Sunday, September 30, 2012

Ocean floor images

  • Seafloor Explorer: Underwater Images Project Opens To The Public (PHOTOS)

    The fourth-generation HabCam (dubbed "Seahorse") revealed never-before-seen ocean topography, prey-predator relationships and fishing tracks on the ocean floor. Although initially designed to better count scallops on the seafloor, HabCam allows you to ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • How Do Crabs See Food on the Ocean Floor? UV Vision

    How Do Crabs See Food on the Ocean Floor? UV Vision. Gastroptychus spinifer is capable of seeing UV light, researchers discovered.

    blogs.smithsonianmag.com

  • 3-D 'Seahorse' cam tracks scallops, and sees a lot more

    This summer, the instrument was towed over miles of seafloor, from Virginia to Cape Cod, taking millions of images and capturing details about marine life and the ocean floor that stretched beyond just the number of scallops. The Seahorse revealed ...

    seattletimes.com

  • On ocean floor, a shrimp that vomits light

    The glowers at the ocean bottom included the world's first identified glow-in-the-dark anemone along with a shrimp species that vomits light as a defense mechanism, glowing coral, starfish and sea cucumbers. [See Photos of the Glowing Deep-Sea ...

    www.csmonitor.com

  • Help Oceanographers Comb the Ocean Floor From the Comfort of Your Screen

    Hidden Treasures of the Deep Public contributors will be able to identify fish, scallops and other organisms in each image.

    www.popsci.com

  • 7000 feet beneath ocean floor, deep-sea drill sets record

    7,000 feet beneath ocean floor, deep-sea drill sets record. Published September 07 ... Extreme Life on Earth: 8 Bizarre Creatures · Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench · Images: Cameron's Dive to Earth's Deepest Spot. Copyright 2012 ...

    www.foxnews.com

  • 'HabCam' opens window to life on seafloor in natural habitat

    Each day, HabCam can capture 100 nautical miles (185 kilometers) of ocean floor. Amber York, a biology research associate at Woods Hole who works on HabCam, told OurAmazingPlanet that pictures have already sparked her interest: She has spotted an ...

    www.msnbc.msn.com

  • Google Maps takes street view under the sea

    On Wednesday, the internet giant unveiled the newest addition to its Google Maps service: 360-degree underwater images of some of the ocean's coral reefs.

    www.cbc.ca

  • Google adds coral reef panoramas to its maps

    Panoramic images of several coral reefs have been added to Google's Street View service in its maps, allowing users to navigate their way around the sites.

    www.dayandnightnews.com

  • New Jersey Coral Reef Hotspots Discovered In Deepwater Canyons

    Scientists using cutting-edge technology to explore waters off Indonesia were wowed by colorful and diverse images of marine life on the ocean floor _ including plate-sized sea spiders and flower-like sponges that appear to be carnivorous. They ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Tonga Trench Expedition Explores Second-Deepest Point In Ocean

    Scientists using cutting-edge technology to explore waters off Indonesia were wowed by colorful and diverse images of marine life on the ocean floor _ including plate-sized sea spiders and flower-like sponges that appear to be carnivorous. They ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Japan Crop Circles: Underwater "Mystery Circle" Solved [SEE PHOTOS AND ...

    Earlier this year deep sea photographer, Yoji Ookata discovered a stunning 6 foot in diameter, circular pattern of rippled sand on the ocean floor, some 80 feet below sea level. Ootaka was diving in the region of Amami Oshima. For Ookata who is a ...

    www.travelerstoday.com

  • Landscape Changes from Trawling Seafloor Massive

    Click to enlarge this image. Wang Jianwei/Corbis. Bottom trawling is dramatically altering the ocean floor and harming habitats, similar to the way that farming has permanently changed the landscape, a study said on Wednesday.

    news.discovery.com

  • 'HabCam' Opens Unique Window on Seafloor Life

    Each day, HabCam can capture 100 nautical miles (185 kilometers) of ocean floor. Amber York, a biology research associate at Woods Hole who works on HabCam, told OurAmazingPlanet that pictures have already sparked her interest: She has spotted an ...

    www.ouramazingplanet.com

  • Great Barrier Reef Threatened By Warming Waters, Study Shows

    Scientists using cutting-edge technology to explore waters off Indonesia were wowed by colorful and diverse images of marine life on the ocean floor _ including plate-sized sea spiders and flower-like sponges that appear to be carnivorous. They ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Art & Soul: Underwater photographer explores the beauty of the deep at Jepson ...

    He captures a school of silver fish gingerly framing a tentacled jellyfish in "Precarious Existence" and documents thick veils of orange coral rising from the rocky bottom of the ocean floor in "Soft Coral Curtain." "The biggest challenges of ... "My ...

    savannahnow.com

  • Bizarre 2012 earthquake signals birth of world's newest tectonic plate

    Since these earthquakes don't shove the ocean floor upward - a required move for tsunami generation - no deadly wave appeared.

    www.csmonitor.com

  • Arctic Oil Near Soviet Toxic Waste in Exxon-Rosneft Plan

    Photograph: Planet News Archive/SSPL/Getty Images. The Kara Sea, a body of Arctic waters so remote that the Soviet Union used it as an atomic- waste dump for more than 25 years, has become the focus of an environmental battle that oil companies are ...

    www.bloomberg.com

  • A secret of Walt Disney World's allure hides in plain sight (Commentary)

    edi Disney Main Street USA View full sizeMain Street USA at Walt Disney World, before the crowds arrive. The brightly painted and meticulously maintained buildings are cleverly designed to look larger than they really are.

    www.silive.com

  • Caribbean Coral Reefs In Sharp Decline, Says IUCN

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- An international conservation organization is painting a grim picture of the Caribbean's iconic coral reefs.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

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