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Pamlico Canyon

USGS Role in DEEP SEARCH: Deep Sea Exploration to Advance Research on Coral, Canyon, and Cold-seep Habitats

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Food-web dynamics and isotopic niches in deep-sea communities residing in a submarine canyon and on the adjacent open slopes

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Submarine canyons influence macrofaunal diversity and density patterns in the deep-sea benthos

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ROV Jason on ship

Deep Sea Exploration and Research of Coral/Canyon/Cold seep Habitats

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Food-web dynamics and isotopic niches in deep-sea communities residing in a submarine canyon and on the adjacent open slopes

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DEEP SEARCH: Deep sea exploration to advance research on coral/canyon/cold seep habitats

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Baltimore Canyon, Outer continental Shelf

USGS DISCOVRE: Benthic Ecology, Trophodynamics, Ecosystem Connectivity of Mid-Atlantic Deepwater Hard Bottom Habitats with Emphasis on Canyon and Coral Communities

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Bacterial community diversity of the deep-sea octocoral Paramuricea placomus

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Photograph of SuBastian’s manipulator jaw stabilizes GEOMAR’s glowing bubble box

Deep Sea Exploration, Mapping, and Characterization

Presentations and Events

PubTalk 6/2010 — Monterey Canyon - Superhighway to the Deep-Sea

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Deep search: Deep sea exploration to advance research on coral/canyon/cold seep habitats

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Geochemical analysis of authigenic carbonates and chemosynthetic mussels at Atlantic Margin seeps

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Enumeration of viruses and prokaryotes in deep-sea sediments and cold seeps of the Gulf of Mexico

Photography
Image: ROC Sampling Deep Sea Urchin

ROC Sampling Deep Sea Urchin

Illustrations
Graphic showing structure of the ocean floor from beach to deep sea with descriptions

USGS Ocean Research

Photography
Image: Deep Sea Crab on Mussels a Mile Below Atlantic Ocean

Deep Sea Crab on Mussels a Mile Below Atlantic Ocean

Illustrations
Graphic showing structure of the ocean floor from beach to deep sea

USGS Ocean Research

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Cold-water coral microbiomes (Paramuricea placomus) from Baltimore Canyon: raw and processed data

Center News
bathymetry data of the New England Seamounts

USGS Leadership Participates in Virtual NOMEC Conversation Hosted by the UN Decade on the Ocean

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Coral-associated bacterial diversity is conserved across two deep-sea Anthothela species

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Seasonal variability in particulate matter source and composition to the depositional zone of Baltimore Canyon, U.S. Mid-Atlantic Bight

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Geomorphic characterization of four shelf-sourced submarine canyons along the U.S. Mid-Atlantic continental margin

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Selective transport of palynomorphs in marine turbiditic deposits: An example from the Ascension-Monterey Canyon system offshore central California

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Neural net detection of seismic features related to gas hydrates and free gas accumulations on the northern U.S. Atlantic margin

Center News
Photograph of Yellow crinoids, several species of sponges, and an Iridigorgia magnaspiralis coral attached to ferromanganese enc

Exploring the Unknown in the Deep North Atlantic Ocean

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Assessment of canyon wall failure process from multibeam bathymetry and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) observations, U.S. Atlantic continental margin

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Sediment and organic carbon transport and deposition driven by internal tides along Monterey Canyon, offshore California

Data Release
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Cold-water Coral Microbiomes (Anthothela spp.) from Baltimore and Norfolk Canyons: Raw and Processed Data

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Map of offshore survey sites from Virginia to Georgia

Areas to be surveyed on first Deep SEARCH research cruise

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Late-stage development of the Bryant Canyon turbidite pathway on the Louisiana continental slope