I'm sharing our work on marine snow at the Hopkins Marine Station (@stanforddoerr.bsky.social ) this Friday. Looking forward to connecting with the community at Stanford and sharing BRAND NEW data!!!! @mbarinews.bsky.social events.stanford.edu/event/oceans...

We are sailing on our team's first ever R/V David Packard cruise!!! Of course our team decided to do every single activity we every do, in only 5 days. www.mbari.org/expedition/c... @mbarinews.bsky.social

It is so amazing that we can study protists (single celled organisms) using an ROV. We collected one of these on the #LivingBioreactors cruise on the @schmidtocean.bsky.social R/V Falkor last month. It went to a colleague studying the chemistry of their calcium carbonate shells.

Looks like a fun course!

so beautiful. good morning world, keep the beauty going.

The #OBVI #LivingBioreactors science team spent a little over a month aboard R/V Falkor (too) in the South Atlantic off the coast of Argentina, with support from ‪@SchmidtSciences‬ Ocean Biogeochemistry Virtual Institute. Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMlZ5qe69pU

Jaw-dropping jellyfish, Poralia sp, 1,414m (ID, Dr. Anela Choy) “There are many mysteries to uncover,” Choy writes. “But perhaps this beautiful brownish, reddish medusae has a unique role to play in connecting carbon flow between the deep water column with the seafloor.” #OBVI #LivingBioreactors

Working on image processing code in my new office on the Falkor too, while we transit to the next station. #LivingBioreactors @schmidtocean.bsky.social

My co-PIs Anita and Anela are so inspiring. Check out this video explaining why I am spending 35 days at sea! #LivingBioreactors @schmidtocean.bsky.social #OBVI @mbarinews.bsky.social

Deja vu: starting another ROV dive tonight. I hope we see more deep sea phaeodarians tonight. #LivingBioreactors

Halfway through our #LivingBioreactors cruise track from Argentina to Brazil (orange carrot on the map). We couldn't decide whether we should stop at station 6 or station 7 and are now somewhere in between. So I guess we decided on 6🤷‍♀️7? 🫠

Just starting another #LivingBioreactors ROV dive. Check it out on the @schmidtocean.bsky.social YouTube live stream.

Our next #LivingBioreactors ROV dive is tonight (midnight our time). Hope we can capture the night time upward migration of midwater animals. @schmidtocean.bsky.social

It sounds like there are lots of people excited to tune into the next #LivingBioreactors ROV dive aboard the Falkor too. FYI I think this will be two days from now. We are steaming offshore and deploying a bunch of really cool instruments before getting eyes in the midwater.

Happy #CTDAppreciationDay from the #LivingBioreactors cruise on the Falkor too. Our CTD is friends with an ISIIS-DPI shadowgraph camera. @schmidtocean.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social #OBVI

Just sailed off on the Falkor too for a 32 day research cruise from windy Argentina! We are studying deep sea animals and how their gut microbiomes transform marine snow as it sinks to the deep ocean. @schmidtocean.bsky.social #LivingBioreactors #OBVI @mbarinews.bsky.social

Our new instrument, the SINKing Ecology Robot (SINKER) was highlighted recently in the Monterey Herald. I love how this story highlights the contributions of the diverse team require to make these kind of advancements in ocean science. www.montereyherald.com/2026/01/09/t...

End of the workday @mbarinews.bsky.social . December sunsets are the best in Moss Landing.

MBARI’s software engineers play a vital role in transforming troves of ocean data into meaningful insights. They design and develop the software that powers MBARI’s autonomous robots, imaging platforms, and data pipelines. Learn more about what they do: youtu.be/MpeC74TOyvY

MBARI’s mechanical technicians and engineers collaborated closely to build a titanium frame capable of holding cameras, sensors, and instruments used in the SINKER—SINKing Ecology Robot—imaging system, which collects vital carbon data. 🔧 🌊 🔬 Learn more: youtu.be/6_elP8a1o0M?...

I want to see the particles that sink carbon to the deep ocean, all the time and in real time.This summer we built an instrument that collects images of sinking particles every second, and visualizes them in 5 different ways. @mbarinews.bsky.social youtu.be/4xXGlnCoik8

Just recently, on linkedin, the former director of NASA GSFC said that more than 32% of the Goddard workforce is gone. 32% That is insane. They are destroying us completely.

Seen in Accra

The Carbon Flux Ecology team is teaching at #coessing2025 this week at University of Ghana! Who else is here? Let’s connect! We are teaching a marine imaging class, but excited to talk all things ocean science and engineering. @mbarinews.bsky.social

Our first deployment of a surface-tethered sediment trap in Gulf of Guinea! We are trying to build these arrays using supplies from the Tema canoe fisherman’s market. @mbarinews.bsky.social

Congratulations to Natalia Llopis Monferrer for being selected as an awardee of the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation 2025 Awards in Field Biology! 🔬 🎉 Learn more about the awards and Natalia's work: www.maxwell-hanrahan.org/award/natali....

Congratulations to the latest Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation Field Biology Award winner Natalia Llopis Monferrer!!! I am so proud of her! www.maxwell-hanrahan.org/award/natali... @mbarinews.bsky.social

Dropping these two beauties in Monterey Bay this week. Both measure carbon sequestration in the deep ocean. Lots of good data to come. @mbarinews.bsky.social

Can a teeny little phytoplankton cell sink through the mesopelagic 🌊? Usually, we assume they must be packaged inside larger aggregates. We found that a small but distinct part of the population does sink through the mesopelagic! doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Sailing on the R/V Endeavor this week with my besties.

How do phytoplankton export carbon into the deep sea? Which phytoplankton taxa drive the most carbon export? We used DNA to identify which phytoplankton are packaged in exported particles during the NASA EXPORTS field campaigns. @mbarinews.bsky.social 's summary: www.mbari.org/news/marine-...

Our event got the Monterey County Weekly bump. Can’t wait to see what @celiajimenez.bsky.social wears tomorrow. www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/opinio...

I hear that lots of people are gathering in public tomorrow. I can’t believe there are so many people celebrating Worldwide Knit in Public Day! #WWKIPD 😉

Can’t wait to join them in August with our team from @mbarinews.bsky.social ! We are excited to learn from our colleagues in Ghana.

June in Monterey=turning the heater back on 🙁#coastalupwelling

June 14th is Worldwide Knit in Public Day! Join you fellow yarn enthusiasts on the lawn at Colton Hall from 12-4 in Monterey. All fiber arts are welcome. Bring a picnic and your latest project. 🧶🧺 #montereybay

Why do some planktonic protists develop a gelatinous matrix? We suggest that this original adaptation is a strategy to cope with ocean oligotrophy: doi.org/10.1111/1462... Led by @n-llopis-m.bsky.social, and thanks to all co-authors, I'm very happy to finally see it out! #protistsonsky

This week at work: SCUBA diving with our underwater microscope in Hawaii. Can’t wait to share the amazing view we are getting of the plankton!

I ❤️ this crew!

Friends, sign up! or send your students, postdocs, techs or whomever wants to play with NASA PACE data!

And…..we got it back!

Beginnings of a collaborative art project with my knitting group 🧶 #weekendknitting

Dropped this giant platform in the ocean yesterday carrying new imaging instruments. Hope to see some beautiful marine snow data when we recover next week! @mbarinews.bsky.social

I am so grateful to @edelger.bsky.social that weaved this story, and delivered so beautifully. thank you for talking to us ❤️ 🌊🌈🛰️

“Battery Fire Day” in Moss Landing again.

Cool illustration. ❤️📖

I know there's a lot going on this week, but @vgwschutte.bsky.social just told me there's a new movie where Kristen Stewart is an ocean buoy who falls in love with a satellite (an ocean observing satellite?! GOES-16?) and all I can think about are the lives of actual ocean buoys. A thread...

Identifying marine snow particles is difficult, but will help measure how much carbon the ocean is sequestering. Check out our new study using a human-in-the-loop computer vision approach for marine snow classification. @mbarinews.bsky.social aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A beautifully written perspective on diatoms and the silicon and carbon cycle, written by a radiolarian-lover @n-llopis-m.bsky.social