Chris German, chief scientist for the National Deep Submergence Facility at WHOI, talks about experiments going on to optimize Alvin‘s new lighting and camera systems during the Alvin Science Verification cruise. (Video courtesy of Peter Girguis, chief scientist, Harvard; Funding agencies: NSF, ONR, NOAA; ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Edited by Chris Linder, WHOI)
I wish you would have used the term “sea star” (not starfish), as I am trying to get my students to use the more scientific term. Thanks! -from someone who studied sea stars in grad school 🙂