Transcript New Views of Ocean Life: Visualization in CoML

New Views of Ocean
Life: Visualization in
CoML – the 2005
Hidden Ocean
Expedition
Russ Hopcroft
poorly known,
changing
July 2005,
~2 dozen ROV
dives beneath
the ice
ROV Global Explorer II
• 2850 m (9000 ft)
working depth
• HD camera and
recorder
• Neutral tether last
50m
• 4 static D-samplers
• 12 bucket suctionsampler
Hi-tech “Sexy” science: visual products of public interest!
Many soft-bodied forms surprisingly abundant, but don’t
collect/preserve well… or are simply unstudied
New records
of presence in
the Arctic
Number of comb-jellies
known in Arctic doubled
from 5 to 10, includes new
species
Plus lots of known
species…. of
unappreciated beauty