SERPENT Annual Report 2008

It's that time again! The brand-new SERPENT Annual Report for 2008 has just rolled off the virtual presses. Visit the website to get your copy now! You can also click on the image to read the E-Format Issuu version right now!

SERPENT at the Times Cheltenham Science Festival

Described as a "Mind-tingling feast of debate and entertainment", the Cheltenham Science Festival in the UK hosted the SERPENT project as part of the University of Southampton's "Oceans on Wheels" Roadshow. For three days at the beginning of June, SERPENT presented at the exciting and bustling Discovery Zone.

Patient queues of children (along with some adults!) were rewarded with an opportunity to pilot a deep sea ROV using the SERPENT ROVsim® simulator designed by Marine Simulation LLC™. SERPENT teams were able to discuss the project with adults and children alike who were amazed at the huge diversity of the creatures found in the deep ocean and fascinated by the research being undertaken by the SERPENT project.

SERPENT science makes the Economist.com!

The recent paper by Dr Daniel Jones and Mario Lebrato called "Mass deposition event of Pyrosoma atlanticum carcasses off Ivory Coast (West Africa)" which was recently featured in the prestigeous publication Limnology and Oceanography is the subject of an article in both the web and print editions of the Economist.

From the Economist article "IN 2006 Mario Lebrato and Daniel Jones of the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England, were using a remotely operated deep-sea vehicle to study the sea floor near an oil pipeline off Côte d’Ivoire. What they found surprised them. It was a thaliacean graveyard. And its discovery throws into question the received wisdom about one important aspect of climate change, namely how much carbon from the atmosphere ends up at the bottom of the sea."

Read the Economist article.

Read more on the National Oceanography site.

See a video of a live pyrosome.

Latest SERPENT mission online

Just updated the site with the latest mission by Dan to the Akpo field offshore Nigeria. You can check out the Mission Minisite from the Missions page.

Lots of nice images, like this ethereal one of peniagone.

Well hi everyone!

SERPENT has finally submerged itself into the blogosphere. Over the next few months we aim to start dusting off the furniture and setting up home so you can come back and relax while we show you what goes on in the deep dark oceans of the world.

See you soon!

This is the blog of the SERPENT project.

Collaborating closely with key players in the oil and gas industry, the "Scientific and Environmental ROV Partnership using Existing iNdustrial Technology" (SERPENT) project aims to make cutting-edge industrial ROV technology and data more accessible to the world's science community, share knowledge and progress deep-sea research.
The programme interacts with science and conservation groups globally to communicate the project to the public, increasing the awareness of our fragile marine resources.

SERPENT presents to IADC

12 May 2009 - SERPENT scientist Dr Andrew Gates today gave a presentation entitled "Effects of Drilling on Deep-Water Seabed Communities" to the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) at the 2009 IADC Environmental Conference & Exhibition at the Clarion Hotel in Stevanger, Norway.

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