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The second hadal-rated benthic respirometer lander, Kaia, was shipped to the departure port in two containers for an upcoming cruise back to the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.  SAMS staff will be joining the vessel later this autumn.

The second hadal-rated benthic respirometer lander arrived at SAMS in May 2026 and spent the rest of May and June being tested. The lander, named "Kaia", has O2, pH, turbidity, pressure, conductivity, and H2 sensors onboard and a Niskin rosette system for sampling water at

Dr. Jeff Marlow and Dr. Frederica Calabrese together with Prof. Andrew Sweetman met up at Boston University for several days in November to start to plan out the first DOP experiments for 2026 and agree on the set of first in-situ experiments. It was a

The SAMS team recently received its first dark oxygen lander named ‘Alisa’, which is capable of measuring dark oxygen production and hydrogen production at the deep seafloor.  The lander is built to withstand the pressures at the deepest ocean depths (11km). It features seafloor chambers

A new deep-sea study involving SAMS scientists has revealed the long-term impacts and the first signs of biological recovery in seabed mining tracks, 44-years after deep-sea trails in the Pacific Ocean. The findings, published today in scientific journal Nature, provide critical evidence to the global deep-sea

Deep-sea scientists have announced the most detailed examination yet of our deep ocean which could provide clues to how life on Earth began – and even whether life can be sustained on other planets in and outside our solar system. The team, led by Prof.

A discovery in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean is challenging the scientific consensus of how oxygen is produced and has even called into question how life on Earth began. Photosynthetic organisms like plants and algae use energy from sunlight to create the planet’s