Autonomous robotic rover helps scientists with long-term monitoring of deep-sea carbon cycle and climate change
November 3, 2021 – A robotic rover has provided long-term data about deep-sea carbon cycling and climate change.
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Station M: A long-term observatory on the abyssal seafloor
For 30 years, MBARI Senior Scientist Ken Smith and his colleagues have studied deep-sea communities at a research site called Station M.
Deep-sea fish communities affected by oxygen and temperature
March 5, 2020 – Research in the depths of the Gulf of California give scientists a clue as to how climate change could affect fish communities.
Station M long-term time series
The Station M study is one of the most detailed investigations of any abyssal area in the world ocean. Over this 25-year study, we have continuously monitored the amount of sinking particulate matter through the benthic boundary layer.
Newly updated Our Shared Seas website provides critical summary of ocean health
November 13, 2019 – New website brings together relevant ocean conservation data into one easy-to-use platform.
Climate change: A triple threat for the ocean
September 25, 2019 – A just-released scientific report connects a host of ocean changes with human activities that take place largely on land.
Climate change and the ocean
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.
MBARI design used in ocean-acidification experiments around the world
March 21, 2019 – Recent article highlights the world-wide use of MBARI’s FOCE design for ocean acidification experiments
Pulses of sinking carbon not captured by global climate models
December 3, 2018 – Pulses of sinking debris carry large amounts of carbon to the deep seafloor, but are poorly represented in global climate models.
Focusing on climate action
September 6, 2018 – MBARI and Monterey Bay Aquarium leaders will be participating in the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.
Making the case for ocean conservation
June 8, 2018 – Bringing to light an urgent message of ocean conservation to the public, leaders of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and Monterey Bay Aquarium wrote a column that was published in the New York Times today.
Market squid tell a tale of two krill
Apr 2, 2018 – MBARI researcher Steve Litvin is investigating the feeding habits of juvenile market squid in changing ocean conditions. It’s a tale of two krill.
Climate change produces complex effects on marine communities
May 20, 2017 – An acidic ocean has been shown to affect many species, but the impacts on entire communities are more complicated.
A seafloor robot breaks a world record and reveals new data for climate change modeling
Dec 16, 2016 – MBARI’s Benthic Rover, an autonomous seafloor crawler, recently broke it’s own world record, spending over a year autonomously crawling across the deep seafloor and collecting scientific data without any help from humans.
Canadian Arctic 2016 Expedition
A group of MBARI scientists and engineers, led by geologist Charlie Paull, returned to the Beaufort Sea on a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker to study the Arctic seafloor.
Respiration studies
The oxygen content of the entire world ocean is falling. To investigate the consequences of this large-scale change, MBARI scientists are exploring a characteristic attribute of the oceanic water column in Monterey Bay called the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ).
Sargasso Sea research
Sargassum macroalgal rafts in the Sargasso Sea are vital feeding and spawning grounds for pelagic fishes, seabirds, sea turtles and whales. How might changes in ocean conditions and Sargassum habitat impact rafting animals?
Antarctic research
Global climate change is causing Antarctic ice shelves to shrink and split apart, yielding thousands of free-drifting icebergs in the nearby Weddell Sea. These floating islands of ice are having a major impact on the ecology and chemistry of the ocean around them, serving as “hotspots” for ocean life.
Climate change in extreme environments
Our lab group uses autonomous instrumentation to study ecological responses of marine communities in extreme environments to changes in climate and carbon cycling.
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About MBARI
Research programs at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) encompass the entire ocean, from the surface waters to the deep seafloor, and from the coastal zone to the open sea. The need to understand the ocean in all its complexity and variability drives MBARI's research and development efforts.