The mission was so remote that often the closest humans to the vessel were on the International Space Station. View on ...

A working group of scientists united by an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to studying coral reefs across gradients of anthropogenic stress.

There, she works on the Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities - Coral Propagation Technique Development project - which is the long, scientific name for restoring ocean habitats below 164 feet ...

More than half of the world's deep-sea coral reefs have been destroyed, warned scientists at the First International Symposium on Deep Sea Corals in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Amid a growing debate ...

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Benthic Invertebrate Collection (SIO-BIC ... The Collection includes extensive holdings from deep-sea environments, chemosynthetic ecosystems (hydrothermal ...

Aboard te Falkor (too) research vessel, a 35-day trek to the South Sandwich Islands led to the discovery of new marine species.

Also at risk are seafloor benthic communities. The sea floor in the vicinity of natural oil and gas seeps is home to diverse chemosynthetic ecosystems and colonies of cold-water corals.

Caption A diversity of bamboo corals and golden corals in the central Pacific Ocean, deep-sea octocorals that are known to be bioluminescent. With thousands of living representatives and ...

stony coral and octocoral species in the five areas. “The result showed that the Victoria Harbour has a rich biodiversity, and underscored the potential for the recovery of benthic habitats and ...