Read the full poem here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/164691...
(Crustacean from #LivingBioreactors expedition.)
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🌊 Marvels in the midwater 🌊
ROV pilots zoomed in on this siphonophore at 755 meters during a recent #OBVI #LivingBioreactors dive offshore of Brazil, offering a breathtaking glimpse of a colonial animal comprised of zooids working in concert to survive and thrive in the deep Ocean.
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It is so amazing that we can study protists (single celled organisms) using an ROV. We collected one of these on the #LivingBioreactors cruise on the @schmidtocean.bsky.social R/V Falkor last month. It went to a colleague studying the chemistry of their calcium carbonate shells.
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「わーお。有孔虫だよ！#OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social
アルゼンチン沖843mの深さで撮影しました。有孔虫は原生生物、つまり単細胞の微生物。パイロットたちはこの映像に残すために慎重にズームインしました。」
すごいインパクトある映像！
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Wow. Foraminifera!
ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...
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Carbon transport, by squid
This is a Teuthowenia pellucida, according to Rachel Chen, from the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors team. After glass squids make the daily trip to surface waters to feed, they return to depths, transferring carbon from the surface ocean to the deep sea.
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All ink, no stink!
Squid ink is a natural, dark-viscous fluid primarily composed of melanin pigment, mucus & water — like a deep-sea smoke screen for a hasty getaway. These ink-blob shapes are called pseudomorphs. Filmed during #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/@schmidtsciences.bsky.social.
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This is the most boring reel (but it isn’t)!
For #OBVI #LivingBioreactors Chief Scientist Anitra Ingalls & team, footage like this changes her view of the Ocean. Each tiny particle of marine snow (decaying organic matter) contains an entire invisible ecosystem.
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The #OBVI #LivingBioreactors science team spent a little over a month aboard R/V Falkor (too) in the South Atlantic off the coast of Argentina, with support from @SchmidtSciences Ocean Biogeochemistry Virtual Institute. Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMlZ5qe69pU
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A larval Macrourid sighting at 917 m! ROV pilots filmed future-fish during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition, supported @schmidtsciences.bsky.social. Scientists are studying midwater organisms and how they sequester carbon.
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900 was the last dive for @schmidtocean.bsky.social #livingbioreactors expedition. The next 1 won't have ROV dives so we have to wait for Designing the Future 3 in April for ROV fun. 1 of my fave marince scientists will be back aboard for that one! 2026 cruise list:
schmidtocean.org/cruises/schm...
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Check out our latest video from the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social — it features Artist-at-Sea Paula Proaño Mesias,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyCt...
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Follow the rainbow into the deep!
This Cestum sp. — also known as the Venus girdle ctenophore — is one of the largest of the comb jellies in our global Ocean. ROV pilots filmed it during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social
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Jaw-dropping jellyfish, Poralia sp, 1,414m
(ID, Dr. Anela Choy)
“There are many mysteries to uncover,” Choy writes. “But perhaps this beautiful brownish, reddish medusae has a unique role to play in connecting carbon flow between the deep water column with the seafloor.” #OBVI #LivingBioreactors
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Celebrating ROV SuBastian's 900th scientific dive since completing sea trials in 2016. Seen in this milestone dive during #LivingBioreactors — a single-celled organism called Foraminifera, a “berried” crustacean (translation: shrimp carrying eggs), several dazzling jellyfish, & a string of salps.
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Salp chain. I fell asleep but saw they collected a Hyaloteuthis before the end of dive! Way to go SOI on 900 dives with ROV SuBastian! This makes about 600 that I've tuned in for. Keep them coming. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
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Squid-shaped-squid. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
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🤔 Thought that was a salp but I don't remember those ever having little locomotion feet. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
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Wiggly striped fish. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
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Siphonophore. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
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Solmissus. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
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Larvacean. Collected! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
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Cyclothone? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
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Bathocyroe. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
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Chuniphyes. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
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Great foraminifera close up. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
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Salps. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
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Aegina. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
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could it be a baby jelly?
maybe… a jellato?
*i’ll see myself out now*
“I don't recognize this jelly. It is very tiny, maybe 1 cm. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife “
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Siphonophore or ctenophore? I see shiny but it doesn't look right for a ctenophore. Bells? Or a weird salp? I am very happy that there's so many things this dive I do not recognize. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
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