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Posts by Ken Kostel

Fishing in the Twilight Zone: Illuminating governance challenges at the next fisheries frontier

By Ken Kostel | November 23, 2020

Scientists have known since the 1970s that the ocean’s vast twilight zone could contain huge quantities of fish. Technology now…

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How we explore the Ocean Twilight Zone: Emma Cotter on broadband acoustics

By Ken Kostel | November 6, 2020

WHOI post-doc Emma Cotter gave a virtual presentation recently to the Pacific Marine Energy Center describing how scientists like her…

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Specialized camera system gives unprecedented view of twilight zone

By Ken Kostel | September 1, 2020

  With still so much to learn about the planktonic creatures that support the marine food web, scientists with the…

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How Deep Does the Plastic Problem Go?

By Ken Kostel | August 27, 2020

Our friends at Scripps Institution of Oceanography took a close look at plastics in the twilight zone. A very close…

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That strawberry squid can’t be true (But it is)

By Ken Kostel | July 21, 2020
Strawberry Squid (Histioteuthis heteropsis)

Snopes

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Ultra-black skin helps deep-sea fishes avoid detection

By Ken Kostel | July 17, 2020
fangtooth

New York Times

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Environmental threats of seafloor mining to the Twilight Zone

By Ken Kostel | July 16, 2020
illustration of sea floor mining

PNAS

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Bringing Light to the Twilight Zone

By Ken Kostel | June 15, 2020
larvacean house

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

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FREE EVENT: Buttonwood Park Zoo offers virtual look at ‘Ocean Twilight Zone’

By Ken Kostel | April 30, 2020

Buttonwood Park Zoo

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Aria Finkelstein: crafting policy to manage the OTZ

By Ken Kostel | April 28, 2020
women on the bow of a sailboat

Aria Ritz Finkelstein is a PhD candidate in Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, and is currently a guest student…

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