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Combining more than 120 years of ocean research with the repeatedly ranked No. 1 U.S. institution in innovation, impact and sustainability.

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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
What’s in our backyard? 🌳🌸🐚 This week @theberkeley_bda S3 students joined our team to answer this question, looking at native and invasive plants and animals at Spittal Pond. 🌱 #stemeducation
Berkeley group photoSpittal Pond mangrovesShells in the seashoreBerkeley student
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
It's hard to grasp how large this grouper is until you see it in comparison to the ship's toilet on the left. This appears to be an Atlantic goliath grouper or 'itajara' (Epinephelus itajara). They can reach 800 lbs (350 kg) & 8 feet long (2.5 m) Let's talk about these gentle giants.
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
⛴️ A Community of BATS: The collaborative engine behind the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study 🦇 @bats_ocean @rvatlanticexplorer bios.asu.edu/currents/bat...
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BATS Funding Renewed | BIOS
A Community of BATS: The Collaborative Engine behind the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
A new study shows that ocean bacteria are busiest at night. These tiny organisms play a major role in moving carbon through the ocean, and scientists have found they do much of that work during the night shift! 🌒 🦠🔬 @blancobercial.bsky.social 🔗 bios.asu.edu/currents/oce...
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Ocean Bacteria Work the Night Shift | BIOS
New study finds nighttime peaks in bacterial activity and carbon cycling in the ocean
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🌊 Researchers are studying tiny grazers to better model #zooplankton and ocean food webs in a new Ecological Modelling paper with co-author @zoopgrouplady 🦐 📸 @niimichthyidae www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Becca Beutel @bbeutel.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Great photo summary by MEOPAR on some of what I learned this fall participating in a BATS cruise with @biosstation.bsky.social Thank you to the awesome scientists and crew who made this such a fun and fruitful learning experience! Info on the program and MEOPAR funding here: hubs.li/Q03XN5jJ0
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
🐬 Dive in 2026 💫 Thank you for the effort and support over the past 12 months. Here's to even bigger & better things in 2026! 📸 Paul Lethaby
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
✨🪸 Happy Holidays ✨🪸 And wishing you a happy and healthy new year! 💫
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
New results from the multinational, interdisciplinary Exports Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) field campaign, funded by NASA, provide new insight into climate systems. Led by David Siegel, UC Santa Barbara, and co-authored by BIOS oceanographer Amy Maas 👇
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
We’re excited to exhibit at #AGU25 showcasing work and opportunities at ASU’s School of Ocean Futures and ASU Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. 📍 Stop by AGU Central to connect with Craig Carlson and Kaitlin Noyes and learn more about our work! 🧭
Craig and Kaitlin at AGU tableCraig at tableAGU central
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Hourly measurements from gliders show when and how the ocean produces, recycles, and exports carbon — and why salps matter more than we thought. bios.asu.edu/currents/new...
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New Study Using Ocean Gliders Uncovers Clues About Carbon Cycling in the Sargasso Sea | BIOS
Hourly measurements show when and how the ocean produces, recycles, and exports carbon — and why salps matter more than we thought
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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
#exoCeanadvent Day 10: As winter creeps into Provence we remember warmer days from our fieldwork in Bermuda. We stayed with the lovely folk at @biosstation.bsky.social, like @blancobercial.bsky.social who helped us to look for different foraminifera to catch, than our usual Mediterranean stuff.
Tom and Julie went out a few days ahead of the rest of the team to do a last minute check that all the islands and beaches and bars existed. BIOS, our home for 6 weeks this summer.
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
POV: You’re diving on coral reefs, learning marine ecology, and making lifelong friends and future colleagues while spending 15 weeks living on a research station in Bermuda. 🇧🇲 🔗 learn more about fall semester program that wraps next month! bios.asu.edu/education/fa... 🎥 Kyla Flook
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IEO Gijón/Xixón @gi.ieo.es · 10/11/2025
@biosstation.bsky.social publica el trabajo que está desarrollando un equipo internacional de científic@s, también de nuestro centro, para predecir la llegada de #Physaliaphysalis o #carabelas_portuguesas y determinar cómo afecta el #CambioClimatico a sus trayectorias. bios.asu.edu/currents/pre...
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Predicting the Arrival of the Portuguese Man o' War | BIOS
Scientists are studying how winds, currents, and climate change influence the drift of the Portuguese man o' war in an effort to forecast its seasonal movements
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IEO Gijón/Xixón @gi.ieo.es · 10/11/2025
El equipo científico lo componen @omauniovi.bsky.social, @biosstation.bsky.social, @icman-csic.bsky.social, @ulpgc.es, joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu y www.uc.cl Colabora el Bioparc Acuario de Xixón.
Una carabela portuguesa flotando cerca de la costa de Xixón.Manipulando una carabela portuguesa durante los experimentos de este verano.
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“In Bermuda, you’re going to get in the water & see what it’s like to work in the ocean” Gain hands-on experience through courses like Coral Reef Ecology, Marine Molecular Ecology & Research Diving Methods study abroad. @arizonastateuni.bsky.social asuonline.asu.edu/newsroom/sun...
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From Online Learning to Ocean Exploration: Going to Bermuda | ASU Online
Online ocean futures students at Arizona State University can gain hands-on ocean research experience at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences.
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Researchers are studying how winds, currents, and climate change influence the drift of the Portuguese man o' war in an effort to forecast its seasonal movements. @ieo.es @blancobercial.bsky.social bios.asu.edu/currents/pre...
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Predicting the Arrival of the Portuguese Man o' War | BIOS
Scientists are studying how winds, currents, and climate change influence the drift of the Portuguese man o' war in an effort to forecast its seasonal movements
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
More #NASA #PACE work onboard the RVAE! This time #ASU graduate student Ceridwyn Hunter, part of the Hochberg lab @biosstation.bsky.social, takes radiometric measurements at #BATS. She takes these measurements when the satellite is passing right over us!
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! During the C-CoMP March Cruise, Clio, the biogeochemistry AUV, was used to collect particle samples for proteomics and metagenomics from various depths within the water column. Check out some of these photos of Clio in action:
Michael Jakuba and Chip Breier, along with other members of the research team and crew of the Atlantic Explorer, ready Clio for deployment during the 2025 C-CoMP March cruise. Photo by Daniella Asturias.Clio partially submerged at the ocean’s surface somewhere in the Sargasso Sea. Photo by Claire Garfield.A view of Clio with its back panel removed. The panel is removed to access the stack of clamshells holding the filters containing microbial biomass that were filtered at depth by Clio. Photo by Daniella Asturias.On the 2025 C-CoMP March Cruise, some members of the Clio team (from left to right: Daniella Asturias, Matt McIlvin, Fadime Stemmer, Loay Jabre) pose with a stack of Clio's clamshells shortly before removing and sectioning the filters for metaproteomics and metagenomics analyses. Photo by McKenzie Powers.
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clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Successful dive and recovery to the eddy center, 18 sample depths down to 800 meters deep and engineering tests completed too.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! During our March cruise, C-CoMP researchers deployed SVP drifters during diel sampling. The drifters enabled tracking/sampling the same parcel of water in a Lagrangian approach, aiding efforts to capture diel microbial signals from the same water over time!
Emily Hu (left) and Natalie Graham (right) prepare the drifter for deployment within a lab on the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Photo by Arianna Krinos. Emily Hu (unpictured), Natalie Graham, and Emily Tate deploy a drifter over the side of the R/V Atlantic Explorer during the 2025 March C-CoMP cruise. Photo by Arianna Krinos. Daniella Asturias unpacks the drifters from their shipping box before the beginning of the March 2025 cruise. Photo by Emily Hu.A SVP drifter lays in the grass at BIOS during activation and testing before the beginning of the March 2025 cruise. Photo by Emily Hu.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! And that’s a wrap 🎬on C-CoMP Cruise 2 🚢! We (C-CoMP + AE) accomplished an impressive feat - 95 CTD casts, 110,778 L of sw filtered with @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social, eddy sampling, & 9 exp types across 3 locations - to characterize marine chemical currencies & microbes!
The science personnel of C-CoMP Cruise AE2520 (and Clio) stand together on the stern of the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Parts of the Woods Hole dock and village frame the background of the photo. Photo provided by Elizabeth Kujawinski and edited by Laura Gray.The science personnel of C-CoMP Cruise AE2520 (and Clio) stand together on the stern of the R/V Atlantic Explorer while making various fun poses. Parts of the Woods Hole dock and village frame the background of the photo. Photo provided by Elizabeth Kujawinski and edited by Laura Gray.
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...
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Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 19/09/2025
The High Seas Treaty is the first legal framework aimed at protecting biodiversity in international waters, those that lie beyond the jurisdiction of any single country. to.pbs.org/3VKRnMh
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Nations ratify world's first treaty to protect marine biodiversity in international waters
A major agreement to protect marine diversity in the high seas was struck Friday when Morocco became the 60th nation to sign on, paving the way for the treaty to take effect next year.
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
A big thank you to all the folks at @biosstation.bsky.social, @whoi.edu, and the crew and Captain of the R/V Atlantic Explorer for making this research and cruise possible!
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We wrapped our Research Diving Methods course—3 weeks of dives, discovery, and growth! 🤿 From coral ID to rescue drills and photomosaics, students gained skills in advanced diving, scientific sampling, and @AAUS standards. Guest experts & dives at Bermuda sites like North Rock & Hog Breaker.
Reef transectsRescue diver trainingScubaRDM group photos
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Through hands-on lab and field experiences in coral research to research cruises aboard @rvatlanticexplorer — this year’s cohort of interns are turning passion into purpose. And we’re thrilled to be part of their journey.
Shevon on the Atlantic explorer Mesocosm facility Nanoplastic sampling
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Tech training program focused on ocean research technology kicks off this week — helping students build real-world skills for careers in science. #STEMeducation #Internships 🔗 Check out highlights from last year: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ym03...
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BIOS – Robotics Program '24 Highlight
YouTube video by BIOSstation
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This year’s SCOPE team, mostly grad students and postdocs, highlights our collaborative approach to science & mentorship. The multidisciplinary team investigates the role microbial processes play in shaping the ocean’s chemistry & ecosystems. 🌊 🧬 😎 #time-series
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
@salemstatemco.bsky.social joined us for a hands-on coral & fish monitoring expedition.🪸🐠 Using Coral Point Count, a digital tool for tracking coral cover and diversity, students analyzed reef images to assess species and benthic changes — linking fieldwork to long-term reef conservation.
Coral point countCoral transectCoral point count
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Students from @lacordaireacademy joined researchers to explore Bermuda’s deep-sea #sharks using environmental DNA. The result? Genetic fingerprints of four deep-sea sharks — including a bluntnose sixgill! 🎥 @underwaternoyes #Bermuda
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
For proper monitoring of the oceans, we need to know what we have, and what we do not have. But, sometimes, it is very difficult due to taxonomic challenges. Here we review some of the major issues in the ICES and Mediterranean waters for zooplankton uncertainties academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
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Taxonomic uncertainty in North Atlantic and Mediterranean zooplankton limits species-level monitoring accuracy
Abstract. Taxonomic discussions often permeate the broader scientific community slowly, yet they may hold more relevance than typically assumed. In many zo
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This World Ocean Day, we’re also celebrating our amazing team whose dedication to ocean research, education, and conservation inspires action every day of the year! 🦈 🌎🌊🤿🪸
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This #WorldOceanDay, we celebrate the ocean’s beauty and role in sustaining life—regulating climate, supporting biodiversity, fueling global systems. The ocean connects us — Let’s commit to sustaining what sustains us. 🐟🪸🌊🌎💙
Coral habitat for fishCrew on Atlantic Explorer Divers fish surveyAUV glider
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Aidan Donnelly @aidandonnelly.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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Aidan Donnelly @aidandonnelly.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Earlier this month I was fortunate to visit BIOS in Bermuda to catch fish we think are responsible for CaCO3 found in sediment traps in the Atlantic. I’m happy to report that the trip was a success and we found some very interesting fish with fascinating things in their guts!! #fishcarbonates 🇧🇲🐟
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
First deepwater trials of new tech—combining cameras & acoustic sensors—the system offers less disruptive/more detailed way to study zooplankton up to 1000m. It will be tested against traditional methods & upgraded for adaptive sampling. #worldoceanday
Vampire deploymentVampire toolTechs test the vampireBrennan swims under the vampire
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 07/06/2025
🌊 The ocean sustains life on Earth, yet it faces unprecedented threats. The 2025 UN Ocean Conference will advance global commitments to protect marine ecosystems and #SaveOurOcean: sdgs.un.org/conferences/...
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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Every night is a disco for our foraminifera in their respiration chambers @biosstation.bsky.social with @case4climate.bsky.social @chalkyoceans.bsky.social @juliemeilland.bsky.social 🧪⚒️🌊🪸
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Hidden #biodiversity within Bermuda’s cave systems, home to unique, often undiscovered organisms—tiny, resilient and found nowhere else on Earth. @blancobercial.bsky.social Giovanni Mussini @magdalenecollege.bsky.social #ScienceDiscovery #copepod #Bermuda www.royalgazette.com/general/news...
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Confirmed: Bermudian discovery is new crustacean species
Researchers studying life in the caves of Bermuda have verified the discovery of a new species of tiny crustacean. Findings recently published in the scientific journal ZooKeys said that the copepod w...
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
New #copepod species from a cave in #Bermuda. 🦐 is the first of its kind found in an anchialine environment— and the first record of this genus in Bermuda. Described from a female collected during 2016 expeditions, the paper includes a downloadable 3D model. zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1444...
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A new species of Tetragoniceps Brady, 1880 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Tetragonicipitidae) from an anchialine cave in Bermuda, with an updated key to the species of the genus
Tetragoniceps bermudensis sp. nov. (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Tetragonicipitidae) is described based on an ovigerous female collected from Roadside Cave, a tidally influenced anchialine cavern in Bermu...
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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Bermuda cave sampling today with @blancobercial.bsky.social for these little monsters (lovely forams)! Thank you Leo, @chalkyoceans.bsky.social, @biosstation.bsky.social ! @exoceanlab.bsky.social
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Fresh from the press - a new #copepod species from Roadside cave in #Bermuda. This is female we got during our 2016 expeditions. The manuscript includes a downloadable 3D model! Thanks to Giovanni Mussini from @magdalenecollege.bsky.social for taking the lead! zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1444...
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A new species of Tetragoniceps Brady, 1880 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Tetragonicipitidae) from an anchialine cave in Bermuda, with an updated key to the species of the genus
Tetragoniceps bermudensis sp. nov. (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Tetragonicipitidae) is described based on an ovigerous female collected from Roadside Cave, a tidally influenced anchialine cavern in Bermu...
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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
We're away from our lovely light and temperature controlled incubators @exoceanlab.bsky.social, but that doesn't mean we can't keep our plankton happy. @biosstation.bsky.social water baths to the rescue. If you've ever wondered what culturing for trace isotope systems looks like, it's this! #d11B
Dozens of small plastic flasks, each containing an individual foram sit in a temperature controlled water bath, under lights.
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
We were honored to welcome Antoinette Hurtado, the new U.S. Consul General to #Bermuda! Her visit highlighted strong ASU BIOS–U.S. ties, student opportunities, deep-ocean tech, and long-term ocean research onboard the Atlantic Explorer. 🌊🇺🇸 #oceanresearch #STEM #studyabroad
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warren-lab.bsky.social @warren-lab.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Leg 2 of our VAMPIRE at BATS cruise: buoys, backscatter, Gumby suits, and a gulper eel. @stonybrooku.bsky.social @biosstation.bsky.social @urigso.bsky.social
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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences @biosstation.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Scientists from all 7 continents gathered at BIOS for a workshop on FAIR data practices in ship-based marine ecological time series. Hosted by IOCCP & supported by NSF’s EarthCube to make ocean data more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Reusable—empowering research, education & policy. #METS
METS group photoBATS tech group photo
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Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Check our paper by @nicolecoots.bsky.social, where she delved into the photosynthetic symbionts on Polycystine #Rhizaria. Nicole came to @biosstation.bsky.social after having to drastically change her dissertation due to COVID, So proud of you, Nicole, keep going! academic.oup.com/plankt/artic...
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Polycystine radiolarians associate with diverse phytoplankton
Abstract. Radiolarians are marine protists with a global distribution. Epipelagic radiolarians host photosynthetic endosymbionts, but the identity and spec
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warren-lab.bsky.social @warren-lab.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
And we are off on leg 1 of the VAMPIRE - BATS cruise in Bermuda w the team from @biosstation.bsky.social , @urigso.bsky.social , and @stonybrooku.bsky.social Despite its name, the VAMPIRE instrument works both day and night.
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