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Check out what we found in the deep Southern Ocean... frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Several animal carcasses including a penguin and a baleen whale! These "food falls" provide chunks of energy to the deep-sea. Thank you Autun Purser @griffiths_huw Craig Smith and Henk-Jan Hoving

Hi all! The latest paper put together with our data from the Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS) has just been published! Thanks team Julian Stauffer, Craig Smith, Henk-Jan Hoving, @griffiths_huw and all the scientific party and crew of PS118.

New #SFMasterworks edition of NEUROMANCER by William Gibson is out today! zenoagency.com/news/new-sf-ma… William Gibson Published by Gollancz.

Deep-sea cake: lemony Antarctic icefish nests 😃 doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Wow. I am soooo happy that our fish nest discovery has even inspired the world of avant-garde cake design!

⁦Our ⁦Autun Purser⁩ won this year‘s ⁦AWI Media⁩ Science Award for his great work on fish nests in the #WeddelSea, #Antarctica 👏👏👏! Stay tuned for the next exciting discoveries from the Molloy Deep!

We are recently back from a fantastic cruise to the Central Arctic (RV Polarstern, PS138). Here is a stunning photo taken with our towed camera system of a cirrate octopus, at 2000 m , adjacent to the Gakkel Ridge ultraslow spreading ridge... A beauty!!!

During our recent PS138 expedition to the high Arctic I managed to squeeze in time to make a number of illustrations of the unusual areas of seafloor visited. Here, at 2000 m depth, we see many filter feeding sponges far below the ice...

On our research vessels the technicians are generally 'as equally' (err, far more!) important as us scientists... Here Axel does some sort of magic, turning wires and metal into something useful...

The underside of arctic ice can be covered with thick algae. When the ice melts, the algae sinks to the seafloor, becoming a useful dinner for deep sea animals, such as these happy sea cucumbers...

I very, very infrequently leave the warmth of the RV Polarstern icebreaker for long. I dont mind sketching the ice physicists and ice biologists doing, ohh, i dont know what...

Such a shame about Christopher Priest. I loved his books. He was kind enough to let me make an illustration for my 'Fantastic Travel Destinations' series of designs - the first writer I approached and very supportive. A splendid set of books, and considered writing on fiction too