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Solomon Islands Album

Solomon Islands Album

Squarespot Anthias (Pseudanthias pleurotaenia).

Coral reef at 2-4 meters depth.

A beautiful way to start the day - a rainbow greets the groundtruthing team.

School of pennant bannerfish (Heniochus chrysostomus).

Young men enjoying a canoe ride in the windy conditions.

Have you ever taken a scuba selfie? Here is a good one from Ken Marks.

The scientists enjoy a visit with the local kids.

The scientists had some local children visit them while on their dive.

Local children free-diving to have their photos taken by scientists who are scuba diving.

Black and white sea krait (Laticauda columbrina).

Adhesive anemone (Cryptodendrum adhaesivum) with threespot damselfish (Dascyllus trimaculatus) swimming around.

Traditional fishing weight used to sink handlines – made of palm fronds tied around a rock.

Colors of the reef.

School of blue and yellow fusiliers (Caesio teres) swimming over the top of a plating coral.

Scientists surfacing from a dive.

We just surfaced from a dive to see this beautiful view.

School of blue and yellow fusiliers (Caesio teres).

Holding on by a thread.

Euphyllia coral.

School of blue and yellow fusiliers (Caesio teres).

Here is a close-up photo of Seriatopora coral.

Sculptured slipper lobster (Parribacus antarcticus).

Beautiful reef in Marovo Lagoon.

Dugout canoes lining up to get a closer look at the ship.

What a great way to end our day….a beautiful sunset in the Arnarvon Islands.

Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas).

Here is a close-up photo of a cushion star.

Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) cruising by the divers today near Vanikoro Island.

On one of our dives, a hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) swam by us today.

School of bigeye trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus).

Large orange gorgonian.

Corals with blue sponge (looks like fingers) growing nearby.

Chief Scientist, Andrew Bruckner, conducting coral surveys.

Tube sponge.

Steephead parrotfish (Chlorurus microrhinos).

Kristin Stolberg conducting benthic survey.

LOF Fellow, Badi Samaniego, collecting fish survey data.

LOF Fellow, Badi Samaniego, conducting reef fish survey.

Grace Frank conducting coral survey.

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Porites lobata coral with many different species of fish.

M/Y Golden Shadow near Marovo Lagoon.

Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas).

Fellow Anderson Mayfield checking out beautiful orange gorgonian.

Chief Scientist Andrew Bruckner surveying corals.

Scientists ascending from a dive.

Orange sea whip.

Orange gorgonian.

Orange gorgonian.

Scientists ascending from a scuba dive.

Scientist Renee Carlton conducting ocean acidification research.

Interesting growth pattern of Acropora coral.

Interesting growth pattern of Acropora coral.

Family of pink anemonefish (Amphiprion perideraion) living in anemone.

Each one of these corals is an individual coral polyp known as fungid coral.

Day octopus (Octopus cyanea) changes its colors to try and camouflage with the background.

Day octopus (Octopus cyanea) crawling around the reef.

Acropora table coral.

Shoal of bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana).

Scorpaenopsis spp.

Sea whips (red) are a type of soft coral.

Mosaic of Crustose Coralline Algae (CCA).

Large gorgonian sea fan.

Gorgeous soft coral.

Close-up photo of a soft coral colony.

Garden of gorgonians, soft corals, and crinoids.

Warty sea stars (Echinaster callosus) are named after the large round bumps that cover their arms.

Warty sea star (Echinaster callosus).

Gorgonian sea fan with winged oyster.

Zebra dartfish (Ptereleotris zebra) aggregating on bottom.

Cuming’s sea star (Neoferdina cumingi).

Black-axil chromis (Chromis atripectoralis) and reticulated dascyllus hanging out above coral thicket.

A beautiful close-up view of the mantle (tissue) of a giant clam.

Junvenile pinnate spadefish (Platax pinnatus).

Fishing net left behind.

It was a good start to our day waking up to a double rainbow near Malakobi Island.

Unidentified sea star.

Chubs and snapper swimming around a coral bommie.

Xenia soft coral.

Pair of reef lizardfish (Synodus variegatus).

Feather star resting on top of a blue sponge.

Macro view of Acropora.

Here is a gorgeous giant clam. Notice the two openings called siphons. These siphons allow the clam to filter feed.

This worm-like creature is actually a sea cucumber (Synaptula lamperti).

Fellow Badi Samaniego conducting a fish survey.

Scientists boarding the Calcutta after returning from a dive.

This ‘Halgerda batangas’ nudibranch (sea slug) almost looks more like a sponge than a sea slug.

A macro view of cushion star (Culcita novaeguineae).

Researcher Renee Carlton hard at work studying the effect of ocean acidification on corals.

Here is one animal that we often find on our dives called the blue sea star (Linckia laevigata).

This is the underside of a cushion star (Culcita novaeguineae).

Scientists Monteiro and Anderson Mayfield ascending from a dive.

We Nemo AKA the clown anemonefish (Amphiprion percula).

Looking up from the underwater world below.

Ken Marks ascending from a dive after taking photo transects.

Crown thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) eating an Acropora coral.

A beautiful blue-spotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma) resting on the bottom of the reef.

Here is a photo of two different ‘Acropora’ species.

Spotfin squirrelfish (Neoniphon sammara) hanging out in staghorn coral.

Freckled hawkfish (Paracirrhites forsteri) perched on coral.

Double-bar goatfish (Parupeneus crassilabris).

Close-up view of Symphyllia coral.

Side view of a lue elephant ear sponge.

A school of blackfin barracuda (Sphyraena qenie).

Phyllidia elegans, a type of dorid nudibranch.

This day octopus (Octopus cyanea) was trying to camouflage itself near a rock.

Fellow, Joao Monteiro photographing a blue, elephant ear sponge.

Crocodile flatheads (Cymbacephalus beauforti) usually try to camouflage themselves; however, we saw this fish in its black phase.

A crocodile flathead (Cymbacephalus beauforti) blending in with its background.

Top view of a lue elephant ear sponge.

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