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Karyn Murphy 𓇼𓇼 🐙
@staycurious.bsky.social
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Naturalist in Alaska, ocean conservation, wildlife photography, artist, insatiably curious. Explorers Club member.
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Started listening to #ScienceUnderSiege at work and 3 coworkers started listening in. When I asked if they wanted me to silence it, they said “No, we still want to listen.” Thx @michaelemann.bsky.social
Book cover w microscope. Fire erupting from the microscope stage. Black background
September 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Carniverous Sundew in Tutka Lake bog. Look closely and you can see an insect trapped in its sticky hairs. #alaska
Sundew plant w 6 red pads extended from the base. Each pad has sticky hairs ending in a small globe shape. The plant is surrounded by moss and green leaves if bog cranberry Closeup of sundew sticky pad w hairs closed up around an insect
August 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Some days just end w magic. A mother humpback and calf gave us a playful show tonight. 🦑 #alaska #tutkabay #kachemakbay
Humpback whale beginning a breach. Pectoral fins just clearing the water. Pleats along throat visible.
August 17, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Got my audio book downloaded! Can’t wait!
Cover of Automatc Noidle Noodle
August 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Seastar (Pisaster ochraceus) in water w gills extended across its surface. ##marinelife #intertidal #kachemakbay #alaska 🦑
Closeup of Pinkish red surface covered with hundreds of translucent finger-like tubes extending from seastar surface.
July 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Morning view #tutkabaylodge #kachemakbay #alaska
Spruce trees, red roofed boathouse on stilts and elevated boardwalk surrounding tidal lagoon. Refection of all in glassy water.
July 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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@marthawells.com What character is this blonde woman in the Murderbot trailer? She's not one of the six on the research team. Thx!!
Woman with blonde shoulder length hair looking quizzically at something out of the photo. Wearing a uniform of some type.
May 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Book structure I just finished. It has a whale spectrogram on the center insert. Background is plankton illustration by Masha Titova (artist I am collaborating with). Working on better ways to photograph whole book. QR code goes to whale audio! #cavepaper #sciart #marinelife #spectrogram Thx NOAA
Blue Cave Paper, with nested Arches watercolor paper, in a double accordion book structure. Center insert has background of plankton illustrations and black lines of spectrogram (horizontally across entire book). Title of book is Whale Song. QR code at back of book goes to NOAA website with the original wav file.
May 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Plankton tow near our Tutka Bay dock yielded these beauties under the microscope. #marinelife #plankton #kachemakbay #tutkabaylodge #alaska
Plankton: Rectangles in a spiral chain. Plankton composed of rectangles in a chain, each rectangle has small circular cellular material Plankton composed of four wide rectangles stacked. Each rectangle has two rows of spheres of yellow green cellular material. Thin hairlike mobility appendages are in pairs at the intersection if each rectangular segment Plankton: oval shapes filled w yellow, green cellular material in a chain connected by short hairlike fibers
May 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Happy May Day!
Paper woven into small basket w small purple flowers and tag w “Happy May Day” hanging on a doir knob. Traditionally we hang, ring bell, and run
May 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Today’s minus tide superstars are the chitons! #marinelife 🦑 #intertidal #minustide #kachemakbay #alaska #tutkabay
Chiton w blue lines on its plates. S pink coiled worm on one plate Oval shaped Chiton w green girdle, overlapping plates are orange to brown w white curvy lines Green-brown girdle w nubby protrusions. Plates are olive green w cream colored triangles Chiton w Speckled girdle w yellow spots, plates mostly brown w thin blue lines and three plates have narrow white triangle
April 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Bobtail squid in the intertidal today. #marinelife #tutkabay #cephalopod #alaska
Squid showing lighter color, only a bit of pink speckles. Closeup of squid eye. Chromatophores much redder. Even closer look at squid eye. Horizontal slit.
April 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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We are in Tutka Bay (Kachemak Bay, AK) for this minus tide cycle. Lots of Evasterias, a dozen or so Pycnopodia, many Dermasterias (w some tiny babies!) and all the other usual suspects. We found a Giant Sea Peach (12”!), the largest I have seen. More to come today 🦑 #marinelife #seastars #intertidal
Striped sun star. Solaster. Orang w blue stripes on 10 arms Leather star. Dermasterias imbricata. Grey blue w mottled orange on pudgy surface w 5 stubby arms Inverted Pycnopodia (Sunflower seastar) shoing off hundreds of tube feet as it clings to underside of a rock. Painted or Rainbow seastar. Bright red/pink w many white spikes on 5 arms. Orthasterias koehler.
April 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Gorgeous stalked crinoid. Zoomed in this close we can see the white "Fuzzy" appendages on the feathery pinnules that branch off the arms. #OkeanosExplorer EX2503 dive 3 #Papahānaumokuākea #MarineLife
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Orange feathery stalked crinoid. The cup extends from center and arms bend back in the sea current. Closeup of the pinnules shows the white feathery extensions covering the pinnules.
April 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Look at that Face!!! #OkeanosExplorer EX2503 dive 3 #Papahānaumokuākea #MarineLife
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Close up of purplish/gray fish in deep sea. Has very small angler type protrusion between eyes. Small white spikes extend from bulbous body purplish/gray fish in deep sea. Has very small angler type protrusion between eyes. Small white spikes extend from bulbous body
April 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Nice anemone! #OkeanosExplorer EX2503 dive 3 #Papahānaumokuākea #MarineLife
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Lovely anemone. Pinkish tentacles. Looks like a pompom.
April 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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This potentially undescribed crinoid is the first sample of Dive 3! #OkeanosExplorer EX2503 dive 3 #Papahānaumokuākea #MarineLife
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ROV robotic claw approaches crinoid on tall stalk with many frilly orange branches at top. Tiny filaments at each edge.
April 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Oh cool! In addition to the ROV livestream video of dives, NOAA is mapping the sea floor. Here are some seafloor maps of the area below Okeanos Explorer showing the seamount area that is being explored. #OkeanosExplorer EX2503 dive 3 #Papahānaumokuākea #MarineLife
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Magenta sea floor area, topographic lines show three seamounts. Topographic lines highlight the seamounts from a more side view. Seafloor is maroon.
April 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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And here's a look at the control room and the people who are running and monitoring the testing going on right now on the deck.
Over a dozen monitors in a control room.
April 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Morning prep of ROV before Dive 3. Hydraulics, cameras, propulsion, etc are all checked. #OkeanosExplorer Dive 3 #Papahānaumokuākea #MarineLife
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Underwater ROV is sitting on ship deck while crew walk around and check various systems. Many components and tubing are visible (there is not a full enclosure on the ROV)
April 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Just watched the ascent of Deep Discoverer ROV from almost 5K meters depth and its retrieval onto the deck of NOAA's Okeanos Explorer. Here you see one of the crew removing a cylindrical specimen bio-box with one of the collected specimens from today. #OkeanosExplorer EX2503 dive 2 #MarineLife 🦑
NOAA Deep Discoverer ROV onboard Okeanos as crew secures with straps and unloads samples.
April 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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When the Okeanos Explorer ROV finds something unique or unknown or rare, sometimes the scientists request a sample collection. The robotic arms and bio-boxes for retrieval are especially interesting to watch. #OkeanosExplorer EX2503 dive 2 #Papahānaumokuākea #MarineLife
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collage of four cameras on ROV showing the robotic arm collecting a specimen by cutting the stem and gently removing the head. White stalk, starburst like top with tentacles extending out.
April 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Gorgeous seastar. #OkeanosExplorer EX2503 dive 2 #Papahānaumokuākea #MarineLife #echinoderm
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Six armed seastar with feather like arms. Small, orange central disk.
April 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Sea Pig!!! #OkeanosExplorer EX2503 dive 2 #Papahānaumokuākea #MarineLife 🦑
Yellow translucent cylindrical body with fleshy spikes extending from body.
April 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Deep sea gastropod. #okeanos #marinelife #deepsea
White shell gastropod with foot and siphone extended.
April 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM