Deep-sea animals at Station M live off of debris sinking down from above. This same debris is important for global climate models. Image: © 2017 MBARIPulses of sinking carbon are reaching the deep sea in ways not captured by global climate models
Deep-sea animals at Station M live off of debris sinking down from above. This same debris is important for global climate models. Image: © 2017 MBARI
December 3, 2018 – A new study by MBARI scientists shows that pulses of sinking debris carry large amounts of carbon to the deep seafloor, but are poorly represented in global climate models.
Bringing the Southern Ocean into the classroom
Dec 6 2018 – Adopt-A-Float program lets grade-school students participate in a major scientific study of the vast Southern Ocean.
“Zombie” shrimp play dead to avoid being eaten
November 28, 2018 – Deep in the Gulf of California MBARI researchers watched shrimp "play dead" by hanging motionless in the water. They speculate that the shrimp do this to avoid being eaten.
Tracking carbon from the ocean surface into the depths
Nov 26, 2018 – Scientists know that the ocean is taking up a lot of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Marine chemist Andrea Fassbender is bringing this process into focus by studying how carbon moves between the atmosphere, upper ocean, and deep sea.
