Predicting the Arrival of the Portuguese Man o' War

November 04, 2025

Portuguese man o war

Scientists are studying how winds, currents, and climate change influence the drift of the Portuguese man o' war in an effort to forecast its seasonal movements


Representatives from ASU BIOS Travel to NASA

June 17, 2025

PACE science team group photo

Field researchers share insights at annual PACE meeting, strengthening global efforts to monitor ocean health and climate change


Exploring New Depths: How a Mesopelagic Profiler is Redefining Ocean Exploration

November 25, 2024

vampire deployment

Collaborative efforts send profiler to work in the mesopelagic zones of the Atlantic Ocean


Plankton in Our Midst: The Unseen Citizens of the Sea and Our Breathing Planet

November 21, 2024

plankton art exhibit

The exhibit explores the exquisite beauty of plankton and its crucial role not only in ocean ecosystems, but in how ocean health is critical to our survival and elemental to all life on our planet.


New Collaborative Rhizaria Research Project Underway

December 12, 2023

A diverse and abundant group of single-celled marine organisms, Rhizaria are known to affect carbon and other chemical cycles of the world’s oceans, but specifics are lacking. Research has been hampered by difficulties sampling, culturing and preserving many types of this protist super-group, and they have been underrepresented in models of global geochemical cycling as a result. Researchers and partners from two U.S. universities are seeking to change that narrative through a new three-year National Science Foundation-funded study.


Ground Truthing for NASA – ASU BIOS Selected to Validate Satellite Measurements of Plankton and Ocean Illuminance

February 29, 2024

Typically associated with the study of Earth’s upper atmosphere and beyond, satellites deployed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) also augment our understanding of Earth’s ecosystems, including critical information about the ocean such as locations of algal blooms and levels of marine photosynthesis.


Collaboration To Reduce Lionfish Population

March 14, 2018

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Probing the submerged caves of Bermuda with Trident

January 30, 2020

Conservation research in submarine caves is among the clearest and most compelling use-cases for a small observation-class ROV like Trident, which is why, last week, we delivered the very first ROV for Good Sofar Ocean Trident to Dr. Leocadio Blanco-Bercial at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences to study the hidden biodiversity in Bermuda’s Anchialine Caves.


Robot Triton to explore underwater caves

February 19, 2020

A robot submarine is to be deployed in a bid to study microscopic organisms in the island’s underwater caves.


Understanding the Movement Patterns of Free-swimming Marine Snails

September 17, 2020

A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science is changing the way that biological oceanographers view the swimming and sinking behaviors of open ocean, or pelagic, snails. Pteropods and heteropods are small marine snails, most measuring on the order of millimeters to centimeters, that are found throughout the world’s ocean from the surface to depths of 3000 feet (1000 meters). Although small in size, these organisms play a vital role in the ocean’s food web and biogeochemical cycles, as well as the global carbon cycle.


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