Mapping gene linkages provides clear-cut evidence for comb jellies as sibling group to all other animals

FathomNet can help train and test computer machine-learning tools to accelerate analysis of ocean images and video.

Tracking blue whales by their booming vocalizations, researchers have revealed how these ocean giants find dense aggregations of food.

Autonomous underwater robots carrying MBARI technology use eDNA to survey biodiversity.

Repeated mapping of the Arctic seabed finds rapid changes to seafloor terrain from the degradation of submarine permafrost.

During an expedition this summer, MBARI recovered the ancient tusk of a mammoth for further study.

A robotic rover has provided long-term data about deep-sea carbon cycling and climate change.

MBARI makes its extensive archive of acoustic data accessible to researchers around the world via the Amazon Web Services cloud.

MBARI researchers demonstrated how a fleet of robotic floats can revolutionize our understanding of ocean primary productivity.

On Wednesday, June 30, at 11:00 a.m. (Pacific), MBARI will livestream its expedition to deep-sea coral and sponge gardens off Big Sur coast.

MBARI is embarking on a new chapter in its ocean research with the construction of a state-of-the-art ship named in honor of MBARI's founder.

Using advanced echosounders, MBARI researchers are measuring the distribution, abundance, type, size, and movement of predators and their prey in the deep sea.

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.

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.

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.

Throughout the world ocean, animals congregate at certain depths. A new paper in Limnology and Oceanography shows that, rather than consisting of a random mixture of animals, these deep-scattering layers contain discrete groups of squids, fishes, and crustaceans.

In the spring of 2015, Monterey Bay experienced one of the most toxic algal blooms ever. A new paper shows that this bloom became particularly toxic because of an unusually low ratio of silicate to nitrate in Bay Waters.

New laser technology is allowing MBARI scientists to look into the structure of giant larvaceans--tadpole-like marine animals that are important players in ocean ecosystems.

In the first quantitative analysis of deep-sea bioluminescence, MBARI researchers Séverine Martini and Steve Haddock show that three quarters of the animals in Monterey Bay from the surface down to 4,000 meters deep can produce their own light.

Axial Seamount, a large underwater volcano off of the Oregon coast, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, having last erupted in 2015. At the Fall 2016 meeting of the American Geophysical Union, MBARI researchers unveiled a new seafloor map that reveals previously undocumented lava flows from the 2015 eruption.