Photo album:
Coral Dive Highlights July 3, 2013
This dive album includes the highlights of the July 3, 2013 dives. Hercules and Argus dove on two areas in order to collect some coral samples, water samples, and sediment samples. Some imaging was also done. One of the areas that we looked at is called Roberts Reef. The diversity of corals, anemones, and other organisms was amazing.
Expedition
Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG)
The ECOGIG expedition is part of a larger research program focused on examining the ecosystem-level response to oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico. This research group, the ECOGIG Consortium, is made up of scientists from a wide variety of disciplines studying current flow, ocean chemistry, microbial activity, deep-sea coral communities, and everything in between.
