Photo album:
Coral Imaging Dive Highlights June 27, 2013
This is a highlight album of our dive on June 27, 2013. Hercules and Argus were diving on a coral site to image corals and take sediment cores. Some of these sights have not been seen before. We saw interesting animals including a feathery-legged shrimp, 2 squid, a siphonophore, a jelly fish, brittle stars and squat lobsters.
Expedition
Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG)
The ECOGIG expedition is part of a larger research program focused on examining the ecosystem-level response to oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico. This research group, the ECOGIG Consortium, is made up of scientists from a wide variety of disciplines studying current flow, ocean chemistry, microbial activity, deep-sea coral communities, and everything in between.
