Did you ever wonder whether #birds use or depend on #coral reefs? Or if birds might be affected by coral bleaching? Our new paper w Víctor Huertas Nicholas James + Chia Miin Chua develops novel framework + reviews evidence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… #CoralReef #seabird #fishes

Manganese nodules are at the center of deep-sea mining debates. They begin as a mere fragment: a bit of rock or shell enveloped by precipitates of manganese, iron oxides, other metals (cobalt&zinc). It grows slowly, millimeters per million years. This one is about size of potato

Field survey is going on at our most challenging restoration site, Gangapur. We are applying some indigenous techniques to increase the siltation, which will help natural regeneration of commonly available mangrove propagules. #mangroverestoration #Indiansundarbans

Liverpool docks as a novel ecosystem - a huge amount of collaborative work by us all across the decades, led by Steve Hawkins & Louise Firth authors.elsevier.com/c/1jjSxB8cd0ThB University of Liverpool livuniEcoMar MBA - Marine Biological Association

The #EruptionArchives team are collecting push core samples from seafloor to examine impacts of a volcanic eruption in 2008 & its effect on surrounding ocean ecosystems. They spotted this grenadier during dive east of Isla Chulin. More about expedition: schmidtocean.org/cruise/fire-an…

Check out this comprehensive faunal inventory of methane seeps along the Pacific margin of Costa Rica, identifying 487 morphospecies, including 57 potentially undescribed species preprints.arphahub.com/article/135174/ #Preprint #DeepSea #DeepSeaEcosystems #MethaneSeeps

Y'all, one of the SmallWorld winners is a cowboy tardigrade riding a nematode!! 🪱🤠 Credit: Quinten Geldhof

#Squidtember just keeps on giving with some new #deepsea vision of 𝘐𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴. Hot on the tentacles of our last post 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘢 this 'Whip-lash' squid graced our cameras at 1000 metres deep in the Tonga Trench. Alan Jamieson UWA Inkfish

MBARI researchers and their collaborators have discovered large underwater ice formations in a remote region of the Arctic. This discovery reveals an unanticipated mechanism for the ongoing formation of submarine permafrost ice. Dive in: mbari.org/news/new-mbari…

#MappingUpdate! We've mapped our first region of northern seamounts near Howland and Baker Islands: an area accounting for 11,120km2! The top photo shows before and the bottom photo after: three out of the five seamounts you see in the image are newly mapped.

Our latest paper is out Current Biology ! About #ctenophore fusion!! Fused ctenos synchronized muscle contractions and shared their digestive canal! Tommi Anttonen Dr. Mariana Rodriguez Oscar Arenas The Grass Foundation Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)

The #NazcaHighSeas science team observed this squid, which they suspect is an Ancistrocheirus lesueuri, or sharpear enope squid, during the first test dive of a recent expedition in the high seas off the coast of Chile. Happy #WorldSquidDay!

Why does it look like a clown toupe running away? 😭 Polychaete & urchin. Schmidt Ocean dive 725 #ChileMargin2024

A new type of #plasticpollution, "plastiskin", and its potential negative effects on the photosynthetic efficiency of #macroalgae, and other effects on intertidal organisms #benthicorganisms #plastics #benthos #marineinvertebrates #intertidalecology