WormCam!

And you thought the seafloor was a quiet place where nothing happens... Check out this amazing underwater video from WormCam, a submerged camera developed at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) with funding from the National Science Foundation. A pair of WormCams provide still images and time-lapse movies to help scientists better understand the important role that burrowing animals play in mixing seafloor sediments, and the physical forces that control erosion, deposition, and transport of seafloor sediments, nutrients, and contaminants. This time-lapse movie is of seafloor changes between April 10-April 21, 2008. Visit http://www.vims.edu/research/units/labgroups/benthic_ecology/worm_cam/index.php for more movies.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Chesapeake Bay
• sediment
• seafloor
• benthic
• infaunal
• erosion
• deposition