Photographer
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife ROV

Location
Cape Perpetua

Caption:Screen capture from the robotic submersible showing communities of rockfish that inhabit nearshore reefs previous to the rise of anoxia in 2006.

Photographer
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife ROV

Location
Cape Perpetua

Caption: Screen capture from the robotic submersible showing a seastar that succumbed to the rise of anoxia (completely loss of oxygen) in nearshore reefs.

Photographer
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife ROV

Location
Cape Perpetua

Caption:Screen capture of video feed from a robotic submersible deployed reveals mass die-off of marine sea-life as a result of the extreme low oxygen conditions encountered in 2006

Photographer
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife ROV

Location
Cape Perpetua

Caption:Screen capture from the robotic submersible showing carcasses of marine worms, sea cucumbers, crabs and other marine life that succumbed to the rise of anoxia (complete loss of oxygen) in nearshore reefs.

Photographer
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife ROV

Location
Cape Perpetua

Caption: Screen capture from the robotic submersible showing a seastar that succumbed to the rise of anoxia (completely loss of oxygen) in nearshore reefs.

Photographer
Jane Lubchenco

Location
R/V Elakha

Caption: Dr. Hal Weeks deploying an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife robotic submersible(remotely operated vehicle :ROV) to survey the effects of low oxygen zones along the Oregon coast.

Photographer
Elizabeth Gates

Location
Cape Perpetua

Caption:Dungeness crabs that washed up along the Oregon coast after succumbing to low-oxygen conditions during 2004

Photographer
Jane Lubchenco

Location

Caption:Seastars feasting on Dungeness crabs that succumbed to low oxygen conditions during 2004. Dungeness crabs are not a normal part of the diet of tidepool seastars

Photographer
Bruce Menge

Location
Port Orford Head, Oregon

Caption:An intense algae bloom that occurs along the wave-swept shore in response to wind-driven ocean currents. Researchers from Oregon State University are studying how changes in ocean conditions affect the ecology of these near-shore seas

Photographer
Tristan Peery

Location
R/V Elakha

Caption:Assistant Professor R. Kipp Shearman and summer student Alexandra Cwalina prepare a glider for deployment off Newport, Oregon

Photographer
David Reinert

Location
OSU ShipOps, Newport OR

Caption:Dr. R. Kipp Shearman preparing an autonomous robotic glider for deployment off Oregon. The glider patrols the coastal ocean detecting changes in oxygen levels and other key aspects of ocean condition.

Photographer
Jack Barth 

Location
Off Oregon's Coast

Caption:Changes in buoyancy make the underwater glider move up and down while the wings allow the vehicle to move forward. Satellite cell phone and GPS antennae are contained in the tail fin

Photographer
Christopher Holmes

Location
Off Oregon's Coast

Caption:Glider in calm water

Photographer
Susan Holmes

Location
R/V Elakha

Caption:OSU researchers recover glider ‘bob’ after a three-week mission off Newport, Oregon

Photographer
Jack Barth

Location
R/V Elakha

Caption:Autonomous underwater glider operated by Oregon State University is capable of measuring physical and biological properties of the upper ocean

Photographer
Jane Lubchenco

Location
R/V Elakha

Caption:Dr. Francis Chan (PISCO-OSU) recovering an oxygen-sensing instrument and water samples along the Oregon coast during the height of the 2006 low oxygen event

Photographer
Jane Lubchenco

Location
R/V Elakha

Caption:Dr. Francis Chan (PISCO-OSU) recovering an oxygen-sensing instrument and water samples along the Oregon coast during the height of the 2006 low oxygen event

Photographer
Jack Barth

Location
R/V Elakha

Caption:Oceanographic instruments being deployed off the Oregon State University research vessel Elakha as part of the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) research

Photographer
Jack Barth

Location
R/V Wecoma

Caption:Photo of a new state-of-the-art ocean observing buoy before it was first deployed in July 2006 off the Oregon coast. The OrCOOS (Oregon Coastal Ocean Observing System) buoy contains an array of environmental sensors in the air and through the water column that detects changes in wind, oxygen, temperature, ocean currents and other indicators of ocean change

Photographer
Jack Barth

Location
R/V Wecoma

Caption:Oregon Coastal Ocean Mooring: Researcher deploying a moored buoy off Newport, Oregon, equipped with oceanographic sensors that can aid in detecting and monitoring changes in the ocean environment.

Photographer
Jack Barth

Location
R/V Wecoma

Caption:Photo of a new state-of-the-art ocean observing buoy when it was first deployed in July 2006 off the Oregon coast. The OrCOOS (Oregon Coastal Ocean Observing System) buoy contains an array of environmental sensors in the air and through the water column that detects changes in wind, oxygen, temperature, ocean currents and other indicators of ocean change

Photographer
Jack Barth

Location
R/V Wecoma

Caption:Oceanographic instruments being deployed off the Oregon State University research vessel Wecoma as part of the Oregon Coastal Ocean Observing System (OrCOOS)