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The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute: Advancing marine science and engineering to understand our changing ocean.

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Eavesdropping on ocean giants 🐳

MBARI's Blue Whale Observatory is a network of instruments that records whale calls, krill activity, and ocean conditions in Monterey Bay. These recordings reveal more about the ecological dynamics that shape these gentle giants’ lives.
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My latest for American Scientist is all about FathomVerse, a MBARI community science initiative where you can help scientists to identify deep sea weirdos. Get good at the game and you might get to be the first human being ever to see a new species!
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🧪 🌊 🧬 Environmental DNA is a powerful tool that can transform monitoring of ocean health. MBARI technology to collect the genetic fingerprints of marine life is central to the new National Aquatic eDNA Strategy released by @WHOSTP.

Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-t...

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🦑 🧪 🌊 The octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) is unusual among squids—having 8 arms instead of 10. As they mature into adults, their two feeding tentacles are reabsorbed into their bodies.

Dive in and learn more about the octopus squid!
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🦑 🧪 🌊 A new look at footage recorded by one of MBARI’s deep-sea robots during an expedition to the Gulf of California has revealed a new deep-sea squid that broods giant eggs.

Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbaris-...

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🧪🦈🌊 As we approach #WorldOceanDay, we’re reflecting on 36 years of ocean exploration with MBARI’s ROV Ventana. In operation since 1988, this robotic submersible has logged more than 4,500 dives—the most science dives of any ROV in the world.

Dive in with us! 🤖💦⁠ youtu.be/Lq2Ce2zTvDI?... #OneOcean

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New research by a group of scientists—including MBARI Adjunct Karen Osborn—has revealed the remarkable visual systems of hyperiid amphipods, shrimp-like crustaceans that live in the ocean’s twilight zone. 

 WATCH a video featuring some of these remarkable deep-sea animals: youtu.be/9k3njDVJIfI?...

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🧪🌊 New research on a field of pockmarks—large, circular depressions on the seafloor—offshore of Central California has revealed that powerful sediment flows, not methane gas eruptions, maintain these prehistoric formations.

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Our research is filling in the gaps in scientists’ baseline knowledge of rarely-seen deep-sea skate species. These data are especially important as climate change and overfishing continue to threaten biological communities.

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While we know a lot about the skates and rays that dwell in shallow coastal waters, we know relatively little about those that call the ocean’s inky depths their home.

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Skates and rays are fishes related to sharks. They have a distinct, flattened body, and they swim and glide using a pair of large, wing-like fins.

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👾It’s finally here! 👾The community science mobile game that we’ve been working on with our fronds at FathomVerse and @mbarinews.bsky.social is now available for FREE in the Google Play and Apple App stores! Download it here: www.fathomverse.game

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MBARI welcomes our new Director of Marine Operations!⛴️

Kaya Johnson will oversee the team that operates MBARI’s research vessels and deploys our advanced underwater robots.
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If you've ever seen a siphonophore, it's probably a Portuguese Man o' War (bluebottle) washed up on the beach. When they're babies, though, Physalia live below the surface. We collected some tiny ones, 20m deep while blue-water scuba diving off Hawaii, shown with a pencil for scale. 🦑🌊

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Open-access review of life in the deep-sea water-column, by me and Anela Choy...
Come learn how animals survive and thrive down in the depths of the ocean, how scientists study them, and what's to come. 🦑 🧪 🌊 www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Velella typically live on the surface of the open ocean far from shore, propelled by winds pushing on their tiny sails.

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Velella typically live on the surface of the open ocean far from shore, propelled by winds pushing on their tiny sails.

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In the spring, beaches along the west coast of the US can be covered by thousands to millions of blue jellyfish relatives called Velella velella, the by-the-wind sailors.🧵

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In the spring, beaches can be covered by thousands to millions of blue jellyfish relatives called Velella velella, the by-the-wind sailors. Velella typically live on the surface of the open ocean far from shore, propelled by winds pushing on their tiny sails. www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

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Sit back and enjoy 10 relaxing minutes at the Octopus Garden 🐙

Deep below the ocean’s surface, thousands of pearl octopus (Muusoctopus robustus) gather near an extinct underwater volcano off the California coast to mate and nest: youtu.be/aZ1RrgtCa4E?...

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Meet MBARI: The Video Lab is the team at the heart of our stunning deep-sea video

MBARI's unique archive of deep-sea video includes over 10 million observations about what we see on video.

Learn more about the team at the heart of this treasure trove of visual data: youtu.be/5I8Tplpe-IQ?...

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Meet the pigbutt worm! 🧪🌎🦑

When our team first spotted the unusual pigbutt worm (Chaetopterus pugaporcinus) a half mile below the ocean surface, they had a tough time determining how to categorize such a curious critter.

Dive in on our #AnimalsOfTheDeep gallery: www.mbari.org/animal/pigbu...

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Dive into MBARI's 2023 Annual Report. 🌊 

The digital report shares how our team has developed technology to assess and track ocean health, visualize the seafloor in remarkable detail, and even monitor an octopus nursery. 

Explore the report: annualreport.mbari.org/2023/

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🧪🦑🐡🌎 Bringing the deep sea to land, one ride at a time A new collaboration between MBARI and Santa Cruz METRO is introducing commuters to the amazing animals of the deep and raising awareness about the deep sea.

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🧪🦑🐡🦈🌎 Tunas, sharks, and other predators play an important role in ocean ecosystems, but remain challenging to study. MBARI’s new Piscivore system combines advanced robots, cameras, and AI to study these elusive ocean predators.

Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/innovat...

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MBARI engineers have invested a decade in research and development for the long-range autonomous underwater vehicle (LRAUV). Autonomous robots are essential to the future of marine science, engineering, and exploration.
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🧪 It’s not always rainbows and robots on Monterey Bay, but sometimes it is! 🌈 You’ve probably heard about the storm front that made its way through California this week. Despite the rough seas, our long-range AUV team got out on the bay between bouts of rain.

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We’re spotlighting various teams at MBARI to showcase the different ways we study the largest environment on Earth. We hope this series inspires a new generation of ocean explorers.

Dive in: mbari.co/MeetMBARI

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Successfully collecting deep-sea animals for further study in the lab is exceedingly challenging. But new technology allows scientists to collect 3D images, entire genomes, and detailed biological data from the ocean’s most delicate drifters. 📸 Schmidt Ocean Institute

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