Schmidt Ocean Institute
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Boldly exploring our unknown Ocean
Monday mayhem!
We've never seen a scallop crash into an anemone riding a snail through a seafloor field of brittle stars either — but hey, you explore to see something new, right?!
ROV footage from #Ecosde2Cañones expedition along the Patagonian shelf break.
We've never seen a scallop crash into an anemone riding a snail through a seafloor field of brittle stars either — but hey, you explore to see something new, right?!
ROV footage from #Ecosde2Cañones expedition along the Patagonian shelf break.
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Monday mayhem!
We've never seen a scallop crash into an anemone riding a snail through a seafloor field of brittle stars either — but hey, you explore to see something new, right?!
ROV footage from #Ecosde2Cañones expedition along the Patagonian shelf break.
We've never seen a scallop crash into an anemone riding a snail through a seafloor field of brittle stars either — but hey, you explore to see something new, right?!
ROV footage from #Ecosde2Cañones expedition along the Patagonian shelf break.
During a 2021 expedition, scientists explored an offshore dumpsite, where barrels of toxic byproducts of the insecticide DDT were dumped between 1947 & 1972. Join us for a discussion w/ expedition scientists. Register now: https://schmidtocean-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bGCuKTmDSrGydYHaoYFbuw
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
During a 2021 expedition, scientists explored an offshore dumpsite, where barrels of toxic byproducts of the insecticide DDT were dumped between 1947 & 1972. Join us for a discussion w/ expedition scientists. Register now: https://schmidtocean-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bGCuKTmDSrGydYHaoYFbuw
On 21 Nov. 2025, join us for a @schmidtocean.bsky.social Back Ashore webinar w/ Johanna Gutleben, Paul Jensen & Lihini Aluwihare from @scrippsocean.bsky.social, who will share findings from the 2021 #BiodiverseBorderlands expedition. Register now: schmidtocean-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
On 21 Nov. 2025, join us for a @schmidtocean.bsky.social Back Ashore webinar w/ Johanna Gutleben, Paul Jensen & Lihini Aluwihare from @scrippsocean.bsky.social, who will share findings from the 2021 #BiodiverseBorderlands expedition. Register now: schmidtocean-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#Ecosde2Cañones sea life & fish w/antifreeze proteins! “It was wonderful to see the notothenioid fish curiously approach the ROV camera, reminding us that every encounter with marine life is deeply connected to the physical dynamics shaping their environment.” - Chief Scientist Dr. Silvia Romero
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
#Ecosde2Cañones sea life & fish w/antifreeze proteins! “It was wonderful to see the notothenioid fish curiously approach the ROV camera, reminding us that every encounter with marine life is deeply connected to the physical dynamics shaping their environment.” - Chief Scientist Dr. Silvia Romero
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30 previously unknown deep-sea species, including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge, have been confirmed from one of the most remote parts of the planet by The Nippon Foundation–Nekton @oceancensus.bsky.social and collaborators. ecomagazine.com/news/researc...
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Recent Expeditions Confirm Discovery of 30 Previously Unknown Deep-Sea Species - environment coastal & offshore
Thirty previously unknown deep-sea species, including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge, have been confirmed from one of the most remote parts of the planet by The Nippon Foundation–Nekton Ocean Censu...
ecomagazine.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
30 previously unknown deep-sea species, including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge, have been confirmed from one of the most remote parts of the planet by The Nippon Foundation–Nekton @oceancensus.bsky.social and collaborators. ecomagazine.com/news/researc...
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A swingin’ seafloor hotspot! 🎶
This #Ecosde2Cañones footage fr the Patagonian shelf break is an excellent example of collective foraging behavior. Fish & other creatures navigate deep-sea currents to access an area rich w/nutrients — these vital energy hubs at the interface of shelf & open Ocean.
This #Ecosde2Cañones footage fr the Patagonian shelf break is an excellent example of collective foraging behavior. Fish & other creatures navigate deep-sea currents to access an area rich w/nutrients — these vital energy hubs at the interface of shelf & open Ocean.
November 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A swingin’ seafloor hotspot! 🎶
This #Ecosde2Cañones footage fr the Patagonian shelf break is an excellent example of collective foraging behavior. Fish & other creatures navigate deep-sea currents to access an area rich w/nutrients — these vital energy hubs at the interface of shelf & open Ocean.
This #Ecosde2Cañones footage fr the Patagonian shelf break is an excellent example of collective foraging behavior. Fish & other creatures navigate deep-sea currents to access an area rich w/nutrients — these vital energy hubs at the interface of shelf & open Ocean.
A #Taleof2Canyons & an octopus! 186m, Patagonian red octopus, or Enteroctopus megalocyathus, hovering over a patch of sediment, lighter in color than the surrounding area, the cephalopod opened up like an umbrella to feed, likely on a crustacean. Read more: www.instagram.com/reel/DQnH14c...
November 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A #Taleof2Canyons & an octopus! 186m, Patagonian red octopus, or Enteroctopus megalocyathus, hovering over a patch of sediment, lighter in color than the surrounding area, the cephalopod opened up like an umbrella to feed, likely on a crustacean. Read more: www.instagram.com/reel/DQnH14c...
World Ocean Explorer has been invited to present from the main stage at the Unity Technologies annual conference, 17 -20 November 2025. Learn more: https://unity.com/events/unite
November 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
World Ocean Explorer has been invited to present from the main stage at the Unity Technologies annual conference, 17 -20 November 2025. Learn more: https://unity.com/events/unite
BOO! 👻🎃👻
No costume for Halloween? No problem. Channel your inner sea urchin: go into your closet (or sunken treasure chest), and throw on all the outfits at once! A few clams, some snails, and carnivorous sponges for drama ought to help keep your fellow partiers in high spirits.
#Ecosde2Cañones
No costume for Halloween? No problem. Channel your inner sea urchin: go into your closet (or sunken treasure chest), and throw on all the outfits at once! A few clams, some snails, and carnivorous sponges for drama ought to help keep your fellow partiers in high spirits.
#Ecosde2Cañones
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
BOO! 👻🎃👻
No costume for Halloween? No problem. Channel your inner sea urchin: go into your closet (or sunken treasure chest), and throw on all the outfits at once! A few clams, some snails, and carnivorous sponges for drama ought to help keep your fellow partiers in high spirits.
#Ecosde2Cañones
No costume for Halloween? No problem. Channel your inner sea urchin: go into your closet (or sunken treasure chest), and throw on all the outfits at once! A few clams, some snails, and carnivorous sponges for drama ought to help keep your fellow partiers in high spirits.
#Ecosde2Cañones
At the 57th Barcolana regatta, @wendyschmidt.bsky.social, @schmidtocean.bsky.social & @11thhourracing.bsky.social partnered with w/Italian event agency Piano b to create a short film, told from the Ocean's perspective & viewed in the Piazza Unità d’Italia. youtu.be/BtbqxEHk-jM
An Ocean’s Song | Barcolana 2025 (English)
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
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October 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
At the 57th Barcolana regatta, @wendyschmidt.bsky.social, @schmidtocean.bsky.social & @11thhourracing.bsky.social partnered with w/Italian event agency Piano b to create a short film, told from the Ocean's perspective & viewed in the Piazza Unità d’Italia. youtu.be/BtbqxEHk-jM
The #Ecosde2Cañones team collected oceanographic data to better understand how the shape of the seafloor & powerful currents influence productivity in Argentina; they will return home w/new questions & the memory of seeing life pulsing through these canyons.
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Complexity in Nature | A Tale of Two Canyons
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
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October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The #Ecosde2Cañones team collected oceanographic data to better understand how the shape of the seafloor & powerful currents influence productivity in Argentina; they will return home w/new questions & the memory of seeing life pulsing through these canyons.
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Announcement: 30 new species discovered from expeditions to the Southern Ocean. Read more 👇
oceancensus.org/press-releas...
@schmidtocean.bsky.social #NewSpecies
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@schmidtocean.bsky.social #NewSpecies
Carnivorous “Death-Ball” Sponge Among 30 New Deep-Sea Species from the Southern Ocean
Thirty previously unknown deep-sea species, including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge, have been confirmed from one of the most remote parts of the planet by The Nippon Foundation–Nekton Ocean Censu...
oceancensus.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Announcement: 30 new species discovered from expeditions to the Southern Ocean. Read more 👇
oceancensus.org/press-releas...
@schmidtocean.bsky.social #NewSpecies
oceancensus.org/press-releas...
@schmidtocean.bsky.social #NewSpecies
A little terror for your Tuesday!
Basket star filmed by ROV pilots at ~270 m during the #Taleof2Canyons — these many-armed ophiuroids capture prey w/ease. Escape is unlikely thanks to tiny hooks & sticky mucus-covered limbs. Once ensnared, tube feet shuttle the meal towards the animal’s mouth.
Basket star filmed by ROV pilots at ~270 m during the #Taleof2Canyons — these many-armed ophiuroids capture prey w/ease. Escape is unlikely thanks to tiny hooks & sticky mucus-covered limbs. Once ensnared, tube feet shuttle the meal towards the animal’s mouth.
October 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A little terror for your Tuesday!
Basket star filmed by ROV pilots at ~270 m during the #Taleof2Canyons — these many-armed ophiuroids capture prey w/ease. Escape is unlikely thanks to tiny hooks & sticky mucus-covered limbs. Once ensnared, tube feet shuttle the meal towards the animal’s mouth.
Basket star filmed by ROV pilots at ~270 m during the #Taleof2Canyons — these many-armed ophiuroids capture prey w/ease. Escape is unlikely thanks to tiny hooks & sticky mucus-covered limbs. Once ensnared, tube feet shuttle the meal towards the animal’s mouth.
...like water or glass that turns into anything,
into smoke, into a spiral,
into a building, a fish, a stone, a rose.
I am different from me, so different...
“Song” by Poet Silvina Ocampo, transl. by Jason Weiss; full poem: granta.com/song/
#Ecosde2CañonesSouth, American sea nettle, 324m
into smoke, into a spiral,
into a building, a fish, a stone, a rose.
I am different from me, so different...
“Song” by Poet Silvina Ocampo, transl. by Jason Weiss; full poem: granta.com/song/
#Ecosde2CañonesSouth, American sea nettle, 324m
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
...like water or glass that turns into anything,
into smoke, into a spiral,
into a building, a fish, a stone, a rose.
I am different from me, so different...
“Song” by Poet Silvina Ocampo, transl. by Jason Weiss; full poem: granta.com/song/
#Ecosde2CañonesSouth, American sea nettle, 324m
into smoke, into a spiral,
into a building, a fish, a stone, a rose.
I am different from me, so different...
“Song” by Poet Silvina Ocampo, transl. by Jason Weiss; full poem: granta.com/song/
#Ecosde2CañonesSouth, American sea nettle, 324m
@schmidtocean.bsky.social is thrilled to sponsor Ocean Floor Explore — a #MapTheGaps Symposium to build new pathways for seafloor mapping and deep ocean discovery. Join us October 26-29 and be part of the last great exploration on Earth. Learn more at oceanfloorexplore.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
@schmidtocean.bsky.social is thrilled to sponsor Ocean Floor Explore — a #MapTheGaps Symposium to build new pathways for seafloor mapping and deep ocean discovery. Join us October 26-29 and be part of the last great exploration on Earth. Learn more at oceanfloorexplore.org
The #Ecosde2Cañones team is studying the intricate interplay of ocean features such as currents, wind, circulation, density, temperature, and salinity as they examine the exchange of energy between the atmosphere, the Ocean, and the Earth.
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Studying the Invisible | A Tale of Two Canyons
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
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October 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The #Ecosde2Cañones team is studying the intricate interplay of ocean features such as currents, wind, circulation, density, temperature, and salinity as they examine the exchange of energy between the atmosphere, the Ocean, and the Earth.
youtu.be/pf8cIYFeYJM?...
youtu.be/pf8cIYFeYJM?...
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🐟 A deep-sea spa day for a celebrated species! Scientists found red cusk-eels nestled in tubeworm “bushes” at a methane seep off Chile’s coast. It's the first time this commercially important species has been documented using methane seeps as habitat. @schmidtocean.bsky.social
Commercially Important Fish Found Congregating at Methane Seep Off Chile
A team of scientists from Chile and the United States discovered dozens of red cusk-eels, fish prized in Chilean seafood markets and celebrated in a poem by renowned Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, embedde...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🐟 A deep-sea spa day for a celebrated species! Scientists found red cusk-eels nestled in tubeworm “bushes” at a methane seep off Chile’s coast. It's the first time this commercially important species has been documented using methane seeps as habitat. @schmidtocean.bsky.social
The #ChileMargin2024 science team discovered dozens of red cusk-eels in a bushy thicket of tubeworms at a methane seep off the coast of central Chile. The study was published Ecology on 10/18; the research was supported by @schmidtocean.bsky.social & funded by NSF.
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/commerc...
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/commerc...
Commercially Important Fish Found Congregating at Methane Seep Off Chile
A team of scientists from Chile and the United States discovered dozens of red cusk-eels, fish prized in Chilean seafood markets and celebrated in a poem by renowned Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, embedde...
scripps.ucsd.edu
October 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The #ChileMargin2024 science team discovered dozens of red cusk-eels in a bushy thicket of tubeworms at a methane seep off the coast of central Chile. The study was published Ecology on 10/18; the research was supported by @schmidtocean.bsky.social & funded by NSF.
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/commerc...
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/commerc...
In the “2024 Chapman Survey of American Fears,” sharks ranked 52nd, beating insects/arachnids, reptiles, and public speaking on the list of frightful things. Read our full post, and why we think people should find better things to fear on Insta: www.instagram.com/reel/DP2JS7T...
October 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
In the “2024 Chapman Survey of American Fears,” sharks ranked 52nd, beating insects/arachnids, reptiles, and public speaking on the list of frightful things. Read our full post, and why we think people should find better things to fear on Insta: www.instagram.com/reel/DP2JS7T...
In honor of World Squid Day, here's a Moroteuthopsis longimana fr #SouthSandwichIslands. International cephalopod awareness days happen each year in Oct — we celebrate octopuses on the 8th, in honor of their 8 arms, and squid on the 10th, to acknowledge their ten appendages (8 arms and 2 tentacles).
October 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
In honor of World Squid Day, here's a Moroteuthopsis longimana fr #SouthSandwichIslands. International cephalopod awareness days happen each year in Oct — we celebrate octopuses on the 8th, in honor of their 8 arms, and squid on the 10th, to acknowledge their ten appendages (8 arms and 2 tentacles).
This delightful new book by Cara Giaimo and Artist Vlad Stankovic includes a few familiar animals. Do you recognize any of these advice-givers from our ROV dives and videos? orionmagazine.org/article/dear...
Dear Sea Creature - Orion Magazine
Life advice from your favorite ocean dwellers
orionmagazine.org
October 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This delightful new book by Cara Giaimo and Artist Vlad Stankovic includes a few familiar animals. Do you recognize any of these advice-givers from our ROV dives and videos? orionmagazine.org/article/dear...
In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
October 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
Travel to the coast of Chile and into Antarctica via the interactive Schmidt Ocean Institute 2024 Impact Report. We are bringing the depths to light: www.2024annualreport.schmidtocean.org
Impact Report 2024
www.2024annualreport.schmidtocean.org
October 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Travel to the coast of Chile and into Antarctica via the interactive Schmidt Ocean Institute 2024 Impact Report. We are bringing the depths to light: www.2024annualreport.schmidtocean.org
This #MarDelPlataCanyon seastar, despite all the obvious signs, does not have a big butt. The animal does resemble the famous SpongeBob character, Patrick Star.
Read more about seastars with messages from the deep: www.instagram.com/p/DPWpFi9kkI...
Read more about seastars with messages from the deep: www.instagram.com/p/DPWpFi9kkI...
October 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This #MarDelPlataCanyon seastar, despite all the obvious signs, does not have a big butt. The animal does resemble the famous SpongeBob character, Patrick Star.
Read more about seastars with messages from the deep: www.instagram.com/p/DPWpFi9kkI...
Read more about seastars with messages from the deep: www.instagram.com/p/DPWpFi9kkI...
@schmidtocean.bsky.social is thrilled to sponsor Ocean Floor Explore — a #MapTheGaps Symposium to build new pathways for seafloor mapping and deep ocean discovery. Join us October 26-29 and be part of the last great exploration on Earth. Learn more at oceanfloorexplore.org
October 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
@schmidtocean.bsky.social is thrilled to sponsor Ocean Floor Explore — a #MapTheGaps Symposium to build new pathways for seafloor mapping and deep ocean discovery. Join us October 26-29 and be part of the last great exploration on Earth. Learn more at oceanfloorexplore.org