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Portland finds ICE Facility violated its Land Use Permite 25 Times in 10 months.
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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September 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Sea star eating an octocoral at 536 m #fieldwork #MDBC @echinoblog.bsky.social 🧪🦑
Full screen Closer Closeup
July 20, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Speckly sea cucumber, Sackett Bank, ~60 meters #fieldwork #MDBC 🧪🦑
Closeup of a white sea cucumber with brown speckles like freckles. An arrow crab is above the cuke on the left, with a crinoid behind him
July 25, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Some other photogenic cuties with IDs proving I’m a microbiologist: fish, anemone, scallop #fieldwork #MDBC 🧪🦑
Small pink fish with white polka dots Anemone with stripy legs Scallop
July 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Pretty red octocoral, possibly Thesea rubra at Sackett Bank #fieldwork #MDBC🧪🦑🪸
Red branching octocoral with white polyps
July 25, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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Reminder about today’s deep-sea coral livestream, 2pm central/3pm eastern #MDBC www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS3X...
Gulf Restoration Live! The Secret Lives of Deep Sea Corals
YouTube video by Inner Space Center
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September 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Moray eel, Sackett Bank, ~65 meters #fieldwork #MDBC 🦑🧪
A gold and brown patterned eel with a yellow eye faces the camera
July 25, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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Last dive of this expedition is completed! Final coral portrait, Muricea pendula at Sackett Bank #fieldwork #MDBC 🧪🦑
Large white branching octocoral
July 26, 2024 at 8:29 PM
etspencer.bsky.social
Check out our NEW landing page on the @marinesanctuary.bsky.social website sharing more about Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities (MDBC) restoration in the Gulf: marinesanctuary.org/mdbc/

Learn:
📚what are MDBC
🎉how the Foundation supports this work
🍎how to download free educator resources

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Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities (MDBC)
Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities (MDBC)
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November 25, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Not the best screen grab but just look at this beauty of a squid from 700m deep in the Gulf of Mexico! #fieldwork #MDBC 🧪🦑
Dark red squid against soft sediment background
July 17, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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Yellow crinoid arms wrapped around pink & white sponge tubes, with a fish tucked between the sponge tubes - Sackett Bank, ~70m #fieldwork #MDBC 🧪🦑
Yellow crinoid arms wrapped around pink & white sponge tubes, with a fish tucked between the sponge tubes
July 25, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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This large mesophotic octocoral (Muricea pendula) is supporting several basketstars #MDBC #fieldwork 🦑🧪🌊
Large white branching mesophotic octocoral near Bright Bank in Gulf of Mexico
September 3, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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Sea state this morning is “yes, please sample here” #fieldwork #MDBC 🦑🧪
Blue sky, white fluffy clouds, sapphire blue ocean with small wind ripples
July 16, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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Swiftia exserta at Sackett Bank at 67 meters #fieldwork #MDBC 🧪🦑
Orange branching octocoral
July 25, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Munida crab riding the ROVs manipulator arm like a mechanical bull at a country western bar #fieldwork #MDBC 🧪🦑
Munida crab riding the ROVs manipulator arm like a mechanical bull at a country western bar
July 19, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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View of the ship (M/V Pelican) from the ROV Beagle as we start our first dive! #MDBC #fieldwork 🦑🧪
View of ship from ROV back-facing camera
August 30, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Coralscape at 535 meters - Large black coral base visible in foreground, yellow Paramuricea, red Leiopathes , white Anthothela in the background #fieldwork #MDBC 🧪🦑
Large black coral base visible in foreground, yellow Paramuricea, red Leiopathes , white Anthothela in the background
July 19, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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Promising weather for todays dives! #MDBC #fieldwork 🌊🧪🦑
Blue sky and blue ocean viewed through a porthole
September 3, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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Sea star eating an octocoral at 536 m #fieldwork #MDBC @echinoblog 🧪🦑
Full screen Closer Close up
July 20, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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Sunny day ROV selfie! #MDBC #fieldwork 🌊🧪🦑
Blonde woman in sunglasses on upper deck of ship. ROV visible over her shoulder on lower deck
September 3, 2024 at 5:10 PM
etspencer.bsky.social
Learn more about the new exhibit featuring work by the Mesophotic and Deep Bethic Communities (MDBC) projects! And see it for yourself! www.msaquarium.org/p/researchan...
December 5, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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Cloudy sunrise #fieldwork #MDBC 🧪🦑
Peach horizon under periwinkle clouds, pale blue sky and dark blue ocean from side of ship
July 18, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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Another coralscape view with orange brisingid sea star on left, white anemones, a couple of basket stars, and purple plumy black coral on right #fieldwork #MDBC 🧪🦑
orange brisingid sea star on left, white anemones, a couple of basket stars, and purple plumy black coral on right
July 22, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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When I was little, I had a Peter Pan book and in it there was a picture of the cave where the lost boys lived, and on the cave wall was a little alcove with curtains where Tinkerbell slept. I think of that picture every time I am on a research ship #fieldwork #MDBC 🧪🦑
Top bunk in a ship’s cabin, with wrap-around privacy curtains
July 15, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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NOAA Fisheries posted a crab collected during one of the Mesophotic & Deep Benthic Communities expeditions in the Gulf. x.com/NOAAFisherie...

Folks are making art, memes, & more to honor him -- the people yearn for inverts!

Learn about the MDBC projects: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/ha... 🌊🧪🦑
January 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM