Field work has taken us to continental shelf ecosystems throughout the United States and Mexico.

DolLAYER team

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Here are some of the more impressive images from the In Situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System and modular Deep-focus Plankton Imager (both are shadowgraph systems). These are massive datasets, and many of these images are some of the first depictions of these beautiful animals in there natural environment. We are discovering new things within the images all the time!

Marine snow aggregate

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Marine snow aggregates in the northern Gulf of Mexico are important for exporting carbon vertically