Expedition Type: MBARI

June 11-17, 2019 – The Midwater Ecology Group is studying and collecting midwater animals in conjunction with collaborators from the Stanford University and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

May 30-June 4, 2019 – A fleet of smart, autonomous instruments in parallel with shipboard sampling will give a fuller picture of the behavior and variability of marine life.

April 19 to April 24, 2019 – The Benthic biology and ecology group is heading out to study deep-sea communities in three different environments.

March 8-14, 2019 – The Midwater Ecology Group is measuring oxygen consumption rates of select deep-sea animals using a custom-designed tool, the Midwater Respirometry System (MRS).

February 4 to 14, 2019 – MBARI’s Geological Changes group is investigating the activity of submarine channels, gullies, and pockmarks as well as beginning to conduct post-lay impacts of submarine telecommunications cables.

November 30 to December 5, 2018 – The Benthic biology and ecology group is heading out to study deep-sea communities in three different environments.

November 9-17, 2018 – The Midwater Ecology Group is measuring oxygen consumption rates of select deep-sea animals using a custom-designed tool, the Midwater Respirometry System (MRS).

November 1-12, 2018 – The Zooplankton biodiversity group is working to answer questions about the biochemical, physiological, and genetic adaptations that ctenophores have evolved to help them survive and diversify in the deep sea.

October 21-31, 2018 – MBARI Postdoctoral Fellow Amanda Kahn is aboard the E/V Nautilus, exploring the Davidson Seamount with the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

October 17-25, 2018 – The Pelagic-Benthic Coupling Group traveled out to Station M to service autonomous instruments that have been down at 4,000 meters for the past year.