I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

Dr. Luis Buatois (Ph.D.) traces a series of hexagons with his finger, following the path carved by tiny organisms millions of ...

Deep-sea mining can also introduce harmful sediment plumes to fragile ecosystems leading to a growing number of countries calling for a moratorium. Dark oxygen for life ...

Samples for the study came from boreholes, deep-sea sediments, underground aquifers, and rock fractures. Marine environments, particularly deep ocean sediments, were found to harbor high ...

The study of the ecology of marine communities that live on or near the rocks and sediments of the ocean floor. (Crab photo courtesy biological oceanographer Lisa Levin.) CMBC promotes ...