-eating amoebae.”
Sept 26, 2017 – A science illustration student was inspired by a visit to MBARI to create a series of animations to show the inner workings of MBARI’s autonomous underwater vehicles.
Sept 19, 2017 – An unusual data signal recorded in the ocean with an echosounder turned out not to be fish, but diving seabirds.
Sept 13, 2017 – Aerial platforms such as UAVs, or drones, as they are more commonly known, are making headway into scientific applications due to the variety of remote sensing capabilities they offer.
Sept 5, 2017 – Marine biologists describe three new species of predatory sponges that live in the depths off California and Baja California.
Aug 30, 2017 – MBARI oceanographer John Ryan and his colleagues discovered that whale sharks swim across the Eastern Tropical Pacific following fronts—dynamic boundaries between warm and cold ocean waters.
Aug 16, 2017 – A new paper by MBARI researchers shows that filter-feeding animals called giant larvaceans can collect and consume microplastic particles, potentially carrying microplastics to the deep seafloor.
Aug 11, 2017 – Sound may be weightless, but echosounders aren’t. To study Monterey Bay’s ecology, Scientist Kelly Benoit-Bird uses an echosounder with five different transducers, weighing about 165 pounds.
Aug 8, 2017 – Guests sometimes join MBARI expeditions, but a special kind of visitor dropped in on a recent research cruise.
Aug 2, 2017 – The institute opened its doors to the public, providing visitors with a once-a-year opportunity to talk with scientists, engineers, and marine operations crews about their work.
Aug 3, 2017 – MBARI’s Environmental Sample Processors (ESPs), originally designed to study toxic algal blooms in the ocean, are now being used to protect municipal drinking-water supplies.
Jul 24, 2017 – Despite their close proximity, two recently discovered hydrothermal vent fields in the Gulf of California host very different animal communities. This finding contradicts a common scientific assumption that neighboring vents will share similar animal communities.