Research
Field Notes: Catching Light
Research Technician Fredrick Marin attaches a highly-sensitive radiometer to Mesobot. Credit: Jennifer Berglund Since Mesobot arrived in Bermuda, it’s been…
Read MoreField Notes: Testing Mesobot in Seawater
Dispatches from Bermuda By Tuesday, March 10, OTZ engineers had Mesobot working properly on land, which meant it was time…
Read MoreField Notes: A Frustrating Wait
Dispatches from Bermuda The OTZ engineering team—all of whom spent two weeks in quarantine in Bermuda—has been working tirelessly to…
Read MoreSpotlight: Emma Cotter
WHOI engineer Emma Cotter with the Adaptable Monitoring Package, an instrumentation platform developed at the University of Washington for environmental…
Read MoreTwilight Zone Observation Network Funded
A new observation network will give scientists a comprehensive view of the twilight zone, or mesopelagic. It will use several…
Read MoreUpdate: OTZ Biomass
What is biomass, and why is it so important for understanding the ocean twilight zone? In order to fully understand…
Read MoreSpotlight: Andone Lavery
Andone Lavery ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Andone Lavery got her start studying condensed matter physics—which she admits is an unusual…
Read MoreWhale Sharks Forage in the OTZ
New data suggests that whale sharks, like blue sharks and white sharks, dive thousands of feet down into the twilight zone to feed.
Read MoreUpdate: OTZ Food Webs
One of the key ways our team is working to understand the ocean twilight zone is by studying its complex food webs.
Read MoreFishing in the Twilight Zone: Illuminating governance challenges at the next fisheries frontier
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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