O’Hara hopes that the discovery of this ancient lineage of brittle star will excite the public and academic community enough to justify funding for further taxonomic deep sea research. He’s ...

The islands of Fiji and Vanuatu rise from the tropical waters of the South Pacific in one of the most tectonically active and geologically complex regions of the world. A new study of volcanism in ...

This part of the back cover of the March 2010 issue of the journal Oceanograhy depicts seven seamounts formed by the Louisville hotspot in the South Pacific that were surveyed during the AMAT02 ...

Oceanography, Vol. 23, No. 1, Special Issue on Mountains in the Sea (MARCH 2010), pp. 190-199 (10 pages) ABSTRACT Extractive processes such as fishing and mining are degrading seamount ecosystems ...

Oceanography, Vol. 23, No. 1, Special Issue on Mountains in the Sea (MARCH 2010), pp. 90-103 (14 pages) ABSTRACT Seamounts attract the attention of physical oceanographers for a variety of reasons: ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Researchers have discovered a pair of seamounts on the ocean floor that serve as inflow and outflow points for a vast plumbing system that circulates water through the seafloor. The ...

A reef parrotfish on Vitoria Seamount. (Photo by Hudson Pinheiro © California Academy of Sciences) The Trindade and Martin Vaz Archipelago is the most eastward point ...

Former President Trump’s ill-informed actions put the continental United States’ only marine national monument at risk; President Biden must restore full protections. Decades of evidence proves that ...