“With Three Wings” from the Greek tripteros, this observant blenny (of the Order Blenniformes) displays unique red biofluorescent marking on her eyes and upper brainstem.
#Enneapterygius
Honored to co-curate this exhibition @mishkingallery !
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On September 1st “Who Speaks for the Oceans?” opens at Mishkin Gallery. The exhibition proposes new and challenging ways to shift our understandings of and relationships to whales and other nonhuman animals. Through over fifteen interdisciplinary artworks in video, installation, painting, tapestry, music, performance, and more, “Who Speaks for the Oceans?” analyzes epistemological and historical knowledge built around what we think we know about life in the ocean through the charismatic “whale song.”
Artists: Ant Farm, Ursula Biemann, Else Bostelmann, Myrlande Constant, Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle, Pia Dehne, Miho Hatori, Marguerite Humeau, Will Jackson, Joan Jonas, Dominique Knowles, Alvin Lucier, Chris Marker and Mario Ruspoli, Josèfa Netjam, and Roger Payne
Curated by Alaina Claire Feldman, Director and Curator of Mishkin Gallery and David Gruber, Distinguished Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences
Link in bio 🔝 for more info!
@baruchweissman@baruch_college@projectceti@luminescent_labs@cunyarts
Eye of a Shark.
This beautiful shark inspired the study to design a “shark-eye”camera to witness the underwater world from a sharks perspective.
For the lurid details on the collaborative interdisciplinary study: “Bofluorescence in Catsharks (Scyliorhinidae): Fundamental Description and Relevance for Elasmobranch Visual Ecology”
🎥 in collaboration with Brennan Vance
📷Kyle McBurnie of David Gruber in the Scripps Canyon with “shark-eye” camera.
#sharks#perspective#vision
The Vampire Squid. In the deep sea, imaged with a low-light Canon ME20 camera to minimize disturbance —and in Joan Jonas’s Moving Off The Land II at @oceanspaceorg in Venice.
The vampire squid has the lowest metabolic rate and highest hemocyanin-oxygen binding affinity of any cephalopod, allowing them to explore the oxygen minimum layer—where other squids would dare not explore.
The vampire squid is the only living member of the order Vampyromorpha, closely linked to the origin of octopuses. And, they also glow.
For a deep dive: Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste.🐙🖤🐙
🎥in collaboration with Brennan Phillips.
#vampirediaries#vampyroteuthisinfernalis#teuthology#octopus#joanjonas
Moray eels, with about 200 species across 15 genera, are now known to possess members who can produce fluorescent proteins. What this means to the eel is still a mystery, but they are known to aggregate on full moon nights —when the moonlight would stimulate their biofluorescence and enable them to glow green. The study is just out: “Discovery and Characterization of a Bilirubin Inducible Green Fluorescent Protein From the Moray Eel” in @frontiersin_
Proud to have worked with a stellar interdisciplinary team including Jean Gaffney, Sara Krivoshik, Andy Guarnaccia and John Sparks.
Hippocampus Magic.
Of all the species of marine creatures I have had the honor or getting to know, the lined seahorse, Hippocampus erectus, is one that stands out as particularly magical. This image was taken with filmmaker Brennan Vance on an expedition when Hippocampus first shared its biofluorescent properties.🌟
Light Under Iceberg. 2021.
Details of this luminary snailfish in Novitates:
“First report of biofluorescence in Arctic snailfishes and rare occurrence of multiple fluorescent colors in a single species”.
#arctic#snailfish#biofluorescence#amnh
Introducing the first Arctic biofluorescent fish!
Coming across this beautiful red and green biofluorescent snailfish on a night dive among icebergs at the top of the world felt like a moment straight from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou! My last expedition before the pandemic...
The science paper on this finding is out today in Novitates.🐟
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Thanks to collaborators John Sparks, Robert Schelly, W. Leo Smith, Matthew Davis, Dan Tchernov and Vincent Pieribone for illuminating this door of perception together six years ago.
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“Covert World of #Biofluorescence”
