Amanda Feuerstein
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One of the most common inhabitants of the sargassum community, the shrimp Latreutes fucorum (Hippolytidae) is perfectly colored to...
Winner of the ‘best camoflauge’ contest, the nudibranch Scyllaea pelagica (Scyllaeidae) is usually betrayed only by its motion. Along it’s back...
Another common species of sargassum shrimp, Leander tenuicornis (Palaemonidae), can be spotted by its long transparent claws or "chelae". Very similar...
Intense volcanic CO2 vents in Ili Ili Bua Bua, Normanby Island, Papua New Guinea where CO2 bubbles out of the reef making water acidic as we would expect to see in the future due to the burning of...
Near the intense volcanic CO2 vents bubbling from the cracks in the seafloor, the water is so acidic that it dissolves coral skeletons.
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Close to the volcanic CO2 seeps the vast diversity of corals that exists in less-acidic waters is replaced by a "monoculture" of boulder corals that are less fragile and better suited to life in acidic water...
Sargassum fluitans, a.k.a. “Gulfweed,” forms dense clumps up to the size of a beach ball that slowly rotate as they drift. The fronds are...
This snapping shrimp female (Synalpheus regalis) is the queen of her colony...
The acidic waters from CO2 seeps can dissolve shells and also make it harder for shells to grow in the first place.
For three weeks, the MV Chertan is home-base for the scientific team and will be transformed in a floating laboratory to study volcanic CO2 seeps.
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Far away from the volcanic CO2 seeps, the water is unaffected and a healthy coral reef flourishes with a diversity of coral species. Closer to the seeps where the water is acidic, the corals barely even grow....