Seaweeds of the NW Gulf of Mexico

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03mex/welcome.html

Film footage taken with a SONSUB ROV on board the R/V Ron Brown during the 2003 NOAA Ocean Exploration expedition to the northwestern Gulf of Mexico was kindly provided by Emma Hickerson, PI (Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary).

Edited film segments highlight the topography of unconsolidated rubble and rhodoliths (round carbonate nodules surrounded by crust-forming red algae) that support a lush and diversity-rich marine macroalgal flora at 45-90 m depth.

Collected seaweed specimens are deposited in the seaweed laboratory of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
http://morayeel.louisiana.edu/SeaweedsLab/phycomirth.html

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• Gulf
• of
• Mexico
• NOAA
• Marine
• Exploration
• hard
• banks
• Louisiana
• seaweeds
• rhodoliths
• macroalgae
• algae
• alga
• seaweed
• Phycology
• offshore