Top achievements of the first 20 years
1987-2007
Science and engineering teamwork, as envisioned by founder David Packard
1988
Ventana's more than 3,000 research dives
1989
The Monterey Bay Time Series
1988-2005
Annotating deep-sea dive video for research use
1989
Bringing deep sea dives to the public via the "Live Link" program
1987-2007
Discoveries of deep-sea biomass and biodiversity using an ROV
1989-1996
Developing an advanced remotely operated vehicle for ocean science
1998
Experiments on the effects of carbon dioxide sequestration in the deep sea
2000-2007
The Monterey Ocean Observing System
2000
The In Situ Ultraviolet Spectrophotometer
1999-2007
Documentation of the diversity and importance of marine microbes
2000
Discovery of proteorhodopsin
2001-2007
The Environmental Sample Processor
2002-2007
Monterey Accelerated Research System
2003
The Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network
2003
The Deep Ocean Raman In Situ Spectrometer
2004
Discovery of the bone-eating worms in the genus Osedax
2004
The Land/Ocean Biogeochemical Observatory
2004
The D. Allan B. mapping autonomous underwater vehicle
2005
Discovery that the discarded feeding nets of giant larvaceans are an important source of organic carbon for the deep seafloor