Digital collections

Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Close-up of a vent barnacle that we'recurrently trying to identify. The furry things are their little legs(cirri) that capture food particles. The density of barnacles was so extremehere that there was little room for other organisms. The red dots at the topof the image are lasers, spaced 10 centimeters apart for scale. (Image credit: Pacific Ring of Fire 2004 Expedition. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration; Dr. Bob Embley, NOAA PMEL, Chief Scientist)