Photo album:
Coral Dive Highlights July 2, 2013
This is the highlight dive album for the July 2, 2013 dive in the Gulf of Mexico. The cliff that we dove on is called the Florida Escarpment. The scientists collected corals and explored the diversity of corals on this site. We also saw interesting organisms such as squid, octopus, crustaceans, sea cucumbers and fish.
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.
