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View images of new discoveries, species, and findings of the Census at its midpoint in 2005. |
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View video of how Census scientists are using acoustic receivers and tagging technologies to track the paths of salmon and sharks off the Pacific coast. |
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View images from an HMAP study that used historical restaurant seafood prices to plot marine harvests through history. |
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View images from the 30-day Ocean Explorer expedition mounted by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aboard the US Coast Guard Ship Healy. |
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The Census of Marine Life produced a Public Service Announcement to run on CNN International (It will not be seen in the USA). The are 3 versions of the PSA: 60 seconds, 30 seconds and 15 seconds. The PSAs may be viewed in QuickTime 6 (H263 codec) or Windows Media Player (version 9).
Download QuickTime version: 60s - 30s - 15s
Download Media Player version: 60s - 30s - 15s |
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Illustration from 1880s shows fishermen lining the rails (left), each deploying two baited hooks (right) in essentially the same manner as European fishermen off Newfoundland in the 1500s. Although some Beverly captains employed dories for handlining and a few experimented with tub trawls as catch declined, handlining from the vessel remained prevalent in this fishery until the early 1860s. Credit: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service. Download zipped .BMP file (3.8 MB) |
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CeDAMar: An unknown octopod possibly of the genus Pareledone. Photo: L. Alcock.
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from Annual Highlight Report for CoML 2004. |
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One of 88,000 specimens collected during a research during a two-month MAR-ECO research cruise in the summer of 2004. Pictured is a lobate ctenophore (Bathycyroe fosteri) which is very common and abundant near the mid-Atlantic ridge. (5 cm tall). Photo: ©Marsh Youngbluth. Full image
Visit MAR-ECO 2004 expedition gallery. |
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An undescribed and perhaps new species of Narco, a sub-group of the jellyfish, collected in 2002 south of Banks Island, Canadian Arctic. Narcomedusae photo by Kevin Raskoff. Full image |
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A finned octopod of the genus Opisthoteuthis resembling "Dumbo," the fictional elephant, was captured on video at 3000 meters during a June 2003 MAR-ECO research cruise. Two Russian MIR submersibles allowed researchers to get a close-up look at creatures that live near the Charlie Gibbs Fracture zone in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which was the first time humans ever visited this part of the planet. Video courtesy of Michael Vecchione, NOAA Fisheries Systematics Lab at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. (mpg file, 1.9MB) |
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Census researchers were surprised to find extremely heavy amounts of falling material called "marine snow" at depths to 2000-4500 m during submersible dives to the Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in June 2003. Video courtesy of Michael Vecchione, NOAA Fisheries Systematics Lab at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. (mpg file, 3.2MB) |
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The bottom at the Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which had never previously been explored, was even rougher than expected. Direct observation from a MIR submersible by Mar-Eco researchers was the only means of determining the occurrence of mobile epibenthic and demersal megafauna in the area. Video courtesy of Michael Vecchione, NOAA Fisheries Systematics Lab at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. (mpg file, 1.4MB) |
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Voice of America Broadcast by Rosanne Skirble from 13 Nov 2003, 18:40 UTC about the Census of Marine Life. The audio is a zipped RealOne file provided by permission of Voice of America. You will need to have RealOne Media Player installed to listen to this file. The broadcast is in English. The text of the broadcast is at http://www.voanews.com. (Download audio file, zipped "rm" format, 553k). |
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A new species of scorpionfish, Scorpaenopsis Vittapinna, found in the Indo-Pacific area, one of a rapidly growing list of more than 15,300 marine fish species now logged in the Census of Marine Life database. Photo by Bill Eschmeyer and John E. Randall (Download full-sized original image, zipped "jpg" format, 380k) |
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A new species of grenadiers (aka rattails), Caelorinchus mediterraneus, found in the western Mediterranean, one of a rapidly growing list of more than 15,300 marine fish species now logged in the Census of Marine Life database. Photo by Tomio Iwamoto (Download full-sized original image
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A new species of grenadiers (aka rattails), Ventrifossa paxtoni, found in the Tasman Sea, one of a rapidly growing list of more than 15,300 marine fish species now logged in the Census of Marine Life database. Photo by Ken Graham (Download full-sized original image, zipped "jpg" format, 141k) |
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Hidden octopus (QuickTime movie, 2MB) A camera approaches a coral with no sign of an animal in waters off Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean. As the camera gets closer, an Octopus vulgaris that was camouflaged changes color to white and becomes visible. Video courtesy of Roger T. Hanlon and CephBase, which contains 144 video clips and more than 1,600 high quality images online. |
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Deep Sea Vents (QuickTime movie, 6.3MB) Video illustrating a "black smoker" vent at he mid-ocean ridge and the organisms that live around vents. Cindy Lee Van Dover, The College of William & Mary; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Alvin and Jason footage) |
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A MIR submersible being lowered into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean holding two Mar-Eco researchers, the first humans to visit the Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone at 3000 m in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Photo courtesy of Michael Vecchione, NOAA Fisheries Systematics Lab at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Larger version is 800x600 pixels, 91K. |
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Census researchers use a robotic arm and video camera to record life at 3000m at the Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone, where the bottom was so rocky that direct observation from the submersible was the only means available to explore this previously unexplored region. Photo courtesy of Michael Vecchione, NOAA Fisheries Systematics Lab at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Larger version is 782x800 pixels, 87K. |
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The tube worm, Lamellibrachia luymesi, and its bacterial symbionts live on sulfide produced by anaerobic oxidation of oil and gas. Many oil and gas seeps in the Gulf of Mexico feature dozens of dense, bush-like aggregations. This tube worm "bush" shows the red gill-plumes of several worms. © Ian MacDonald, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. Download a high-resolution version of this image (zip file, 7.6 MB). |
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Weir for catching salmon at Kitsa River, Russia ca. 1850. From Paintings for the Studies of Fisheries and Marine Hunting in the White Sea and the Arctic Ocean, St. Peterburg, 1863. Download a high-resolution version of this image (zip file, 703k). |
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These three Sunflower sea stars, Pycnopodia helianthoides, were photographed during a NaGISA sampling dive in Prince William Sound in May 2003. The Latin, which translates to dense-footed sunflower, refers to the thousands of tube-like feet on the underside of the arms that stretch out making these creatures resemble beautiful aquamarine sunflowers. Photo courtesy of Casey Debenham. Download a high-resolution version of this image (zip file, 6.1 MB). |
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Census Logo (2-color, blue variation) for use with published work. Download a high-resolution version of this image (zip file, 285k). |
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Census Logo (back-and-white) for use with published work. Download a high-resolution version of this image (zip file, 37k). |
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Census Logo (4-color) for use with published work. Download a high-resolution version of this image (zip file, 120k). |
