MBARI engineers recently conducted a shipless deployment of a long-range autonomous underwater vehicle from the beach adjacent to our research facilities.

Etchemendy’s steady hand guided the vessels and vehicles at the core of MBARI’s work.

MBARI and USGS will develop a robotic sampler to detect invasive species, pathogens, and parasites.

Work continues on the R/V David Packard at Freire Shipyard in Spain.

The Western Flyer will become a sailing classroom to inspire and educate a new generation of ocean explorers.

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

With funding from the National Science Foundation, MBARI and our collaborators will develop a machine-learning platform to process ocean video and imagery.

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

Follow the expedition log as MBARI and our collaborators return to a remote part of the Arctic.

Any interdisciplinary research expedition undoubtedly has some subdivisions even though we share a common goal. Expedition ARA13C is no exception; we have teams dedicated to seafloor mapping, geophysics, coring, oceanography, microbiology, mercury and methane, just to name a few.

Today was a big day for the MBARI Mapping Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs): we ran both of our vehicles with “spin-down” deployments in the Arctic Ocean!

Coring is perhaps the most in-depth activity we will do on the Araon, as it provides a rare chance to extract a vertical tube of “time” that could represent just a few years to hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years.

Greetings from the Canadian Beaufort Sea! The IBRV Araon departed Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska, on August 24 and entered Canadian waters on August 26.

Local marine biologist inspired an appreciation for the ocean, and played a major role in defining MBARI’s research path.

Greetings from the IBRV Araon! We are still stationary about two kilometers offshore of Utqiagvik, formerly Barrow, Alaska. It is a few minutes after local noon—our original departure time.

MBARI researchers and our collaborators are working to document deep-sea biodiversity, and finding remarkable species.

New facility will provide critical support for ocean exploration and research as well as shoreside benefits for the Moss Landing community.

Explore MBARI’s recent deep-sea discoveries on YouTube.

Karl Pister, former MBARI board member and UC Santa Cruz chancellor, died on May 14, 2022.

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