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• Butterflies
• Celebrating Science
• Conserving Native Birds
• Harnessing the Sun
• Microorganisms
• Our Heritage Scientists
• Research Voyage to Antarctica
  • New Zealand IPY-CAML voyage to the Southern ocean
  • People on board
  • Week 1: The research vessel Tangaroa
  • Week 2: Life on board the Tangaroa
  • Week 3: Diversity of Ross Sea fish
  • Week 4: Benthos – life on the seabed
  • Week 5: Plankton in the Ross Sea
  • Week 6: Currents in the Southern Ocean
  • Week 7: Seamounts in the southern seas
  • Week 8: Food web of the Ross Sea
  • Data from the RV Tangaroa
  • Float my boat
  • A day in the life of a scientist
  • Hiding in plain sight
  • The benthic zone
  • How much life is in a litre of sea water?
  • Saline currents
  • Multibeam
  • Making a food web
  • Sci Media
    • Images
      • A snailfish species (Paraliparis spp.)
      • Adelie penguin colony
      • An Antarctic ice cod
      • An Antarctic silverfish
      • Another snailfish species
      • Antarctic phytoplankton
      • Antarctic silverfish
      • Antarctic toothfish
      • Antarctic zooplankton
      • B-15J
      • Benthic communities
      • Brenke epibenthic sled
      • Brian Samuels - second cook
      • Bridge control
      • Brittle stars and sea stars
      • Camera work station
      • Catch of the day
      • Collosal squid beak
      • Corals on a seamount
      • CPR silk with zooplankton
      • Creating order from chaos
      • Crinoid echinoderms
      • Crocodile icefish
      • Crocodile icefish after being prepared
      • Crocodile icefish before being prepared
      • CTD sampling
      • Deep sea trawler
      • Deploying the DTIS camera
      • Deploying the multicorer
      • Deployment of the CPR
      • Dr Els Maas sampling sediments
      • DTIS and CTD
      • Echo-sounder monitors
      • Engine room
      • Eulimid parasite
      • Evidence of higher current speed
      • Fire fighting training
      • Fisheries acoustic data
      • Forty knot wind
      • Getting dinner in the mess
      • Glass sponges
      • Global distribution of large seamounts
      • Going into pack ice
      • Hauling the midwater trawl
      • Iceberg floating in the sea
      • Iceberg Graveyard
      • Iceberg scars on the seafloor
      • Incubation experiment
      • Jenny Vissor - doctor
      • Kim Ashby - chief cook
      • King crab on a mission
      • Large Antarctic toothfish
      • Launching MOCNESS
      • Laying rubber matting
      • Lisa Bryant filtering water samples
      • Marine bacteria on an agar plate
      • Max Quinn, filmmaker
      • Mountains under the sea
      • Multibeam map of the flanks of a seamount
      • Multibeaming the seafloor
      • Nets on deck
      • Pair of large blue whales
      • Pelorus
      • Penguins on the ice
      • Phytoplankton concentrations in the Ross Sea
      • Phytoplankton on ice
      • Predicted circulation patterns
      • Predicted location of floats
      • Repairing nets
      • Ripple effect
      • RV Tangaroa
      • RV Tangaroa going through Pancake Ice
      • RV Tangaroa in the Ross Sea
      • Sadie Mills with a sea cucumber
      • Sampling seamounts
      • Sea cucumbers
      • Sea stars and limpets
      • Sea urchin eating a crinoid
      • Sediment incubation cores
      • Silverfish on the echosounder
      • Southern Ocean fronts
      • Straight and curved scars
      • Tanaid parasite
      • Tangaroa cabin
      • Tangaroa engine room
      • The Bair Hugger
      • The benthic team
      • The deckcrew
      • The doctor and film crew
      • The fish team
      • The galley team
      • The glacial squid
      • The icefish species, Cryodraco myersi
      • The IT and multibeam team
      • The officers
      • The pelagic team
      • The Tangaroa engineers
      • Toothfish longline
      • View from bridge control
      • Whitson’s grenadier
      • Work station on the RV Tangaroa
      • Zooplankton caught in the MOCNESS
    • Video
• Resource Management
• Strange Liquids