PhD student, phylogeny and biogeography of deep-sea Antarctic sea spiders. Also got a soft spot for Polychaetes He/Him 🏳️🌈🇮🇪🧜🏼♂️ science & other stuff
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ALT A map showing the location of the Hesperides Deep
ALT The catch from an Agassiz trawl, including stones and starfish
ALT Deploying the trawl. Crew and scientists dressed in orange and attached to safety lines.
ALT A close up of a starfish’s upper surface
ALT A male Nymphon species, with eggs, photographed under UV light
ALT There different Nymphon species
ALT A small Nymphon species photographed under UV light
ALT An Austropallene sea spider
ALT A sea spider, from the genus Nymphon, against a black background. It is a yellow colour, with hairy legs.
ALT A Nymphon sea spider under UV light. The light makes the hairs on its leg stand out compared to the rest of its body
ALT A front view of a Nymphon sea spider
ALT A male Nymphon sea spider, carrying round a large brood of larvae on its underside
ALT Bringing the corer back on deck
ALT Extruding the mud from the cylinder
ALT Sieving the mud
ALT Checking the sieve
ALT The RMT25 net being deployed at night
ALT The moon lighting up the night sky with a ship’s life ring in the foreground
ALT Engineers, crew and scientists bring in the nets
ALT A scientist empties the catch into a big bucket ready for sorting
