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ALT Highlights from Nancy Foster 2022: Illuminating deep waters off Puerto Rico. NOAA Library Seminars. Presenter: Andrea Quattrini, Expedition Chief Scientist, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
ALT Members of the science team prepare the coral elevator to deliver coral fragments to the seafloor for outplanting.
ALT Callogorgia coral fragments are outplanted on the seafloor near other Callogorgia corals at Ewing Bank
ALT Coral fragments are placed on the coral elevator, ready to be lowered to the seafloor for outplanting.
ALT A flyer advertising the webinar “Highlights from Nancy Foster 2022: Illuminating Deep Waters off Puerto Rico.” The flyer notes that the event will feature Andrea Quattrini, the expedition’s Chief Scientist and Curator of Corals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The flyer features several pictures of Dr. Quattrini on the expedition.
ALT Members of the science team prepare the coral elevator to deliver coral fragments to the seafloor for outplanting.
ALT Callogorgia coral fragments are outplanted on the seafloor near other Callogorgia corals at Ewing Bank
ALT Coral fragments are placed on the coral elevator, ready to be lowered to the seafloor for outplanting.
ALT A pelican stands outside a glass office door, waiting to be let in.
ALT Close up of pelican with monofilament line wrapped around its foot.
ALT Fish swimming just above the seafloor
ALT Three images. On top is a whale and calf from above and below are an image of a yellow NOAA buoy and a yellow autonomous vehicle on a boat. Text reads "kinda chic to use robots to listen to whales" with a tech banner at the bottom.
ALT close up photo of octocoral Swiftia exserta
ALT Krill photo by Uwe Kils via Wikimedia Commons.
ALT three people in white hard hats prepare to deploy AUV over side of ship into ocean
ALT two people in white hard hats recover AUV from ocean
ALT five people return AUV to cage on back deck of ship
ALT Three-dimensional bathymetric map of Vailulu'u underwater volcano crater featuring an acoustic sonar cross-section slice of a hydrothermal plume.
ALT a yellow lab smiles at us from the middle of a blue-green wave in the ocean. his front paws are mid-paddle. soft seafoam has formed on the beach. the lab is glad you're watching. he wanted you to see him having the time of his life.