The white microbial mats seen here are telltale signs of areas where methane may be released from underground methane deposits. Credit: Andrew Thurber Oregon State…
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The ultra-black Pacific blackdragon (Idiacanthus antrostomus), the second-blackest fish studied by the research team. These fish have a bioluminescent lure that they use to attract…
Manganese oxide nodules generated by the bacteria discovered by the Caltech team. The nodules are generally about 0.1 to 0.5 millimeters in diameter. Images are…
Credit: Jeffrey C. Chase Microbial cells are found in abundance in marine sediments beneath the ocean and make up a significant amount of the total…
A phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea turned surface waters a milky blue in July 2016. Credit: Jeff Schmaltz and Joshua Stevens, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response,…
A checkerboard pattern of low (blue) and high (red) pressure areas moving eastward through time, generated by just two of the ringing vibrations of the…
The “Triaxus” towing platform breaks through the choppy surface of the ocean during a storm. By towing such a platform with monitoring instruments through the…
In a study published recently in Ecology and Evolution, an international team of researchers focused on what can happen to ocean ecosystems when fishing pressure increases…
A colony of Leptoseris hawaiiensis at 315 feet in the Au’au Channel Hawaii. Credit: Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, University of Hawaii New research published in…
MIT scientists suggest sea ice extent in the Southern Ocean may increase with glacial melting in Antarctica. This image shows a view of the Earth…
Islands in the Maldives – where sandy or gravel islands sit on top of coral reef platforms – are among those that could be affected…
In this image captured on July 20, 2019, the streaks, eddies, and whirls of the late summer blooms, mixed by winds and currents, are clearly…
Mangroves in Tampa, Florida. Credit: Kerrylee Rogers/University of Wollongong Mangrove trees – valuable coastal ecosystems found in Florida and other warm climates – won’t survive…
The extent to which rivers transport burned carbon to oceans — where it can be stored for tens of millennia — is revealed in new…
A machine-learning technique developed at MIT combs through global ocean data to find commonalities between marine locations, based on interactions between phytoplankton species. Using this…
The same area of Scott Reef photographed in 2010, and again in 2012 after Cyclone Lua. Credit: James Gilmour/AIMS Research finds current models underestimate the…
Hydrocarbon seep in the southern Gulf of Mexico emitting a viscous petroleum, much like asphalt. Hydrocarbons serve as an energy source for microbes and in…
Life in the deep sea (>200m). Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute The world’s deep oceans are warming at a slower rate than the surface, but it’s…
Brazilian cow nose ray, never known north of the Gulf of Mexico, found in the Atlantic off New Jersey by DNA scientists. Credit: Jacques Burkhardt…
The 75-station pattern is typical for summer and fall cruises by CalCOFI, which has collected data on marine life and ocean conditions off the California…