We had a lot of amazing photos taken by our bloggers in 2022. Here are just a few of them. Want to see more? Check out our Field Fresh blog to see all of our bloggers’ great shots!
This fluorescent beauty is equipped with long, sharp teeth for crunching on prey with hard exteriors, such as crabs and ...
This cartoonish creature is the first example I've ever seen of a phyllosoma, which is the pelagic, larval stage of slip...
NOAA Fisheries and student researchers collect seawater samples and measure environmental conditions in Barnstable Bay, ...
Completing a day of field research with surfclams on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Scientific staff on the 2022 Atlantic sea scallop survey, leg 1. Left to Right: Charles Keith, Zachary Fyke, Rich Powell...
Lunar eclipse, May 15, 2022.
Wellesley College student Eve Butterworth draws seawater from a Niskin bottle for her oxygen measurement sample. Note th...
We collect seawater from Niskin bottles to our sampling bottles. From left to right: Socrates Loginidis, Chris Taylor, Y...
Yuan Liu checks vertical profiles of environmental parameters and chlorophyll a to decide eDNA sampling depths.
Catrina Nowakowski prepares to launch her buoy from the deck of the NOAA Ship Henry Bigelow.
Catrina Nowakowski (University of Rhode Island), left, and Eve Butterworth (Wellesley College) draw seawater samples fro...
Nick Metheny, a marine mammal and seabird observer, scours the water for his target species.
Pipefish were found in some of the catches (left). If you sort too fast in a messy catch (right), these little fish can ...
The waves were like glass during the night shift’s first sunrise.
Atlantic sea scallops collected during the 2022 survey show the variety in coloration for this species.
Science crew annotating HabCam pictures while sheltering from inclement weather.
The F/V Resolve returns to the dock after a successful day out on the water testing on-demand fishing gear deployments i...
EarthRanger dashboard display of deployments from gear made by different manufacturers viewed on a cell phone during on-...
A large Cosco cargo ship sitting in the water off the stern of the F/V E.S.S. Pursuit during the 2022 Atlantic clam surv...
A figure fashioned by deckhands from clay dredged up during the 2022 Atlantic clam survey.
Surfclams, Spisula solidissima.
The men of night watch! Left to right, Mike Bergman, Cullen Hauck, and Doug Brander show-off some surfclams.
The fish is a cunner and its mouth is open and a row of pointy teeth along the top and bottom jaw can be seen.
Torpedo ray caught in the early part of the fall study.
A profile perspective of a red fish with a large eye, pairs of leg-like appendages, and armor plate-like scales lying o...
Shortnose greeneye (top) and longnose greeneye (bottom).
Lost boat propeller lies at the bottom of the Gulf of Maine.
Golden offshore sunset.
On our last trip, field biologist Emma Fowler and I left Sesuit Harbor, Massachusetts, shrouded in thick fog.
Captain Eric was excited to see more Atlantic cod than in past years, including a few large individuals. He was also abl...
Scientist Angelia Miller holding a young Atlantic wolffish.
A pile of butterfish. Note the high lateral line that almost looks like a small ridge, not to be confused with the ligh...
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