Photo of the Week

We are excited to bring back our Photo of the Week section so stay tuned for new content coming soon! In the meantime, take a look at these fantastic pictures from our teachers.

Man, oh man-o-war! This Portuguese man-o-war is often called a jellyfish, but it’s actually a siphonophore, made of up of a group of colonial organisms.

April 17, 2017
This Portugeuse man-o-war is a group of colonial organisms called a siphonophore. It gets its name from its resemblance to an 18th century warship under sail.

Photo: Emily Sprowls

The last few days of the cruise brought in a lot of sharks, fish and data... In total between both shifts we set 53 stations and caught 679 vertebrate specimens (not counting the invertebrates: sea stars, sea cucumbers and all those isopods)! We caught some amazing creatures, and some just floated or flew by for a visit like jellyfish and migrant birds.
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