ALT November calendar featuring a bright red king crab facing a dark orange crab on the sandy ocean floor with a flat rock topped with white fish eggs between them. The NOAA Ocean Exploration logo is in the lower left corner.

ALT A flyer advertising the webinar “Highlights from Nancy Foster 2022: Illuminating Deep Waters off Puerto Rico.” The flyer notes that the event will feature Andrea Quattrini, the expedition’s Chief Scientist and Curator of Corals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The flyer features several pictures of Dr. Quattrini on the expedition.

ALT Members of the science team prepare the coral elevator to deliver coral fragments to the seafloor for outplanting.

ALT Callogorgia coral fragments are outplanted on the seafloor near other Callogorgia corals at Ewing Bank

ALT Coral fragments are placed on the coral elevator, ready to be lowered to the seafloor for outplanting.

ALT A pelican stands outside a glass office door, waiting to be let in.

ALT Close up of pelican with monofilament line wrapped around its foot.

ALT Fish swimming just above the seafloor

ALT close up photo of octocoral Swiftia exserta

ALT Krill photo by Uwe Kils via Wikimedia Commons.