MBARI’s 2021 Annual Report provides a visually rich overview of some of our latest research and technology developments.

Using MBARI’s archive of acoustic data, researchers are gaining new insight into the lives of endangered blue whales.

A new underwater camera records deep-sea animals and habitats with remarkable clarity and detail.

A collection of papers in a special edition of Oceanography highlights the groundwork of the MBON program for monitoring ocean health.

New research by MBARI and collaborators at the Smithsonian reveals how the gossamer worm achieves its effective and elegant swimming.

The Marine Technology Society has named MBARI President Chris Scholin the 2021 recipient of the Lockheed Martin Award for Ocean Science and Engineering.

MBARI researchers have used the power of genetics to reveal the stunning diversity of delicate, gelatinous comb jellies.

New research demonstrates that eDNA can be a valuable tool for monitoring California’s kelp forests.

Robotics have helped illuminate the motivation for deep-sea animals’ daily journey out of the ocean’s twilight zone.

On Wednesday, June 30, MBARI will be exploring Sur Ridge and we’d like you to join us!

The COVID-19 pandemic enabled a rare opportunity to measure the relationship between shipping traffic and the marine soundscape.

MBARI’s 2020 Annual Report provides a multimedia view of the institute’s latest research and technology.

The most extensive study yet of how seagrasses can buffer ocean acidification was published today.

Researchers use MBARI's robotic fleet to investigate an abundance of scars left by submarine landslides along the edge of the continental slope of the Beaufort Sea.

MBARI teamed up with visual effects artists to transform deep-sea mapping data and reveal the majesty of an underwater oasis.

Researchers recently enabled a trio of self-driving robots to locate, follow, and sample a layer of microbes as they drifted in an open-ocean eddy.

At least nine major groups of deep-sea animals, including jellies, corals, brittle stars, squids, and fish, use the same light-emitting chemical, coelenterazine, to power their displays.

MBARI scientists confirm the first evidence of bioluminescence in a sponge, showing that the sponges contain the chemicals necessary to make light within their bodies.

Researchers recently discovered the largest aggregation of fishes ever recorded at abyssal depths (below 3,000 meters or 9,800 feet) in the ocean.

Underwater gliders carrying pH sensors can monitor ocean acidification over large areas and long periods of time.