The ocean plays a major role in regulating the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide can be dissolved in seawater and carried to depth by ocean currents (the solubility carbon pump) but it can also be carried there having entered the marine food web (the biological carbon pump). The total growth of […]
Researchers from AZTI (Spain), National Oceanography Centre (UK), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) and St Andrews University (UK) have joined the 185th campaign of the METEOR research vessel. During one month they have travelled along the coast of Spain (Bay of Biscay, Asturias and Galicia), Portugal, part of the coast of Morocco […]
With a changing climate, it is important to understand the links between ocean productivity and fish food web variations – in order to predict future changes in fisheries production. Benthic (seafloor) and planktonic (surface) energy pathways sustain the food webs of fish. In a recent paper by P. Daniel van Denderen et al. they examine […]
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 […]
SUMMER school course, May 22.-26. in Iceland Gallery The SUMMER project is arranging a summer school course […] Lancetfishes (family Alepisauridae) are one of the largest fishes […] Elephant seals, also known as Sea elephants may not […]
The SUMMER EU H2020 project started in 2019 with the objective to establish a protocol to accurately estimate mesopelagic fish biomass, quantify the ecosystem services provided by the mesopelagic community (food for aquaculture, for humans, for other wild fish, climate regulation and potential for bioactive compounds) and develop a decision support tool to quantitatively balance […]
The SUMMERH2020 annual meeting for the interdisciplinary project on mesopelagic sustainable fishing is underway – this time on Microsoft Teams, coordinated by AZTI, Raul Prellezo and Xabier Irigoien. Due to covid-19 restrictions we could not meet as planned in Bergen, so this year we had to opt for an online solution. The agenda consists among […]
One of the main goals of the team from the […] Mesopelagic fish are small, abundant fish living in the […] BARNA, S.A. is a company located in Mundaka, north […] Research surveys at sea can be both time consuming […] Mesopelagic organisms play an important role in the marine ecosystems […] To enhance our […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsAsQAcpr4g NOC scientists are recently back from a cruise […] One of the main goals of the team from the […] “Open data” means that scientists make the data that they […] Mesopelagic fish are small, abundant fish living in the […] BARNA, S.A. is a company located in Mundaka, north […] Research surveys at sea […]
JETZON is intended to act as an international coordinator and focal point for Twilight Zone studies The ocean’s Twilight Zone, the dimly lit region extending from a few hundred meters depth to 1000m, is still poorly understood from almost any perspective, whether physics, biochemistry or ecology. However, it contains possibly the world’s largest and least […]
SINTEF Ocean have, and have had projects on mesopelagic […] The mesopelagic ecosystem will equip at depths of between […] What is the mesopelagic zone you may wonder? In […] JETZON (Joint Exploration of the Twilight Zone Ocean Network) […] SUMMER has the following accounts on social media platforms […] SUMMER’s ambition is to obtain […]
Mesopelagic organisms are important prey for many commercially valuable […] Some of the SUMMER participants – Eduardo Grimaldo and […] This month, May 2020, the St Andrews team was […] © scaliger / Adobe Stock Some of […] Photo credit: Adobe stock (standard license) In […] SINTEF Ocean have, and have had projects on mesopelagic […]
Ifremer, the French research institute for the exploitation of […] © scaliger / Adobe Stock Some of […] SINTEF Ocean have, and have had projects on mesopelagic […] The mesopelagic ecosystem will equip at depths of between […] What is the mesopelagic zone you may wonder? In […] JETZON (Joint Exploration of the Twilight Zone […]
During the SUMMER school at the University of Iceland, students got hands-on experience working with mesopelagic fish in the lab. First, length measurements of the fish were performed. Students then extracted otoliths (ear stones), looked for internal parasites, and studied the fishes gut content. Tissue samples were also retrieved, for use in DNA analysis. Two […]
