In April 2026, the Oceanic Flux Program (OFP) team from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) set sail aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) to recover and redeploy their deep ocean mooring, collecting six months of precious samples and data from the deep sea.

Scientists from the MBL’s Oceanic Flux Program do fieldwork on a ship. (Image credit: Oceanic Flux Program)

Established in 1978 and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the OFP is the longest-running oceanographic time series of its kind, researching particles sinking to the deep ocean. Marine invertebrate physiologist Lloyd Trueblood from La Sierra University joined the expedition to study salp physiology.…