Lophelia is rising from the depths! Lophelia.org is being brought back up to date and the site will advance alongside the ongoing deep sea research being conducted globally. Get ready for our site and social media to become as lively as our cold water coral reefs!

Great meeting @gillians_voice and the team from #BluePlanetUK. Check out the UK's very own coral reefs tonight on BBC One! Lophelia.org Eu_ATLAS School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh Natural Environment Research Council

#MEDWAVES always draws a crowd around the ROV live-feed from the sponge grounds and corals of the Gazul volcano.

Read more on the conjunction of humans & natural elements on the MEDWAVES cruise medwavesblog.wordpress.com

Can you spot San Miguel island? Excited #MEDWAVES scientists can! Land ho! But more #eu_ATLAS work to be done yet..

#MEDWAVES and #eu_atlas find the coral Solenosmilia variabilis at the Formigas Complex off the Azores,1500 m deep

Deep on the Formigas Complex off the Azores, Medwaves and #eu_atlas find a hotspot of black corals and gorgonians

Fishing is banned on the Formigas Complex, lucky for this orange roughy our ROV saw during Medwaves and #eu_atlas

Conger eel cannibalises one of its own in front of shocked but slightly curious Medwaves and #eu_atlas scientists

New discovery: rich coral gardens deep on the Formigas Complex off the Azores during Medwaves and #eu_atlas cruise

Pheronema sponge grounds discovered deep on the Formigas Complex off the Azores: samples for #eu_atlas barcoding

Hope we can improve #deepseadata coverage in the N-Atlantic with Eu_ATLAS Deep-Sea SponGES #ABYSSLINE USGS INDEEP NOAA Coral Program etal

PhD available Sebastian Hennige Modelling how corals apply the Goldilocks Principle. Details tinyurl.com/jop4nvt. Apply tinyurl.com/jtr8d7k

The Eu_ATLAS #MEDWAVES cruise reported on euronews euronews.com/2016/11/14/a-t…

Deep coral connections and their vulnerability to climate change x.com/jmurrayroberts…

Deep-sea Corals need protection - National Geographic profile Dr Sandra Brooke bit.ly/2iB9OS9

Final preparations for the 2nd ATLAS GA complete. Looking forward to starting bright & early tomorrow! #H2020

New Phylogenetic list of the 735 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species now online lophelia.org/images/stories… Smithsonian

New PhD on “Blue carbon and ecosystem engineers in a changing world” - deadline 1 week away! findaphd.com/search/project…

Lophelia is preparing to resurface from the depths! Expect changes, exciting things coming soon…..