Search | Smithsonian Ocean

Showing results for "ARMS reef monitoring"

The Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure was developed to help scientists study coral reef diversity and have now been adopted broadly to study diversity around the world.

Photo

Reef Monitoring Structure

Researchers use Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) like this one to study...

DROP researchers successfully deploy a deep-sea ARMS at 396 feet using their submersible.

Photo

Deploying ARMS in the Deep Reef

Deploying ARMS (Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures) is tricky in the deep sea,...

Scientists process ARMS

Photo

Processing ARMS

Scientists processing ARMS (Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures), small...

Submarine pilot Bruce Brandt secures ARMS to the outside of the submersible Curasub so it can deploy ARMS on the seafloor.

Photo

ARMS Deployment from a Submarine

Submarine pilot Bruce Brandt secures ARMS (Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures)...

A plate from an Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (ARMS) placed in waters off of Florida.

Photo

ARMS Plate From Florida

A plate from an Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (ARMS) placed in waters off of...

An isopod retrieved from an Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (or ARMS) off the coast of Florida.

Photo

Isopod From Florida ARMS

An isopod retrieved from an Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (or ARMS) off the...

A "reef hotel" made of PVS layers on the seafloor.

Photo

Placing ARMS in the Red Sea

Nancy Knowlton, Smithsonian's Sant Chair for Marine Science, puts up an Autonomous...

Two ARMS sit on the ocean floor.

Photo

Picture of ARMS in Papua New Guinea

In order to study the reefs in Papua New Guinea, scientists use devices known as...

An ARMS covered in growth after being underwater for a specified period of time.

Photo

ARMS Covered in Growth

While the ARMS are deployed on the reef, organisms of all sorts colonize the...

An Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (AMRS) placed on a reef in Bali.

Photo

Biodiversity in Bali

Researchers use Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) like this one in Bali...

A view through a microscope of animals collected on an ARMS.

Photo

ARMS Sample Before Cleaning

Shallow water coral reefs straddle the equator worldwide.

Photo

Global Distribution of Shallow Coral Reef Ecosystems

Shallow water coral reefs straddle the equator worldwide. The shallow coral reefs...