The @calacademy.bsky.social has named MBARI Senior Scientist Kelly Benoit-Bird a 2026 Fellow, recognizing her contributions to advance the Academy’s mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-s...

MBARI Senior Scientist Kelly Benoit-Bird named a California Academy of Sciences Fellow • MBARI

The California Academy of Sciences has named MBARI Senior Scientist Kelly Benoit-Bird a 2026 Fellow, recognizing her contributions to the field of marine ecology to advance the Academy’s mission to re...

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University of Ghana grad student Stefania Emunah in the ROV control seat: www.mbari.org/news/a-peek-...

A peek into the deep ocean • Chasing Marine Snowstorms: Fall 2026 • Expeditions • MBARI

From the control room on R/V David Packard, ROV Doc Ricketts reveals breathtaking beauty deep beneath the ocean’s surface.

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It is such a privilege to work with our oceanographer colleagues in Ghana. I have learned so much from this incredible project centered in Accra.

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MBARI researchers participated in an expedition with the Ocean Margins Initiative to deploy advanced imaging systems to study marine snow and reveal key oceanographic processes in the Gulf of Guinea. Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-r...

Comfort Opoku is visiting our lab from the University of Ghana and helped us observe zooplankton on our cruise this week. www.mbari.org/news/when-th...

When the ocean never sleeps: Exploring zooplankton aboard R/V David Packard • Chasing Marine Snowstorms: Fall 2026 • Expeditions • MBARI

Science happens around the clock to observe the natural rhythm of marine life and processes.

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This week our team @mbarinews.bsky.social is sailing on the R/V David Packard to continue our observations of coastal carbon export by marine snow. Follow along on our expedition blog: www.mbari.org/expedition/c...

Chasing Marine Snowstorms: Fall 2026 • Expeditions • MBARI

September 14–18, 2026 – MBARI’s Carbon Flux Ecology Team will study marine snow to better understand seasonal changes in ocean carbon cycling and monitor how El Niño affects carbon transport to the de...

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Both of these stories were published today, and together pretty much sum it all up for me:

I’m just rollin’ along. How are you?

On Tuesday the Monterey County Board of Supervisors is voting to approve funding for >100 new license plate surveillance cameras and a 10 year contract. Comments can be emailed by Monday, or you can attend the meeting and speak in person. When did we consent to constant surveillance by the police?

Vistra’s battery storage facility, the largest in the world, caught fire in the center of a global academic hub; where state and local agencies failed to study the impacts tied to a growing industry, local researchers and community groups stepped in. shorturl.at/fu4wD

Local researchers fill gaps left by state and local agencies after the Vistra battery fire.

Within days of the 2025 Moss Landing fire, Ivano Aiello, a Prunedale resident and a marine geologist at Moss Landing Marine Labs, noticed something was off. Most obvious were the

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Wow, did you know that Monterey County has at least 316 surveillance cameras recording everyone’s movements? This map from @deflock.org shows their locations. This is among the highest per capita surveillance in the country according to this organization.

For those who celebrate, Saturday is Worldwide Knit in Public Day. #WWKIPD If you leave near Monterey, come join us on the lawn at Colton Hall 12-4pm.Join me at Worldwide Knit in Public Day meetu.ps/e/Q29TJ/BDMp...

Worldwide Knit in Public Day, Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup

**Spread the word! Worldwide Knit in Public Day in** **Saturday June 13th. This event is hosted in partnership with Monterey Public Libraries.** **Gather on the lawn at**

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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...

Oceans Seminar Series | Colleen Durkin

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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

Chasing Marine Snowstorms: Spring 2026 • Expeditions • MBARI

April 9–13, 2026 – MBARI’s Carbon Flux Ecology Team will use advanced imaging systems to study marine snow and measure the transport of carbon to the depths of Monterey Canyon.

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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.

Schmidt Ocean Institute@schmidtocean.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Wow. Foraminifera! ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...

Looks like a fun course!

John Burns@burnsajohn.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Protist lovers: Please apply for a week of rhapsody! Learn by doing: MicroSEA (Microbial Sea Eukaryotes) course is a one-week, field-based summer school to train early-career researchers in the diversity, ecology, and single-cell biology of marine protists. opbc.sciencesconf.org #protistsonsky

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

Schmidt Ocean Institute@schmidtocean.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Wow. Foraminifera! ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...

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

Schmidt Ocean Institute@schmidtocean.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our first #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition video is out! Discover how the science team is studying the gut microbiomes of vertically migrating animals and how these microbiomes affect carbon storage in the deep sea, with support from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmej...

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

Colleen Durkin@cadurkin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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

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...

The snow below: New MBARI technology measures ocean carbon like never before

“If we can find ways to more realistically represent these processes in the models, then our understanding of what’s going to happen in the future should be more accurate.”

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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

How MBARI software engineers help scientists visualize data about the ocean carbon cycle

YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

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