- @Sea Crossing the Florida Straits: A Passage to Deep Sea Discoveries
 - Two-week expedition aboard the R/V Seward Johnson to explore the Straits of Florida in search of organisms that produce chemicals with the potential to cure diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's. - @Sea Operation Deep Scope: Exploring Gulf of Mexico Deep-Sea Habitats
- 2004 mission to study the fantastic life forms of four alien landscapes in the Gulf of Mexico up to 3,000 feet deep.
- Aliens of the Deep@
- Atlas of Megafauna from the DISCOL-Area, Tropical Southeastern Pacific Ocean
- Designed to demonstrate to marine biologists the diversity of the megafauna of the Peru Basin (Southeast Pacific Ocean).
- Benthic Foraminifers
- Briefly addresses their importance to earth science research and list current USGS projects utilizing them.
- CenSeam: A Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts
- Census of Marine Life project studying undersea mountains and the life that thrives on them. Learn about the new species they have discovered.
- Census of Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life (CeDAMar)
- Working to document actual species diversity of abyssal plains as a basis for global change research.
- Deep Sea News
- Blog dedicated to the largest environment on earth, the deep ocean beyond the continental shelf.
- Deep-Sea Animals (and Bacteria)
- Pictures of bathyal and abyssal fishes, echinoderms, worms, molluscs, and arthropods.
- DeepseaConservation.org
- Home of the Deep-sea Conservation for the UK (DC-UK) project. Learn about the amazing diversity of life -- from dense sponge belts, cold-water coral reefs to fields of weird single-celled organisms called xenophyophores -- of the U.K.'s deep-sea waters.
- deepseascape.org
- Explore the U.K.'s deep-sea landscape with this image and video library.
- Explore the Abyss
- View the photo gallery dedicated to deep-sea and oceanic life. Find images of hydrothermal vent animals, deep-sea fish, invertebrates, and plankton, octopus and squid, bioluminescence in the abyss, open ocean animals, and whales and dolphins.
- Home on the Ridge: Life on the N.E. Pacific Hydrothermal Vents
- Learn about the geologic processes that create these deep sea environments, the chimneys, the tubeworm community, and other life forms that thrive in the dark, toxic waters.
- Hot Vents
- Introduction to the fantastic assemblage of animals that are associated with the deep sea hot springs.
- Life on the Edge: Exploring Deep Ocean Habitats (2)
- Official project sites dedicated to the ongoing study that aims to document and understand the habitats and the species that exists along the edge of the continental shelf and the deeper continental slope.
- Life Without Light
- Pictures and information about the giant tubeworms, mussels, and clams living off of the energy-rich fluids seeping out of the ocean bottom.
- Lophelia.org
- Learn about the ancient, cold-water coral ecosystems of the deep ocean. View images, movies, case studies, and an interactive dive.
- MarineBio.org: The Deep Sea
- Learn about the some of the animals that live in the most extensive habitat on the planet, the permanently cold, dark waters at the bottom of the ocean.
- MBARI Benthic Biology and Ecology
- Primarily interested in factors that regulate the abundance and distribution of benthic communities.
- Microbial Wonders of the Deep
- A microbiological examination of five bacterial evolutionary adaptations to life in deep sea environments.
- Monsters of the Deep
- Introduction to the creatures that dwell in the deep ocean. Learn about their strange adaptations to the dark and cold.
- Monterey Bay Aquarium: Deep Sea Living Species List
- Find profiles of the fish, squids, clams, lobsters, jellies, and anemone that make their home in deep ocean waters and on sea floors.
- National Geographic Explorer: Sea Monsters Game
- Identify some of the unusual animals that make there home in the dark, mysterious places thousands of feet below the ocean surface.
- Nature: Dive To The Abyss
- Explores the ocean deep in Monterey Bay Canyon off the California coast; the Cayman Wall at Grand Cayman in the Caribbean; and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
- New Squat Lobster Family of Galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) From the Hydrothermal Vents of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
(PDF) - Learn about the new genus and new species collected in hydrothermal vents of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, south of Easter Island, that is commonly referred to as the yeti crab or furry lobster.
- NOAA Ocean Explorer: Operation Deep Scope 2004
- Exploring the deep in new ways in order to discover deep-sea creatures and learn more about how they have adapted to life in the ocean darkness.
- www.DrBluhm.de
- Lists the marine zoologist's publications and the DISCOL Atlas of Megafauna.
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