Schmidt Ocean

The world’s oceans understood through technological advancement, intelligent observation, and open sharing of information.

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Ayoung Kim is a renowned multimedia artist and visual storyteller who joined the multidisciplinary #DesigningTheFuture3 science team as a member of our Artist-at-Sea program; she was the 70th artist since the program’s inception in 2015. https://t.co/vIJeZzDEL2

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Our latest expedition video from the #Doldrums expedition, led by Dr. Aaron Micallef, of @MBARI_News, is live. Learn about finding fluids in the Ocean!

https://t.co/Ddrx2NBeNg

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Deep-sea octopus fr genus Cirrothauma, filmed 2,923 m beneath the Ocean’s surface during the #Doldrums expedition.

For #WorldOceanDay we paired this footage with a Mary Oliver poem, as part of our #PoetryInOcean series. Read the full caption here: https://t.co/LJToTlVov8

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Join us for a Schmidt Ocean Institute Back Ashore discussion, where we hear from scientists following expeditions on R/V Falkor and Falkor (too) to learn where the science has taken them. Register here:
https://t.co/Eq23FBg5C5

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A moment of discovery! It was a nearly 20-hour dive that the science team will never forget — discovering the first vents in the little-explored #Doldrums Megatransform & Fracture Zone. (Led by Aaron Micallef of @MBARI_News ) Read more: https://t.co/anl8aD3IyJ

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Join us for a Schmidt Ocean Institute Back Ashore discussion, where we hear from scientists following expeditions on R/V Falkor and Falkor (too) to learn where the science has taken them. Register here:
https://t.co/Eq23FBg5C5

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Join us for a Schmidt Ocean Institute Back Ashore discussion, where we hear from scientists following expeditions on R/V Falkor and Falkor (too) to learn where the science has taken them. Register here:
https://t.co/Eq23FBg5C5

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Poetry in Ocean: Swimming ctenophore at 703 m

...Sou bicho, sou planta, (I am animal, I am plant,)
Sou o que a terra quiser… (I am whatever the earth wants…)

Excerpt from “Anunciação" (Annunciation) by Adélia Prado (1976).

#Designingthefuture3

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Les Explorations de Monaco is issuing a call for proposals as part of the Missions Méditerranée’s Morocco mission, which will take place in the spring of 2027. Full information and application:
https://t.co/6qgjGHhJya

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https://t.co/85GzaXBFfn
Executive Director of @schmidtOcean Dr. Jyotika Virmani will be on the panel entitled:
The Next Frontiers In Deep Ocean Science: What Will We Discover and How Will We Do It Together?
Thurs, 7 May, 2026 13:55 - 14:55 PM EDT

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https://t.co/85GzaXBFfn
Executive Director of @schmidtOcean Dr. Jyotika Virmani will be on the panel entitled:
The Next Frontiers In Deep Ocean Science: What Will We Discover and How Will We Do It Together?
Thurs, 7 May, 2026 13:55 - 14:55 PM EDT

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What do shrimp see? “These guys have completely different eye designs,” according to Dr. Jan Hemmi, a visual neurobiologist. Their large eye size tells Dr. Hemmi and his colleagues that eyes are pretty important to these animals. #designingthefuture3

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Our #DesigningTheFuture2 expedition video is live: Most life on Earth lives in a place we can’t see, a place we can’t reach easily, and that we still barely understand. To explore it, we need entirely new ways of seeing.

https://t.co/SICgURo5wZ

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Haliphron atlanticus with a jelly in her belly! This large lady is a pelagic octopus, spending her entire life in the open ocean, never touching shore or seafloor. Read more via the link.
#designingthefuture3 800 meters

https://t.co/wKgzYfBYFL

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l“...We want your robust solitude,
a loneliness in all directions,
a human absence that opposes the petty buzzing of the world,
and makes the whole time, free from the struggles of each day…”
Fr the “Absolute Sea” by Cecília Meireles
#designingthefuture3 594 m

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The space-age instrument on the left side of the video frame is DeepPIV, for Deep particle image velocimetry; it was developed by Dr. Kakani Katija
& team in the Bioinspiration Lab at @MBARI_News
— read more in the YouTube caption! https://t.co/NJfwaITr5z

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Ctenophore, commonly known as Venus girdle, during a dive with ROV SuBastian, around 200m. This is the largest known ctenophore, resembling a twirling, transparent ribbon that gently glides through the water. #designingthefuture3

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“…Then let me drift along the Bay of Time,
Till my last sun shall set in glowing light;
Let me cast anchor where no shadows fall,
Forever moored within Heaven's harbor bright…”

Fr “Drifting” by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, 1899. Footage fr 2021, #DesigningtheFuture2.

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Analog astronaut and #OBVI #subsea Artist-at-Sea Richelle Ellis works at the intersection of sea and space, exploring how extreme environments reshape perception and deepen our relationship to Earth.
https://t.co/agg6c9ugej

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A so-fish-ticated catshark, of the freckled variety!
Scyliorhinus haeckelii are common fr Bahia Brazil to northern Argentina. Freckled catshark live along the continental shelf as deep as 400 m. Filmed at 202 m, offshore of Uruguay and the Rio del Plata during #AsgardArchaea.