It can be hard to see what type of creature the giant ostracod (Gigantocypris) is at first glance. It looks like a large, organge ball, and is found all around the world – in deep, dark and cold oceans. The Giant Ostracod, swimming in the ocean mesopelagic zone. Their bodies can consist of up to […]
As in movies, science has a behind the “paper” history that illustrates the continuous challenge of hypothesis implicit to the scientific process. Here, we will tell you about one of those histories related to our friends, the mesopelagic fishes. Sometime during 2015 a group of researchers, presently involved in the SUMMER project, analyzed the vertical […]
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 […]
Metro Bilbao is hosting a photographic exhibition about the most fascinating creatures that inhabit the mesopelagic zone, between 200 and 1,000 metres deep. The exhibition has been organized by AZTI scientific and technology centre within the framework of the European SUMMER project, financed by the European Union, to increase knowledge about the species of this […]
BARNA, S.A. is a company located in Mundaka, north of Spain on the shores of the Cantabrian Sea. BARNA has since 1961 been dedicated to the management and transformation of by-products from the fishing industry. Our mission each year is to produce about 11 000 tons of fishmeal and fish oil for animal feed from […]
Ctenophores are bioluminescent, gelatinous organisms – also known as comb […] Sea angels… Small, yet graceful. It has no shell, […] Metro Bilbao is hosting a photographic exhibition about the most […] Siphonophores may be some of the most unique and fascinating […] It can be hard to see what type of […] The Humbolt […]
Ctenophores are bioluminescent, gelatinous organisms – also known as comb […] Sea angels… Small, yet graceful. It has no shell, […] Metro Bilbao is hosting a photographic exhibition about the most […] Siphonophores may be some of the most unique and fascinating […] It can be hard to see what type of […] The Humbolt […]
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 […]
The mesopelagic zone by definition is out of reach for most types of direct observation. Yet, Norwegian fjords offer unique opportunities facilitating mesopelagic studies. They are deep, house mesopelagic fauna, and are easily accessible. At the University of Oslo we take advantage of these near-shore “deep-sea” habitats using echosounders cabled to land stations, in this […]
Tunas are some of the most commercially important, and valuable fish worldwide. They belong to the mackerel family, and there are currently 8 different recognized tuna species. Tunas are also one of the most eaten fish in the world, being sold both largely available as canned tuna, but are also sold in exclusive markets in […]
Oceanic squids in the order Oegopsida are ecologically and economically important species in the open ocean. They are the most diverse group of cephalopods (24 families, morphologically different). They play important roles in the mesopelagic ecosystem as predators to small mesopelagic organisms, and as prey to sharks and whales. The greater hooked squid (Onykia ingens) […]
For all those interesting in the deep scattering layer and historical research, this film from the 1970s gives an interesting perspective. The film is available on YouTube from the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportations, and aviation stock photo collections in the USA.
Siphonophores may be some of the most unique and fascinating creatures residing in the mesopelagic zone. Instead of being a single organism, they are actually colonial, super-organisms consisting of several individuals that function together as one. These individual units are known as zooids, and are specialized to achieve their tasks. Some zooids are developed for […]
Just like in any food web, organisms in the oceans find different ways of making their living; they take up different roles in the food web. Tiny algae, so called phytoplankton, make up a large proportion of the primary producers. While they all grow by taking up CO2, inorganic nutrients and sunlight as their energy […]
