Image Archive

As with the junction box at Oregon Shelf (80 m), the bioacoustic sonar platform is covered with anemones and fish. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19.

Oregon Shelf hydrophone recovery. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Severe biofouling of the Oregon Shelf digital still camera. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Tunicates (aka sea squirts) covering the lamp of the Oregon Shelf digital still camera. Tunicates are chordates that start life as a swimming, fish-like animal and then settle on a surface and become sessile (attached) organisms that filter food out of the water flowing by. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

A close-up of the barnacles, anemones, and tunicates covering every exposed surface of the Oregon Shelf digital still camera. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

A rear view of the anemones, barnacles, and tunicates covering the Oregon Shelf digital camera after a one year deployment. A lingcod fish is hanging out beneath the tripod, and a large number of ctenophores (comb jellies) were also seen at the site. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

The Oregon Shelf digital still camera, covered in barnacles, anemones, and tunicates (sea squirts), and sheltering a large lingcod, following a one-year deployment. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19