Mini remotely operated vehicle
The MiniROV is used to conduct shallow water transects and make in situ observations. The vehicle is electrically powered, so it is much quieter than a normal-sized ROV.
Team
Deep particle image velocimetry
Here you see the laser sheet illuminating cross sections (from anterior to posterior end) of a larvacean (Bathochordaeus) house.
Publications
Feely, Richard A., Okazaki, Remy R., Cai, Wei-Jun, Bednaršek, Nina, Alin, Simone R., Byrne, Robert H., Fassbender, Andrea, (2018). The combined effects of acidification and hypoxia on pH and aragonite saturation in the coastal waters of the California current ecosystem and the northern Gulf of Mexico. Continental Shelf Research, 152: 50-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2017.11.002
Breusing, C., Vrijenhoek, R. C., Reusch, T. B., (2017). Widespread introgression in deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17: 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0862-2
Brewer, Peter G., Peltzer, Edward T., Walz, Peter M., Wojciechowicz, Matthew, (2017). The speciation of water in sea water and in gelatinous marine animals. Marine Chemistry, 195: 94-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2017.05.002
Choi, C. J., Bachy, C., Jaeger, G. S., Poirier, C., Sudek, L., Sarma, V.V.S.S., Mahadevan, A., Giovannoni, S. J., Worden, A. Z., (2017). Newly discovered deep-branching marine plastid lineages are numerically rare but globally distributed. Current Biology, 27: R15-R16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.11.032
Choy, C. A., Haddock, S. H. D., Robison, B. H., (2017). Deep pelagic food web structure as revealed by in situ feeding observations. Proc Biol Sci, 284: . http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2116
