Author Archives: Mary Edna

Deep Sea Diary: Day 3

By Mary Edna | Published: June 2, 2012
We are looking at the bottom for a place to collect specimens and the depth is 4931 meters. After a 2 hour nap my night shift begins. Ancient cold seep sites that we are seeing are about 150 miles from Barbados and exist in the boundary between the Atlantic Plate subducted below the Caribbean Plate […]
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Deep Sea Diary: Day 2

By Mary Edna | Published: June 1, 2012
We are out at sea on the Atlantis having left port at 9am and I cannot wait to share the edited photographs of this adventure, about 1,500 so far but that includes stop action which is a lot of frames. Woods Hole, NSF, Duke Marine Lab, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology and NC State are […]
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Deep Sea Diary: First day on the Atlantis

By Mary Edna | Published: May 31, 2012
Aboard the Atlantis docked in Bridgetown, Barbados I enter a world that is both familiar and extraordinary. Scientists seated at breakfast work with population dynamics and are from France and Sweden. They determine if the samples from the bottom of the ocean floor are an isolated non-cross populated species or if they arrived by current […]
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