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Well, that was a lot of krill! The bottom screen shows the view from the remotely operated vehicle Ventana's camera and…
Posted by Pelagic Ecology Lab at MBARI on Wednesday, May 10, 2017
2017
- 07/10/17: “Undersea robot reveals “schools” of animals in deep scattering layers” — MBARI
- 05/10/17: “Field Instruments: Build it yourself” — Nature
- 02/24/17: “MBARI researcher wins project-of-the-year award” — MBARI
2016
- 10/07/16: “New MBARI scientist uses sound to study ocean predators and their prey” — MBARI
- 02/23/16: “Paper demonstrates autonomous underwater vehicles can be pre-programmed to make independent decisions” — Phys.org
- 02/18/16: “Whale-guided research reveals the oceans’ true biology” — Earth Times
2015
- 02/24/15: “OSU undersea gliders will use acoustics to track marine animals” — The Oregonian
- 12/01/15: “Submarines and Sea Monkeys” — Scientific American
2014
- 07/01/14: “Cool Jobs: A whale of a time” — Science News for Students
2013
- 03/28/13: “Stanford biologist gets a squid’s eye view —Stanford News
2012
- 09/05/12: “Marine Acoustics” — Pop!Tech (Video)
- 05/05/12: “Coordinated Hunting in Red Devils” —Deep Sea News
2011
- 04/01/11: “Kelly Benoit-Bird: Sounding the Deep” —The Scientist
2010
- 09/28/10: “Kelly Benoit-Bird Receives MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award” —MacArthur Foundation
“…This spatial ballet, played in weightless three-dimensional darkness, has likely been part of the oceans since the oceans were brought to life: layers of life gathering in extremely high densities to feed or to avoid being eaten.”
MBARI researchers share research stories at American Museum of Natural History
Feb 28, 2018 – Two of MBARI's newer researchers—Kelly Benoit-Bird and Kakani Katija—are being featured in a program at the American Museum of Natural History.
Murres dive into acoustic ecology
Sept 19, 2017 – An unusual data signal recorded in the ocean with an echosounder turned out not to be fish, but diving seabirds.
Speeding up sound sampling
Aug 11, 2017 – Sound may be weightless, but echosounders aren’t. To study Monterey Bay’s ecology, Scientist Kelly Benoit-Bird uses an echosounder with five different transducers, weighing about 165 pounds.
Undersea robot reveals “schools” of animals in deep scattering layers
Jul 10, 2017 – 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.
MBARI researcher wins project-of-the-year award
Feb 24, 2017 - The US Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program recently selected one of Kelly Benoit-Bird’s research as its Resource Conservation and Climate Change Project of the Year.
New MBARI scientist uses sound to study ocean predators and their prey
Oct 7, 2016 - MBARI’s newest senior scientist, Kelly Benoit-Bird, uses sound to observe animals such as seabirds and dolphins as they chase their prey underwater.
