Coral reefs and other benthic marine ecosystems play a very important role in the biogeochemical cycles of our oceans. However, laboratory based study of these environments ranges from being difficult to actually impossible. In order to look at the microscopic-scale processes that occur in the benthic environment a team of scientists developed the Benthic Underwater Microscope (BUM). The device, w ...[Read More]
Coffee break biogeosciences–in situ sub-millimeter scale resolution imaging of benthic environments
The BUM in action in Maui (Jaffe Lab for Underwater Imaging, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego)