Ocean lovers can now listen to the sounds of Monterey Bay live on the web or through Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa.

MBARI researchers recently found that animals living on the deep seafloor are much less likely to produce light than those swimming or drifting in the “midwater.”

A new exhibit at the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Exploration Center features recordings from MBARI's deep-sea hydrophone.

MBARI Senior Research Technician Roman Marin III passed away unexpectedly last month.

A just-released scientific report connects a host of ocean changes with human activities that take place largely on land.

Climate change has serious, long-term, and far-reaching negative consequences for our ocean. We present facts and resources to learn about climate change and the ocean.

Researchers test methods to restore deep-sea corals via translocation at Sur Ridge.

A new study shows how the amount of humpback song in Monterey Bay varies over days, months, and even years.

A new paper summarizes the quirky sexual and reproductive behaviors of octopuses, squids, and their relatives.

In a recent study, researchers compiled data from 18 years of rare video observations on deep-water skates.

MBARI celebrates the 150th deployment of its first long-range autonomous underwater vehicle, Tethys.

Researchers from MBARI and NOAA are using underwater robots and a robotic laboratory to study potentially toxic algal blooms in Lake Erie.

Alison Sweeney I have been invited along on this expedition as a guest with Kakani’s group, from my biophysics lab at Yale University. Kakani’s group is interested in mechanical bioinspiration—how do very small animals move through water? The answers are often very counterintuitive. In my case, I am interested in optical bioinspiration, where life’s solutions …

  Hi, I’m Joost Daniels and I’m a research tech in the Bioinspiration Group. In true Bioinspiration fashion, my main job on this week-long cruise consists of two parts: bringing the lab to the ocean, and bringing the ocean to the lab. For the former, we’ve brought our DeepPIV instrument along, mounted on the remotely …

A new research paper by MBARI and Taiwanese researchers shows how mysterious hills and pits may have formed in the deep seafloor off Taiwan.

I joined MBARI in February of this year to work with Kakani Katija and the Bioinspiration Group to build EyeRIS, perhaps the first ever deep-sea plenoptic (3D) imaging system. This project, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, aims to develop a suite of 3D imaging systems for studying particle fields, small-scale fluid mechanics, …

  I’m Susan von Thun and I work in MBARI’s video lab. The video lab is the group that takes all of the video produced from the many MBARI video platforms and archives it in a centralized video library. We watch the video, recording observations about the ocean life, habitat, equipment, and anything of interest …

Diana Li This year, I received the best birthday present—an invitation to go on a six-day expedition out in Monterey Bay on the R/V Western Flyer with Kakani Katija’s BioInspiration Group at MBARI! Hey y’all, my name is Diana Li, and I’m a recent graduate from Stanford’s Ph.D. program in Biology. I studied how the …

Study confirms that autonomously collected samples of eDNA are equivalent to samples collected using traditional, manual methods.

The UN is urged to include the midwater in upcoming discussions about management of life in the open ocean.