Marine Biologist Continues DEEPEND Gulf Research (University of South Florida - Saint Petersburg)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Aug 2016
(Source. University of South Florida - Saint Petersburg). From right to left. Heather Judkins, Travis Richards, Jon Moore, Alisha Stahl, and Katie Bowen study and photograph specimens during a 2015 DEEPEND cruise. A USF St. Petersburg professor shipped out Aug. 5 on a cruise with researchers from institutions around the U.S. as part of the Deep-Pelagic Nekton Dynamics (DEEPEND) Consortium ... 20 ... Heather Judkins during a 2015 DEEPEND cruise....

We’ve only explored 0.0001 percent of the ocean, but that’s about to change.

Edit Grist 18 Aug 2016
Nekton, a U.K.-based NGO, launched its first mission in mid-July to finally give us an understanding of the deep sea, using tiny research pods that are reminiscent of goldfish bowls — bowls with robot arms that grab samples from corals and sponges ... Nekton Mission ... Once the Nekton mission is complete, ......

Nekton: an international scientific mission hoping to save our deep oceans

Edit The National 17 Aug 2016
It's part of the high-spirited safety briefing from Oliver Steeds, mission director of Nekton, a scientific expedition to survey the unexplored deep ocean and establish a baseline for its health ... For those of a nautical bent the word Nekton will strike a chord ... Steeds has put together a blue-chip consortium to make Mission Nekton happen....

Nekton: an international scientific mission plumbing the depths to help save our oceans

Edit The National 17 Aug 2016
It's part of the high-spirited safety briefing from Oliver Steeds, mission director of Nekton, a scientific expedition to survey the unexplored deep ocean and establish a baseline for its health ... For those of a nautical bent the word Nekton will strike a chord ... Steeds has put together a blue-chip consortium to make Mission Nekton happen....

The deep ocean: plunging to new depths to discover the largest migration on Earth

Edit The Guardian 17 Aug 2016
The consortium of scientists and divers, led by Nekton, is backed by XL Catlin, which has already funded a global analysis of shallow water coral reefs ... The Nekton researchers are discovering a whole web of life that could be unknown to science as they attempt to broaden this knowledge ... Nekton’s next mission will be to explore the Mediterranean ... The Nekton mission is a far cry from this....

Plunging deep beneath the sea in a tiny sub to map the ocean

Edit New Scientist 17 Aug 2016
Aviva Rutkin took a ride off Bermuda in a bubble submersible to survey the depths for the newly launched Nekton Mission ... ....

Assessing the state of the world's oceans

Edit The National 17 Aug 2016
The health of the world's oceans is deteriorating, and a group of scientists and explorers have set out to gather scientific data and asses just how much damage has been done. Journalist Justin Marozzi recently had the opportunity to join the Nekton Mission in the Sargasso Sea, just east of Bermuda, to see the expedition's work first hand ... ....

This Nekton Mission Is Giving The Ocean A Health Check-Up

Edit Huffington Post 15 Aug 2016
Nekton is conducting the XL Catlin Deep Ocean Survey in Bermuda, the Sargasso Sea and an area off Nova Scotia, with the key aim being to establish a documented baseline of ocean health ... on the Nekton Mission, explains....

In With the Shrimp, Out with the Turtles: UNO Earns Grant to Improve Nets (The University of New Orleans)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Aug 2016
(Source. The University of New Orleans) ... Shrimpers using smaller nets in shallower waters inshore have no effective options that enable them to keep the shrimp in and the turtles out, said Martin O'Connell, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences and director of the Nekton Research Laboratory at UNO's Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences ... 'It's just basic physics,' O'Connell said ... shrimp trawls ... (noodl....

Nekton Mission Director Oliver Steeds Gave Up His Career As A Journalist To Help Save ...

Edit Forbes 07 Aug 2016
Five years ago, Oliver Steeds gave up his career as a successful investigative journalist to help save the oceans. To do that he must create interest in, and awareness of, the largely unexplored bodies of water that make up more than two-thirds of the surface of our planet. As a [...] ... ....

Nekton Chief Scientist Alex Rogers Speculates On New Bio Finds 1,000 Feet Deep Near Bermuda

Edit Forbes 06 Aug 2016
In the first and second parts and of this series, we reported on diving down to 1,000 feet below the surface of the Atlantic with the Nekton/XL Catlin Deep Ocean Survey to investigate life off of the Bermuda coast. Here, we discuss with Nekton chief scientist Alex Rogers what we found. [...] ... ....

Guinness World Record? Intrepid Interview Conducted 1,000 Feet Deep In Nekton Sub Near Bermuda

Edit Forbes 05 Aug 2016
Last month for the first time, I dove in a submersible deep into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Bermuda with the Nekton XL Catlin Deep Ocean Survey. As part of the otherworldly experience, I interviewed pilot Patrick Lahey when we were 1,000 feet under the surface. Patrick Lahey, co-founder [...] ... ....
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