This month, May 2020, the St Andrews team was supposed to be in the final stages of preparation for going to sea on the SUMMER voyage on the Spanish Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa (http://www.utm.csic.es/en/instalaciones/sdg) from Vigo to Barcelona led by colleagues from CSIC (Spanish National Research Council). We were to deploy our new ‘Seaquest […]
Marine Hatchetfishes (Sternoptychinae) are a subfamily of small pelagic […] Researchers from AZTI (Spain), National Oceanography Centre (UK), University […] A small exhibition of the extraordinary and incredible creatures hidden […] The oceanic mesopelagic or twilight zone (from 200 to […] Mesopelagic fishes form deep acoustic scattering layers during daytime and, […] With a changing […]
© scaliger / Adobe Stock Some of the the SUMMER participants – Adrian Martin, Xabier Irigoien and Sari Giering, are authors on a newly hot-off-the-press article in Nature on the Twilight Zone (see also the article mentioned earlier in this blog – also on the Twilight Zone), where one of the key messages in inter-project […]
© scaliger / Adobe Stock Some of […] Photo credit: Adobe stock (standard license) In […] SUMMER has the following accounts on social media platforms […] Photo by Leif Grimsmo, SINTEF Ocean Though […]
Elephant seals, also known as Sea elephants may not look like they frequent the deep ocean, but did you know they can dive deeper than 1000 meters in their search for food? An elephant seal basking on the beach at Año Nuevo, California. (Photo from Adobe Stock, by Photoeverywhere) The elephant seal is named after […]
The mesopelagic zone by definition is out of reach […] The website by our “sister project” MEESO is up! […] The SUMMERH2020 annual meeting for the interdisciplinary project on […] Javier Arístegui, together with Montero, M. F., Hernández-Hernández, N., […] FAO have produced the mesopelagic fish guide and has […] When acknowledging SUMMER in your […]
Mesopelagics – New gold rush or castle in the sky? Gallery Communication, Dissemination, fun fact, jetzon, Laksesild, mesopelagic species, Mesopelagic zone, open science, Publication, Sin categoría, social media In this recently published article, Fjeld et al. performed […] The oceanic mesopelagic or twilight zone (from 200 to […] Mesopelagic fish have a wide distribution in […]
Mesopelagics – New gold rush or castle in the sky? Gallery Communication, Dissemination, fun fact, jetzon, Laksesild, mesopelagic species, Mesopelagic zone, open science, Publication, Sin categoría, social media In this recently published article, Fjeld et al. performed […] Lancetfishes (family Alepisauridae) are one of the largest fishes […] Marine Hatchetfishes (Sternoptychinae) are a subfamily of […]
Mesopelagics – New gold rush or castle in the sky? Gallery Communication, Dissemination, fun fact, jetzon, Laksesild, mesopelagic species, Mesopelagic zone, open science, Publication, Sin categoría, social media In this recently published article, Fjeld et al. performed […] SUMMER school course, May 22.-26. in Iceland Gallery The SUMMER project is arranging a summer school course […]
A small exhibition of the extraordinary and incredible creatures hidden […] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsAsQAcpr4g NOC scientists are recently back from a cruise […] SINTEF Ocean have, and have had projects on mesopelagic […]
Mesopelagics – New gold rush or castle in the sky? Gallery Communication, Dissemination, fun fact, jetzon, Laksesild, mesopelagic species, Mesopelagic zone, open science, Publication, Sin categoría, social media In this recently published article, Fjeld et al. performed […] Researchers at AZTI explored how they could use environmental […]
Mesopelagic organisms are important prey for many commercially valuable species (e.g. tuna, swordfish, squid) and charismatic megafauna (e.g. marine mammals, seabirds, pelagic sharks). Many of these top predators dive into the mesopelagic zone to feed on deep-sea fishes and squids, while others exploit the diel vertical migration of mesopelagic organisms to surface waters at night. […]
A small exhibition of the extraordinary and incredible creatures hidden in the mesopelagic zone! Stay tuned for more information regarding each creature featured in this video. FacebookTwitterRedditLinkedInWhatsAppTumblrPinterestVkEmail
Mesopelagic fish have a wide distribution in the ocean twilight […] Elements are vital building blocks for all life on […] Research surveys at sea can be both time consuming […] Due to the COVID-19 situation the annual meeting for SUMMER […] To enhance our knowledge on the mesopelagic community and […]
