Dr Thom
@ThomLinley
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Researching #deepsea #fish. Co-host of @DeepSeaPod. #TeamFish @Te_Papa. #tech and #SciComm. Views are my own. #dyslexic, he/him
Wellington City, New Zealand
Joined December 2011
#ProjectESCA lives! @ALCESonline and I developed this novel light lure with funding from @PureOceanFund. It uses a quiet frame, illumination invisible to the animals, a 360-degree camera, and simulated bioluminescence to attract shy deepsea animals.
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More wonders from #AntarcticClimateConnections
#polychaete #bristleworm and #pycnogonid #seaspider Brought up in immaculate condition.
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RT @ALCESonline: Close Inkounter! #ProjectESCA gets its next squiddy visitor, a glacial squid (P. glacialis) around 800m. It gifts us a few…
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RT @ALCESonline: With our new deep-sea low-light camera on #ProjectESCA, we can see #bioluminescence as well as the animals illuminated by…
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RT @SchmidtOcean: Travel with us! This time-lapse video captures the breathtaking beauty observed during the #AntarcticClimateConnections e…
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A #bioluminescent #psudomorph captured by #ProjectESCA. Many animals use light to distract a predator. Some bind it in mucose to give it a shape. Like throwing your shadow so you can get away. #antarcticclimateconnections
@ALCESonline
@Te_Papa
@SchmidtOcean
@PureOceanFund
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I hope our lure attracts squi... THUNK! #ProjectESCA works! Squid like the lure and a 360 camera means nowhere to hide. Likely a glacial or clubhook #squid, this is 200m in #Antarctica
#AntarcticClimateConnections
@ALCESonline
@SchmidtOcean
@Te_Papa
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RT @DeepSeaPod: ☕️COFFEE WITH ANDREW☕️ This month, we're covering the ins and outs of naming species. Should they be named after people? A…
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@jethroreading32 @SunfishOZNZ @Te_Papa Very different motivation! The brain was tiny. We weren't able to find the otoliths, despite a lot of looking. You might be onto something with the diet smell. Especially in a specimen that had been dead some time!
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A stampede of #seals while we're relaxing in the mess. #Antarctica
#AntarcticClimateConnections
@SchmidtOcean
@Te_Papa
@PureOceanFund
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#bioluminescent #fireworks
#ProjectESCA is very light-sensitive, even detecting flashes from tiny organisms! Something crashes, letting out a bio-firework in surprise! #AntarcticClimateConnections
#Challenger150
@ALCESonline
@schmidtocean
@pureoceanfund
@Te_Papa
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I am already writing a sitcom about these two. Heartwarming unlikely friendship kinda thing. #Antarctica #EmperorPenguin #penguin
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RT @SchmidtOcean: Half the fun? The waters of the Bellingshausen Sea in Antarctica have not been well mapped - it is not easy to get there,…
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Immaculate specimens arrive on deck. The #crinoid is a filter feeding starfish relative. #AntarcticClimateConnections is sampling seabed areas that have no associated data; biological, geological, oceanographic, mapping... nada! @SchmidtOcean @Te_Papa @PureOceanFund
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