Kat Bolstad It is wonderful to be back at sea. I’ve had the honor of sailing with the Western Flyer crew several times before, but not since 2015 (life and small children have happened in the meantime), so it’s great to be back aboard. And this cruise has gotten off to a wonderfully squiddy start for me—I lead …

Updates from researchers on the R/V Western Flyer: Sunday, November 17, 2019 Astrid Leitner We started out at our deep dive location just outside Monterey Bay on Saturday. We dove all the way to the bottom to about 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) where we deployed Henk-Jan and Stella’s bait package and filled up the Midwater Respirometry …

We departed Moss Landing on Friday heading out to our first dive location on the south side of Monterey Canyon. The weather and sea conditions were pretty calm making for a nice beginning to our seven-day expedition. There are a lot of different objectives for this week but, luckily, the science team is flexible and …

New website brings together relevant ocean conservation data into one easy-to-use platform.

Ocean lovers can now listen to the sounds of Monterey Bay live on the web or through Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa.

MBARI researchers recently found that animals living on the deep seafloor are much less likely to produce light than those swimming or drifting in the “midwater.”

A new exhibit at the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Exploration Center features recordings from MBARI's deep-sea hydrophone.

MBARI Senior Research Technician Roman Marin III passed away unexpectedly last month.

A just-released scientific report connects a host of ocean changes with human activities that take place largely on land.

Climate change has serious, long-term, and far-reaching negative consequences for our ocean. We present facts and resources to learn about climate change and the ocean.

Researchers test methods to restore deep-sea corals via translocation at Sur Ridge.

A new study shows how the amount of humpback song in Monterey Bay varies over days, months, and even years.

A new paper summarizes the quirky sexual and reproductive behaviors of octopuses, squids, and their relatives.

In a recent study, researchers compiled data from 18 years of rare video observations on deep-water skates.

MBARI celebrates the 150th deployment of its first long-range autonomous underwater vehicle, Tethys.

Researchers from MBARI and NOAA are using underwater robots and a robotic laboratory to study potentially toxic algal blooms in Lake Erie.

Alison Sweeney I have been invited along on this expedition as a guest with Kakani’s group, from my biophysics lab at Yale University. Kakani’s group is interested in mechanical bioinspiration—how do very small animals move through water? The answers are often very counterintuitive. In my case, I am interested in optical bioinspiration, where life’s solutions …

  Hi, I’m Joost Daniels and I’m a research tech in the Bioinspiration Group. In true Bioinspiration fashion, my main job on this week-long cruise consists of two parts: bringing the lab to the ocean, and bringing the ocean to the lab. For the former, we’ve brought our DeepPIV instrument along, mounted on the remotely …

A new research paper by MBARI and Taiwanese researchers shows how mysterious hills and pits may have formed in the deep seafloor off Taiwan.

I joined MBARI in February of this year to work with Kakani Katija and the Bioinspiration Group to build EyeRIS, perhaps the first ever deep-sea plenoptic (3D) imaging system. This project, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, aims to develop a suite of 3D imaging systems for studying particle fields, small-scale fluid mechanics, …