Photo album:
Deepwater Coral Invertebrates
These photos were taken on June 28, 2013 in the Gulf of Mexico. The team was exploring an area of the seafloor at approximately 1,000 meters depth. The coral communities in this exact location had never been imaged before. This album highlights the invertebrates discovered while exploring the coral reef habitat.
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.
