Resources & Reports

"Instruments and equipment, most of which had been born of urgent necessity, gave oceanographers the means of tracing the contours of the ocean bottom, of studying the movements of deep waters, and even of sampling the sea-floor itself."
Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us

 REPORTS

"Deep Sea Corals: Out of Sight, But No Longer Out of Mind" Santi Roberts and Michael Hirshfield, Oceana. In Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, April 2004.

"An Update on the Biology of Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus 1758) and Oil Exploration West of Shetland," Dr. Alex Rogers, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Empress Dock, Southampton, SO14 3ZH. Report Prepared for Greenpeace UK , Canonbury Villas, London N1 2PN. 

"A Preliminary Summary of the Distribution, Status, and Ecological Role of Deepwater Corals off the Northeast Coast of the United States" by Les Watling, Darling Marine Center and School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Walpole, ME 04573 and Peter Auster, National Undersea Research Center and Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut at Avery Point, Groton, CT 06340 

Heifetz, J. 2000. "Coral in Alaska:  Distribution, abundance, and species associations." Manuscript presented at the First International symposium on Deep Sea Corals, Dalhousie University, Halifax, July 30-August. 2, 2002.

RESOURCES

NOAA, 2001.  "Deep East 2001: Voyage of discovery to deep sea frontiers off the US East Coast." Available at http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/deepeast01/deepeast.pdf

NOAA Ocean Explorations:  Islands in the Stream, 2002.  Log ain at http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02sab/logs/aug22/aug22.html.

NOAA Ocean Explorations:  Gulf of Mexico, 2002.  Log in at http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02mexico/logs/oct18/oct18.html.

NOAA Ocean Explorations:  Exploring Alaska's Seamounts, 2002.  Log in at http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02alaska/logs/jul15/jul15.html.