The Daily Croissant - Filed under 'Ocean'

The Eagleman Stag and Deepstaria enigmatica {a cnidarian}
- 9 May 2012
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- Animation Creatures Film Shorts May 09 2012 Ocean Stop Motion insects
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"If you repeat the word 'fly' for long enough it sounds like you're saying 'life'. This is of no help to Peter. His answers lie in the brain of a beetle."

"The Eagleman Stag is the 2011 BAFTA award winning Royal College of Art thesis film of director / writer MIKEY PLEASE. It's mostly made out of some strange white stuff, found in the back of a stress cushion. Mikey worked with his brother BENEDICT PLEASE who composed the soundtrack and score, as well as the vocal talents of cult actor DAVID CANN who lends his voice here to Peter Eagleman."

via theeaglemanstag.com

Deepstaria enigmatica {a cnidarian}
The Secret Life of Plankton
- 12 Apr 2012
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- April 12 2012 Ecology Film Shorts Ocean Photomicrography Plankton
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"New videography techniques have opened up the oceans' microscopic ecosystem, revealing it to be both mesmerizingly beautiful and astoundingly complex. Marine biologist Tierney Thys has used footage from a pioneering project to create a film designed to ignite wonder and curiosity about this hidden world that underpins our own food chain."

via youtube.com
Perpetual Ocean
- 28 Mar 2012
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- Animation Currents March 28 2012 Ocean Visualization
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This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007.

To download this video or to watch it in full

via flickr.com
The Colorful Nudibranchia
- 3 Mar 2012
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- March 03 2012 Mollusks Natural History Nudibranchia Ocean
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"The bottom-dwelling, jelly-bodied nudibranch (NEW-dih-bronk) might seem an unlikely canvas for Mother Nature to express her wildest indulgences of color and form. But these shell-less mollusks, part of the sea slug family, bear some of the most fascinating shapes, sumptuous hues, and intricate patterns of any animal on Earth.

There are more than 3,000 known species of nudibranch, and new ones are being identified almost daily. They are found throughout the world's oceans, but are most abundant in shallow, tropical waters. Their scientific name, Nudibranchia, means naked gills, and describes the feathery gills and horns that most wear on their backs."

see much more via environmentalgraffiti.com
Beautiful Swirling Phytoplankton Blooms
- 18 Jan 2012
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- 2012 Earth from Space January 1 Ocean Plankton Blooms
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"One of the orbiting windows to our world, an Earth-observing satellite named Envisat, took this image in early December 2011 showing a phytoplankton bloom swirling into a figure-8 in the South Atlantic Ocean about 600 km east of the Falkland Islands. The European Space Agency says that since the phytoplankton are sensitive to environmental changes, it is important to monitor and model them for climate change calculations and to identify potentially harmful blooms. Sensors on the satellites can monitor these algal blooms and make an initial identification of its species and toxicity.

Blooms like this are common in the spring and summer, and it is currently summer in the southern hemisphere.

These microscopic organisms are the base of the marine food chain, and play a huge role in the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and the production of oxygen in the oceans. Besides being beautiful to see from space, phytoplankton help regulate the carbon cycle, and are important to the global climate system."

via universetoday.com
Tides near Port Orford, Oregon
- 29 Dec 2011
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- 28December11 Coastlines Moon Ocean Tides
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"The photo above shows Brush Creek rushing across a wide beach at low tide near Port Orford, Oregon. It was snapped at the base of Humbug Mountain a little past sunset on November 28, 2011. Venus and the waxing crescent Moon are conspicuous in the twilight sky.

Times and amplitudes of the tides are primarily influenced by the alignment of the Sun and Moon. The combined gravitational pull of these bodies when the Moon is full or new create higher amplitude tides than when the Moon is in other phases. Only nine percent of the Moon was illuminated as shown above, just three days following the onset of the new Moon. A minus 1.2 ft (0.4 m) tide (low tide) was recorded here a few hours after the photo was taken. However, during the new Moon, the low tide was considerably more extreme (referred to as the spring tide), dropping to minus 2.1 ft (0.6 m) with a tidal range of 11.1 ft (3.4 m)."

via epod.usra.edu
Negative vision of marine life ~ Sulawesi, Indonesia
- 15 Dec 2011
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- 14December11 Marine Life Ocean photography
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Vittoria, from London, said: "I stumbled across a negative version of one of my images and became really excited - they had the power to trigger the imagination. I was stunned, it was as if I was looking at my photos for the first time." (Sea anemone)

via steadyeddie.posterous.com
Flamboyant Cuttlefish
- 8 Dec 2011
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- 07December11 Cuttlefish Kapalai Island Malaysia Ocean
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"Metasepia pfefferi, also known as Pfeffer's Flamboyant Cuttlefish, is a species of cuttlefish occurring in tropical Indo-Pacific waters off northern Australia, southern New Guinea, as well as numerous islands of the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. Mark Norman of Museum Victoria in Victoria, Australia, discovered that this unique species of cuttlefish is poisonous."

via youtube.com
Translucent Shrimp on Anemones
- 5 Dec 2011
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- 04December11 Anemones Ocean Reefs Shrimp
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Photograph by Brian Skerry

Translucent Shrimp on Anemones, Kingman Reef, 2007

via photography.nationalgeographic.com
"Heavenly View above the Pacific Ocean"
- 4 Dec 2011
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- 03December11 Astronomy Cook Islands Night Skies Ocean Pacific
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by Tunc Tezel

This heavenly view of the southern Milky Way arching in the sky is photographed from a remote island in the Pacific Ocean.

On the left the brightest region in the band of Milky Way is the galactic central bulge toward the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius. Bright stars of Alpha and Beta Centauri, and the Southern Cross appear in the middle and slightly to the right along the fading Milky Way band. At the horizon there are three interesting objects. Bright southern star Canopus (at right) and our galactic dwarf neighbors the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds in the middle.

The south direction is pointing between them and the pacific waters meet no other land on this direction until they reach Antarctica. This pacific paradise in the southern hemisphere is Mangaia, the most southerly of the Cook Islands. This volcanic remnant has the distinction of being the oldest island in the Pacific dating back to about 18 million years ago.

As noted by the photographer "I traveled to this 10 km wide island with only 500 Polynesian residents because the total solar eclipse path of 11 July 2010 were passing over this location. This place called Rock Pools is on the western coast of the island and just a kilometer south of Oneroa village. Surf and breaking waves on the off-shore coral reef caused the lighter colours on the surface of the ocean." Tunc Tezel

via twanight.org
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