Seafloor Explorer: Underwater Images Project Opens To The Public (PHOTOS)
A new interactive website called the "Seafloor Explorer" allows viewers to browse photos taken by HabCam, an underwater mapping vehicle built by engineers and marine biologists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and contribute ...www.huffingtonpost.com
'HabCam' opens window to life on seafloor in natural habitat
The system snaps six images per second - that's a half-million images a day; then, a process corrects the color and an algorithm stitches the pictures together to create a giant panorama of the seafloor. Each day, HabCam can capture 100 nautical miles ...www.msnbc.msn.com
'HabCam' Opens Unique Window on Seafloor Life
The system snaps six images per second - that's a half-million images per day; then, a process corrects the color and an algorithm stitches the pictures together to create a giant panorama of the seafloor. Each day, HabCam can capture 100 nautical ...www.ouramazingplanet.com
Bottom Trawling Smoothes Seafloor And Potentially Destroys Habitat, Study Finds
Since deep-sea trawling is practiced around the world it is possible that this fishing practice is altering the seafloor along continental slopes at a large scale, they write.www.huffingtonpost.com
'Seafloor Explorer' website will provide everyone opportunity to identify ...
The public is invited to help identify objects they see in images of the seafloor through a new interactive website called "Seafloor Explorer." The result of a unique collaboration between oceanographers studying seafloor habitats, Web programmers and ...phys.org
Crab species on ocean floor has ultraviolet vision, say researchers
The reason for the color vision, however, may be explained by the concurrent discovery of bioluminescent deep-sea plankton in this environment, which glow blue when they bump against objects along the seafloor. It's possible that the crabs see this ...www.csmonitor.com
Expedition Uncovers Seafloor Mountain, Dazzling Sea Life
A recent expedition to an isolated archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean came back with footage of thriving sea life swarming the slopes of a newfound seafloor mountain. Videos captured by .... The creatures in the photo are not exactly "dazzling".news.yahoo.com
On ocean floor, a shrimp that vomits light
From glowing coral to shrimp that vomit light-making chemicals, seafloor creatures can create quite the flashy visual show, according to researchers who traveled into the inky depths of the Caribbean Sea to investigate the oddballs.www.csmonitor.com
Help Oceanographers Comb the Ocean Floor From the Comfort of Your Screen
A new interactive website called Seafloor Explorer needs the public's help to identify objects and seascapes in a few million underwater photos. The project is starting with 100,000 images, but there are more than 40 million in all. The photos come ...www.popsci.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
Japanese vessel sets ocean drilling record: 7000 feet under the sea
A Japanese drilling vessel has set a record by drilling more than 6,926 feet (2,111 meters) beneath the seafloor, deeper than ever before, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, the organization behind the expedition, announced on ...www.mnn.com
Protect the Seafloor During Dives: Don't Mess it Up
In recent years, sanctuary management has documented an increase in activities that impact the seafloor, including the temporary placement of items for photo opportunities or marketing events. Since 1997, the seafloor has been protected by sanctuary ...www.floridasportsman.com
New Jersey Coral Reef Hotspots Discovered In Deepwater Canyons
This April 9, 2012 photo provided by NOAA shows french grunts swimming around sponges and coral off the northeast coast of Puerto Rico, taken as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) sea-floor habitat research project ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Ancient forest lies 10 miles off the Alabama coast (video, gallery)
Covered in dense carpets of sea anemones, crawling with spidery arrow crabs and toadfish, the sprawling stumps of massive cypress trees spread across the seafloor. Unmistakable to eyes that have seen the cypress growing today in the swamps of the Gulf ...blog.al.com
McDonald's: We Need To Define What 'Sustainable' Beef Means
<em>Photo by Flickr user <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maritimeaquarium/5121214242/sizes/l/in/photostream/" target="_hplink">Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk</a>.www.huffingtonpost.com
Stingray Feeding: Woman Feeds Wild Fish With Bare Hands (VIDEO)
This April 9, 2012 photo provided by NOAA shows french grunts swimming around sponges and coral off the northeast coast of Puerto Rico, taken as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) sea-floor habitat research project ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Great Barrier Reef Threatened By Warming Waters, Study Shows
This April 9, 2012 photo provided by NOAA shows french grunts swimming around sponges and coral off the northeast coast of Puerto Rico, taken as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) sea-floor habitat research project ...www.huffingtonpost.com
New 3-D sonar images to give best view yet of US Navy ship sunk in Civil War ...
On Monday aboard the research vessel, Manta, researcher Christopher Horrell gleefully pored over computer images of the Hatteras' stern and paddlewheels that had just been transmitted from the seafloor. "This is what I got into archaeology for. It's ...www.therepublic.com
Officials mull seismic tests near Calif nuke plant
Hundreds of sensors would be placed strategically on the seafloor, picking up the reverberations and allowing computers to create three-dimensional maps in technology similar to an ultrasound.www.huffingtonpost.com
New Photos Thaw From DreamWorks Animation's Caveman Comedy 'The Croods'
While the images presented here are clearly very early and don't represent what we will come to expect from "The Croods," we're still marginally impressed.blogs.indiewire.com
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