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This footage is from JASON, an underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicle) used to examine the sea floor at depths where humans cannot reach.
On view at the At Sea Gallery in the Birch Aquarium!
Edited by Angela Colabella.
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HEY! EVERYONE! THIS! HAPPENED!
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After 10 years of cracking, an iceberg roughly the size of Delaware has split off from Antarctica. This could be lead to rising sea levels.
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TECHNICOLOR DNA


Scientists just stored an entire film clip in DNA
In 1878, British photographer Eadweard Muybridge created the first motion picture of a trotting horse by setting up 12 cameras to capture photos in succession.
Muybridge’s stop-motion technique is considered to be an early form of animation that later gave birth to the motion-picture industry.
Now, the clip of the galloping thoroughbred mare, named Annie G., is making history once again after Harvard Medical School researchers encoded it into the DNA of a living cell. Read more (7/13/17)
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Jason Cruise on the R/V Sally Ride
by Wei Di
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Narrow Channel: An Acoustic Rendering
A unique sonic event!
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360 in Antarctica! This is a frame grab of the camp site where the scientists stay at.
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coloring inspiration
these images are from a book titled Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes by Louis Renard, published in 1754.
source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/images-from-the-earliest-known-colour-book-on-fish-1754/





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swimming with sharks , a 360 shot in the elasmo beach tank
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dinner on the #rv #sallyride is always at 5 o’clock, and made with love.
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lovely #tocantechorus performing in front of the #kelptank at #springfest !
bravo !
fun note: these synthesizers were made by the performers a day before the event - led by Peter Blasser.
#springfest#ucsd#experimental#music#for the fishes#birch#aquarium#performance#event#synthesizer#sandiego
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aquar.dio
our original sound-radio-pod CAST series is coming soon! stay tuned :)
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bioluminescent shrimp in action!
#Gnathophausia#shrimp#bioluminescence#light#space#underwater#ocean#pacific#birch#scripps#aquarium#sandiego
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[ [tank 22] ]
opening may 3rd 2017 !
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