Home safe to the #RRSDiscovery after a sidescan sonar data mission in the #HaigFras marine protected area. This data helps determine the seabed substrate type which is then used to make habitat maps. ⁦@CLASS_UKRI⁩ ⁦National Oceanography Centre⁩ ⁦iAtlanticEU⁩ ⁦Natural Environment Research Council⁩

Any guesses for what sea creatures we’ll see on the #Autosub5 camera survey in #HaigFras marine protected area? I’m afraid no prizes as we’re 95km off the UK coast and are eating all available chocolate National Oceanography Centre @CLASS_UKRI Natural Environment Research Council iAtlanticEU #oceanrobots

Sidescan sonar data of the rock striations at #HaigFras marine protected area from the #Autosub5. Repeat surveys of this MPA allow us to assess its evolution over time. @CLASS_UKRI National Oceanography Centre iAtlanticEU Natural Environment Research Council #oceanrobots

What a team! Putting #BoatyMcBoatface #ALR3 to bed after a camera survey at #HaigFras marine protected area with the #BioCAM 3D visual imaging technology for mapping the seabed UoSEngineering National Oceanography Centre Natural Environment Research Council @CLASS_UKRI iAtlanticEU

Extreme fishing! The #BoatyMcBoatface recovery team attaches a hook with a rope onto the #ALR3 with a very (very) long pole. She is then winched safely onboard and charged for her next mission! ⁦National Oceanography Centre⁩ ⁦@CLASS_UKRI⁩ ⁦Natural Environment Research Council⁩ ⁦iAtlanticEU⁩ ⁩

Going to the deep! Bathysnap, a time lapse camera for deep seas (4000m), has been released from the #RRSDiscovery on #DY152. We will collect it in a month from the #RRSJamesCook on #JC237. @CLASS_UKRI Natural Environment Research Council #SMARTEX National Oceanography Centre

New #Autosub5 multibeam data at 4000m in the #WhittardCanyon marine protected area. Submarine canyons often support increased diversity in habitats and species. AUVs allow us to map these deep areas in high resolution! National Oceanography Centre @CLASS_UKRI iAtlanticEU Natural Environment Research Council #oceanrobots

We’re off! To the depths of the eastern branch of the #WhittardCanyon with our camera and claw equipped ROV to look at coral walls, avalanche deposits and the distribution of organic carbon and plastics in canyons National Oceanography Centre @CLASS_UKRI iAtlanticEU JNCC

Interested in benthic ecosystems like this? Help us record the biodiversity in seafloor photographs of the Clarion Clipperton Zone. Two great job opportunities National Oceanography Centre. Help understand the effects of #DeepSeaMining Be a Benthic Megafaunal Annotator careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/benthi…

Some basket stars giving this rock ledge a lovely framed haircut at 1900m depth in Explorer Canyon. Caught on camera by the #ROVIsis, wish us safe piloting tonight!⁦National Oceanography Centre⁩ ⁦@CLASS_UKRI⁩ ⁦iAtlanticEU⁩ ⁦JNCC⁩

Drilling for rock samples in the #WhittardCanyon to groundtruth the #ROVIsis footage so we can understand species preference for rock type. ⁦National Oceanography Centre⁩ ⁦@CLASS_UKRI⁩ ⁦iAtlanticEU⁩ ⁦JNCC⁩

Small, medium or large? We have 3 options to core on #JC237. The #ROVIsis takes short pushcores using live camera footage whilst the larger mega and gravity cores penetrate deeper into the sediment. ⁦Marine Geosciences⁩ ⁦National Oceanography Centre⁩ ⁦iAtlanticEU⁩ ⁦@CLASS_UKRI⁩

Exploring life in the Porcupine abyssal plane at 4800 m water depth onboard of the RRS James Cook #jc237 OGS @CLASS_UKRI iAtlanticEU National Oceanography Centre JNCC

Farewell #WhittardCanyon on #JC237. We see your ‘number of deployments = number of recoveries’ Alexander Phillips on #DY152 and raise you 2 recoveries!!! National Oceanography Centre @CLASS_UKRI iAtlanticEU #oceanrobots

Women assemble! Great to spend #WomenInScienceDay with these awesome women exploring the #SMARTEXCCZ on the #RRSJamesCook National Oceanography Centre Natural History Museum Science at the Natural History Museum British Geological Survey

A descent to the abyss for a #multibeamsurvey at the #SmartexCCZ using the #ROVIsis to map the seabed collector test location. Wish us luck and lots of coffee as we’ll be flying at 50m so no cucumber sightings! ⁦National Oceanography Centre⁩ ⁩ ⁦⁦Science at the Natural History Museum⁩ ⁦British Geological Survey⁩

NOC Scientists have embarked on a month-long research expedition that seeks to reduce risk of extracting metals on the sea floor. ⛏️ Find out more about the SMARTEX project and the aims of the expedition here ➡️ noc.ac.uk/news/new-exped… #smartexccz

If you’d like to hear me talk about the #HungaVolcano #eruption #volcanoes and marine #geohazards in general then check out this National Oceanography Centre podcast. The work of so many people so poorly credited by me but, as ever, we couldn’t do this work without all our incredible collaborators.

Read our new interdisciplinary paper to understand how internal tides influence canyon fauna distributions #cwcs #deepsea #internaltides doi.org/10.3389/fmars.…

Different types of maps reveal different characteristics. The #CliffReefs expedition is examining substrates & ecosystems around the #Galápagos, mapping them with both light+sound, hoping to explore new areas and study them in fine detail. Full video: schmidtocean.org/cruise-log-pos… 1/2