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 […] One of the main goals of the team from the […] Mesopelagic fish are small, abundant fish living in the […] Research surveys at sea can be both time consuming […] To enhance our knowledge […]
Mesopelagic organisms play an important role in the marine ecosystems as they transfer energy and organic matter between the surface layers and the deep sea via the regular mechanism called diel vertical migration (DVM). One of the key components of the community of this zone is mesopelagic fishes due to their worldwide and abundant distribution […]
Research surveys at sea can be both time consuming and expensive. Opportunistic sampling of the mesopelagic community during routine research surveys is therefore a credible option to enhance our knowledge of the mesopelagic ecosystem at a minimum cost. In addition, these routine surveys have, most of the time, been carried out for several years. The […]
Omega-3 (Docosahexaenoic acid -DHA- and eicosapentaenoic acid -EPA-) provides benefits on health for humans and animals in general. EPA and DHA are essential for proper fetal development and healthy aging. Global recommendation for these two acids intake is around 500 mg day for adults and 250 mg day for infants. Considering the 2020-year world inhabitants […]
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 […]
