With The Ocean Agency, HP & D&AD we asked designers to illustrate the great adventure that is #oceanscience. If the #OceanDecade were a movie, what would the poster look like? 📽️Discover the 1st runner up poster in the competition by Thom Farrall and Liam Campbell, UK. 👇

Let’s take action to reverse the negative impacts of Covid by first recognizing them. Almost A Year Into The Pandemic, Working Moms Feel 'Forgotten,' Journalist Says : NPR npr.org/2021/02/18/968…

Recognizing International Women’s Day so that one day we will do it everyday. pin.it/7dW0PIH

Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI) announces the acquisition of a new research vessel, formerly known as Polar Queen, built 2011. To continue The Neverending Story theme, is re-named Falkor (too), as it will continue the never-ending journey of the SOI’s mission to explore the ocean

Excited to see Ingenuity succeeding with the same engineering team and Terrain Relative Navigation software as in our full-ocean depth AUV Orpheus! Go team! Fingers crossed.

More visitors from the never-before visited deep end of the Philippine Trench. This beautiful creature, living in total darkness its whole life, is the hadal decapod Benthesicymus crenatus. Filmed it at 7000m, obviously enjoying its feast. #hadalfeast

Just in from Mars 🔴 Get an update on the #MarsHelicopter, the science ARCHIVED - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover is doing while we eagerly await 1st flight, and learn about another technology demonstration – the oxygen-converter MOXIE.

Here’s a view of #AUVOrpheus on Okeanos Explorer with the recently landed SpaceX Falcon 9 lower stage in the background. Seems like we have everyone from #ocean and #space exploration in the house today. With NOAA Ocean Exploration NASA JPL

A major focus of the #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition is Corallivory-- Animals that eat live coral. If you want an example of what that looks like, here it is!

Checking out the coral associates is how ⁦Tim Shank⁩ is spending #WorldOceanDay aboard the ⁦Schmidt Ocean⁩ R/V Falkor!

A spiraling golden octocoral (Iridogorgia) reaches out into the moving current to catch food from the cold waters of the deep ocean. From the first #PhoenixIslandsCoral ROV dive. RV Falkor is in transit to next dive site, so more dives in next few days 🤞schmidtocean.org/cruise/discove…

The first cruise contributing to the Challenger 150 programme ⬇️ Don’t miss this!

Discovering biodiversity of coral ecosystems with the ROV Subastian on a high seas seamount near the Phoenix Islands Archipelago. Schmidt Ocean.

Dive 422 of #PhoenixIslandsCorals is starting now! SuBastian is diving on the Northeastern ridge of Howland Island in the Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monument. youtu.be/DVVu9ubHVOg

Starting our 4th dive of #PheonixIslandsCorals at Howland Island. Running up a ridge northeast of the island that was discovered by George Worth in 1822 (named Worth Island) then rediscovered in 1842 and named after the lookout. ⁦Schmidt Ocean⁩ ⁦Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)⁩

Whale shark seen by ROV Subastian off Howland Island at 671 meters! Join the dive @Phoenixislandcorals. ⁦Schmidt Ocean⁩ ⁦Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)⁩

. The recent Schmidt Ocean expedition to @Phoenix_Islands and USFWS Pacific #PRIMNM with Shank Lab and Dr. Randi Rotjan revealed some amazing new discoveries. It just goes to show you—the more we explore the ocean, the more we find. ow.ly/XMcM50FxHdi MT Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)