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Field Notes: Hunting an Isolume

By David Levin | March 18, 2021

Captain David Ullman preps Catapult for a 2:30am departure. (Photo: Jennifer Berglund) Today, the team set out well before sunrise,…

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Field Notes: A Tour of Mesobot’s Guts

By David Levin | March 10, 2021
Engineer Jordan Stanway troubleshoots a problem in one of Mesobot's motors.

Dispatches from Bermuda Getting Mesobot ready for a dip in the water is no easy feat.  Designed to follow a…

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Fieldwork Starts in Bermuda

By David Levin | March 1, 2021

OTZ scientists have arrived at Station B, a new research station in Bermuda meant for rapid ocean technology development, which…

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Twilight Zone Observation Network Funded

By David Levin | February 17, 2021

A new observation network will give scientists a comprehensive view of the twilight zone, or mesopelagic. It will use several…

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Update: OTZ Biomass

By David Levin | February 17, 2021

What is biomass, and why is it so important for understanding the ocean twilight zone? In order to fully understand…

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Recent Entries

  • eDNA Takes Center Stage April 17, 2023
  • OTZ Team’s Science Informs Groundbreaking UN Treaty April 17, 2023
  • Where the Weird Things Are April 11, 2023
  • Casting a (long) line to the twilight zone food web February 20, 2023
  • Spotlight: Zhaozhong Zhuang January 26, 2023

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