CoML Highlights 2006 B-roll Video
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Each section below contains information about video from the CoML Highlights 2006 B-roll. Small preview movies.
ChEss - Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems
Video from Ifremer.
The video shows hydrothermal vents and their associated fauna in the North Pacific and North Atlantic, visited during three cruises in 1997, 1998 and 1999 by the French submersible Nautile. The "black smoker" from the East Pacific Rise (EPR), at 2630 m depth, expels water at up to 350°C. Chemicals in the fluid build the chimneys and provide energy for bacteria, living either free or in symbiosis with animals like the giant tube worm Riftia pachyptila, found only on the EPR. Another worm, also endemic to the EPR, the Pompeii worm (Alvinella pompejana), seen in shimmering hot waters, is though to be the most thermotolerant animal in the world. The swarms of shrimps from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR), at 2200 m depth, are typical of Atlantic and Indian vents. The species Rimicaris exoculata is endemic to the MAR.
Duration: 1:10
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TOPP - Tagging of Pacific Pelagics
ICOMM - International Census of Marine Microbes
Video copyright Cytographics
Three species as examples:
Eutreptiella, a biflagellate marine eugenloid
Dinoflagellate - Ceratium
Diatoms - first Chaetoceros, then centric diatoms and then pennate diatoms.
Duration: 2:14
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CMarZ - Census of Marine Zooplankton
3 parts, 5:10 total length
Part1:
MOC1 launch and recovery: L. Madin, Woods Hole, Oceanographic Inst. (WHOI)/CMarZ
The MOCNESS plankton sampler carries nine nets (330 micron mesh) and electronic sensors for temperature, depth, and salinity. The nets can be opened and closed by a command from the ship at any depth. First, this clip shows the net system being launched from the stern of the ship and lowered into the Sargasso Sea. Then the view shifts to the MOCNESS command center onboard the NOAA research vessel Ronald H. Brown where Dr. Peter Wiebe is 'flying' the nets. A close-up of the computer screen which is used to monitor the flight shows the time, depth (pressure), salinity and other pertinent information. Next, the MOCNESS is being brought back on board, lowered onto the deck, the nets washed down with seawater to collect any animals stuck there, the codend bucket removed from the net, a peek at the contents of the codend. Inside the wet lab, the catch is poured into a plastic box, a photo taken of the entire sample. Then gelatinous organisms, which are extremely fragile, are removed and immediately identified (before splitting the sample and preserving it - not shown on video). April 2006.
Part2:
Gene_sequencing_RHB_06-03: L. Madin, Woods Hole, Oceanographic Inst. (WHOI)/CMarZ
Paola Batta Lona, Univ. of Connecticut graduate student, inserts a plate with samples of the zooplankton that has just been collected and identified into the genetic sequencer. Results are shown on the computer screen. Different colors indicate different DNA bases.
Onboard the NOAA research vessel Ronald H. Brown, April 2006.
Part3:
RHB_06-03_zooplankton: L. Madin, Woods Hole, Oceanographic Inst. (WHOI)/CMarZ
A colonial gelatinous organism (siphonophore) swimming; The tentacles extending and contracting; A carnivorous comb jelly (ctenophore) in a dish that, when hen a pin is placed near it, attacks; A ctenophore floating in an aquarium, its combs shimmering.
Onboard the NOAA research vessel Ronald H. Brown, April 2006.
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CReefs - Census of Coral Reefs
NOAA Fisheries, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Towed Diver Video.
The video taken at Jarvis island.
Duration: 0:40
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POST - Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project
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