Halloween day, and into the dark forbidding ocean depths the MLSS drop camera descended. It was searching for the sponge bioherms at Kelvin Grove triple seamount. Oceanographic biologist Lena Clayton and MLSS director Glen Dennison hosted the UBC environmental sciences (ENVR 400) student team on an expedition to study glass sponge. The students spent over…
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Lost Reef Bioherm temperature update
The dive team of Scott Meixner, Julian Goss, Kim Ansell and Cam Jackson, recovered and reinstalled the Lost Reef bioherm temperature logger. The underwater visibility was approaching 45 feet and ocean current were low making for good diving conditions. The maximum depths of the divers was about 110 feet, with above average nature lighting conditions…