Bioluminescence and Vision on the Deep Seafloor 2015

Bioluminescence and Vision on the Deep Seafloor 2015

Image and Video Gallery

This page contains photos and videos associated with the Bioluminescence and Vision on the Deep Seafloor 2015 expedition. Click on any image or video to view a larger version and for additional information.

Medusa Timelapse video.

Medusa Timelapse video

Mission Log - Medusa Timelapse video.

ROV Timelapse video

ROV Timelapse video

Mission Log - ROV Timelapse video

July 19 Log

July 19 - Dive 8, clip 8

July 19 Log

July 19 - Dive 8, clip 7

July 19 Log

July 19 - Dive 8, clip 6

July 25 Log

July 25 Log - ROV entering brine pool

July 19 Log

July 19 - Dive 8, clip 4

July 19 Log

July 19 - Dive 8, clip 66

July 19 Log

July 19 - Dive 8, clip 1

July 22 Log

July 22 - Dive 14, clip 20

July 22 Log

July 22 - Dive 13, clip 1

July 22 Log

July 22 - Dive 13, clip 3

July 22 Log

July 22 - Dive 14, clip 41

July 24 Log

July 24 - Dive 17, clip 113

July 20 Log

July 20 - Dive 10, clip 1

July 18 Log

July 18 - Dive 7, clip 1

July 16 Log

July 16 Log - Bacteria clump

July 16 Log

July 16 Log - Crab picking food off of tubeworms

July 24 Log

July 24 Log - Beardfish Polymixia sp.

July 25 Log

July 25 Log - Rattail above brine pool

July 28 Log

July 28 Log - The silver Faraday cage is used to block out electrical noise.

July 28 Log

July 28 Log - Glyphocrangon on the seafloor.

July 28 Log

July 28 Log - Bathypaleomanella in bamboo coral.

July 28 Log

July 28 Log - Bathypaleomanella in Iridogorgia coral.

July 28 Log

July 28 Log - Sea cucumber resting on the seafloor.

July 28 Log

July 28 Log - Sea cucumber making a quick escape.

July 27 Log

July 27 Log - The ROV manipulator moving in to collect a seastar from the bottom.

July 27 Log

July 27 Log - The ROV once it hits the deck and the scientists descend upon it to collect all of the samples recovered from bottom.

July 27 Log

July 27 Log - Sönke practicing using the manipulator to collect a sample and deposit it into the bio box.

July 26 Log

July 26 Log - Decapod diversity on a single rock.

July 26 Log

July 26 Log - Heather and her new friend—Plesiopenaeus armatus.

July 26 Log

July 26 Log - Uroptychus nitidus.

July 26 Log

July 26 Log - Heather with ROV Heather with ROV Global Explorer..

July 26 Log

July 26 Log - Amphipods collected from a glass sponge.

July 25 Log

July 25 Log - Venus fly trap anemone.

July 25 Log

July 25 Log - Umbellula sea pen.

July 25 Log

July 25 Log - Octopus.

July 25 Log

July 25 Log - Swimming elasipod holothuroid (sea cucumber).

July 25 Log

July 25 Log - Goosefish.

July 25 Log

July 25 Log - Chaceon sp. crab.

July 24 Log

July 24 Log - Found it!

July 24 Log

July 24 Log - Medusa at 1,914 meters.

July 24 Log

July 24 Log - Handoff of the Medusa from the ROV to the ship.

July 24 Log

July 24 Log - Removing syntactic foam blocks from Medusa to weigh.

July 24 Log

July 24 Log - Still frame of a deep-sea shrimp Plesiopenaeus from last Medusa deployment.

July 24 Log

July 24 Log - Still frame of the giant isopod Bathynomous from last Medusa deployment.

July 24 Log

July 24 Log - Still frame of a rattail from the last Medusa deployment.

July 23 Log

July 23 Log - A deep-sea pandalid shrimp and a photo of the same animal ‘vomiting’ light from glands located near its mouth.

July 23 Log

July 23 Log - Jamie (right) and Tony (left) at the controls of the ROV Global Explorer.

July 23 Log

July 23 Log - This is not a tropical sunset, though we have seen many beautiful ones.

July 23 Log

July 23 Log - In situ photograph of a hormathiid anemone and image of light emitted from the same animal.

July 23 Log

July 23 Log - In situ photograph of a number of deep-sea coral and anemones and blue light emitted from a branch of the same bamboo coral.

July 23 Log

July 23 Log - In situ photograph of a sea pen called Umbellula and light emitted from the same animal.

July 23 Log

July 23 Log - In situ photograph of a coral called Iridogorgia and light emitted from a few branches of the same animal.

July 22 Log

July 22 Log - Last view of Medusa with legs removed and sacrificial weight hanging about a foot below the base.

July 22 Log

July 22 Log - The galvanized timed release link that should have corroded through in 28 hours to release the weight.

July 21 Log

July 21 Log - Dr. Charles Messing identifying collected specimens.

July 21 Log

July 21 Log - Example of some specimen bits preserved in RNA Later for genetic profiling.

July 21 Log

July 21 Log - Example of some specimens preserved in 70 percent ethanol.

July 21 Log

July 21 Log - Iridogorgia octocoral preserved in 10 percent formalin.

July 21 Log

July 21 Log - Dr. Messing heat sealing a formalin preserved specimen for transport.

July 21 Log

July 21 Log - Possible new sighting of Thaumatocrinus jungerseni.

uly 20 Log

July 20 Log - Retrieving the Medusa on the side of the ship.

July 20 Log

July 20 Log - A cutthroat eel, Synaphobranchid, from Medusa video capture.

July 20 Log

July 20 Log - Medusa being lowered into the ocean.

July 20 Log

July 20 Log - Medusa being lifted onto the ship's deck.

July 19 Log

July 19 Log - R/V Pelican in dock ready to depart on the Bioluminescence and Vision 2015 expedition.

July 19 Log

July 19 Log - Wetlab research facility aboard the R/V Pelican.

July 19 Log

July 19 Log - Common room used for watching video feeds from the ROV Global Explorer.

July 18 Log

July 18 Log - The fourth day of the expedition arrives and we are ready to explore deep beneath the surface of the Gulf.

July 18 Log

July 18 Log - Dr. Bracken-Grissom and one of our shrimp specimens.

July 18 Log

July 18 Log - Carefully deploying the ROV Global Explorer to go and collect some deep-sea crustaceans!

July 18 Log

July 18 Log - Squat lobsters being studied after collection (left) and in their natural habitat (right).

July 18 Log

July 18 Log - Crabs intertwined.

July 17 Log

July 17 Log - Sunset over a distant oil rig.

July 17 Log

July 17 Log - Sönke Johnsen holds the fiber optic probe to a color standard.

July 17 Log

July 17 Log - A pink sea anemone and two brittle stars on a branching coral.

July 17 Log

July 17 Log - The coral, Chrysogorgia, under regular white light (left) and with bioluminescence (right).

July 17 Log

July 17 Log - The coral, Chrysogorgia, with the crab, Uroptychus.

July 16 Log

July 16 Log - A view of the wetlab aboard the R/V Pelican before equipment setup.

July 16 Log

July 16 Log - A view of the wetlab aboard the R/V Pelican after equipment setup.

July 16 Log

July 16 Log - Sönke Johnsen's sparse equipment setup in the wetlab.

July 16 Log

July 16 Log - The ROV Global Explorer preparing to be dropped.

Mission Plan

Mission Plan - Bioluminescent gold coral (formerly Gerardia sp.) occupied by crabs (arrows).

Mission Plan

Mission Plan - In situ image of blue-green bioluminescence of gold coral with blue bioluminescence from a planktonic animal.

Mission Plan

Mission Plan - Bathynomus giganteus.

Mission Plan

Mission Plan - Exploration sites for 2015 in the Gulf of Mexico.

Bioluminescence

Bioluminescence

Bioluminescence - Examples of the various uses of bioluminescence.

Vision in the Deep

Vision in the Deep

Vision in the Deep - Diagram of monochromatic light.

Vision in the Deep

Vision in the Deep

Vision in the Deep - Spectral sensitivity in a species with putative blue and violet visual pigments.

Vision in the Deep

Vision in the Deep

Vision in the Deep - Spectral sensitivity in a species with a single blue visual pigment.

Vision in the Deep

Vision in the Deep

Vision in the Deep - Figure 4. The differences between RNA and DNA.

Vision in the Deep

Vision in the Deep

Vision in the Deep - Flow of genetic information.

ROV Global Explorer

ROV Global Explorer

ROV Global Explorer - Deep Sea Systems Global Explorerremotely operated vehicle.

ROV Global Explorer

ROV Global Explorer

ROV Global Explorer - BioBox and manipulator arm on Global Explorer.

Medusa Lander

Medusa Lander - Medusa and e-jelly.

Medusa Lander

Medusa Lander - The e-jelly.

Medusa Lander

Medusa Lander - Atolla wyvillei burglar alarm display which the e-jelly emulates.

Deep-sea Gulf of Mexico Habitats

Deep-sea Gulf of Mexico Habitats

Deep-sea Gulf of Mexico Habitats - White living colonies of Lophelia pertusa on a build-up of dead branches.