Marine Microverse Institute

10/17/2025

12/15/2023

*Microverse SciFriday link to Ocean bacteria 'snow globe'
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ocean-bacteria-reveal-an-unexpected-multicellular-form-20221102/

10/25/2023

The Tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) is native to New Zealand. It has a distinctive white tuft on its neck.

09/15/2023

A ‘golden orb’ like specimen discovered in Gulf of Alaska.

On August 30, 2023, while using remotely operated vehicles to dive on a small seamount in the Gulf of Alaska, mission personnel aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer came across a confounding sight. While gliding over a rocky outcrop at a depth of about 3,300 meters (2 miles), they found what one of the...

08/23/2023

Mobile lab set up at beach site for water quality testing.

07/02/2023

Eudyptula minor world’s smallest blue penguin in New Zealand coming in to molt for new feathers.

06/07/2023

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Building marine conservation and biotechnology applications to serve the blue economy Professional Biodiversity Research

05/20/2023

What % is safe to drink?

05/06/2023

Mt Cook, New Zealand is surrounded by several proglacial lakes that are a source for a variety of microbes.

Glacier ecosystems are teeming with life on, beneath, and to a lesser degree, within their icy masses. This conclusion largely stems from polar research, with less attention paid to mountain glaciers...

04/26/2023

04/24/2023

Sediment sampling. Offshore South Island, New Zealand.