expeditions - Twilight Zone

Field Notes: NOAA Ship Bigelow sets sail

By ehugus | August 4, 2022

Science personnel untangle the ropes that make up the MOCNESS tow net aboard the R/V Henry B. Bigelow. (Photo by…

Who goes there?

By Ken Kostel | August 7, 2019

As the Ocean Twilight Zone expedition on the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow off the US East Coast winds…

Entering the Ocean Twilight Zone with Heidi Sosik

By Kathryn Baltes | June 3, 2019

Heidi Sosik and Paul Caiger in a manned submersible.

It is hard to describe what it’s like to physically travel down to the twilight zone. In addition to extraordinary…

The Ocean’s Twilight Zone May Be the Key to Feeding and Protecting Life on Earth

By Ken Kostel | May 2, 2019

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EXPORTS 2018 and the Ocean Twilight Zone

By Ken Kostel | May 1, 2019

From Voice of The Sea TV. EXPORTS is a unique scientific undertaking by NASA and the National Science Foundation to…

SEA Collaborating with WHOI to Study the Ocean’s Twilight Zone!

By Ken Kostel | April 25, 2019

This morning we sailed from the Bermuda exclusive economic zone (EEZ) into the “area beyond national jurisdiction” (aka the “high seas”) in deepwater (about 5,000 meters) on the Cramer.