Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island & McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Photos: Steve Alexander; Bill Baker; Isidro Bosch; Sam Bowser (S043 Archives) ; Peter Brueggeman; Kathleen Conlan (courtesy, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa/Canada) ; Paul Cziko; Paul Dayton; Guenter Foersterra; Bjørn Gulliksen (UWPhoto ANS) ; Vreni Haeussermann; Luke Hunt; Henry Kaiser; Uwe Kils; Jim Mastro; Eva Philipp; Rob Robbins; Robert Sanders (Sam Bowser/S043 Archives) ; Dirk Schories; M Dale Stokes.
Principal Photographer & Project Initiator: Norbert Wu.
Text & Web Site: Peter Brueggeman

PORIFERA - CALCAREA
calcareous sponges
PORIFERA - DEMOSPONGIAE
demosponges
PORIFERA - HEXACTINELLIDA
glass sponges
CNIDARIA - ANTHOZOA
anemones, soft coral
CNIDARIA - HYDROZOA
medusae, siphonophores, hydroids
CNIDARIA - SCYPHOZOA
jellyfish
CTENOPHORA
comb jellies, ctenophores
NEMERTINA
proboscis worms
BRACHIOPODA
brachiopods, lamp shells
ECTOPROCTA
bryozoans
ANNELIDA
polychaetes, bristle worms, featherduster worms, leeches
MOLLUSCA
gastropods, bivalves, nudibranchs, octopus
ECHINODERMATA : Asteroidea
seastars
ECHINODERMATA : Other
urchins, brittle stars, sea cucumbers, crinoids
ARTHROPODA : Crustacea
amphipods, isopods, shrimp, ostracods, krill, etc.
ARTHROPODA : Chelicerata
sea spiders
CHORDATA
fish, penguins, marine mammals, ascidians
PROTOCTISTA
foraminiferans, amoeba, algae, diatoms
ID-useful images are gratefully accepted and considered for incorporation into this Field Guide; click here to see the want list.

Input on identifications is ALWAYS appreciated.

The National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs sponsored Norbert Wu on an Artist's and Writer's Grant and this Field Guide is a direct result of that sponsorship and Norbert Wu's efforts.
Click here for a look at other work of Norbert Wu.



Click to see the Diving Under Antarctic Ice web site resulting from this NSF sponsorship of Norbert Wu's efforts. DUAI presents a thematic photo gallery, scuba diving information, this Field Guide, and personal journals based on the work of Norbert Wu's underwater photography team in McMurdo Sound.



Click to see the Guia Marina subantarctic field guide
(Dirk Schories)



DISCLAIMER: This Field Guide is intended to facilitate underwater/topside field identification from visual characters. Organisms were identified from photographs with no specimen collection. Therefire these identifications are to the taxonomic level possible from photographs, and there can be some uncertainty in identifications solely from photographs. The publications cited for each organism do not constitute a literature review and can be dated. To research a species, you can certainly start with these Field Guide citations, but search for more citations in the NSF-supported Antarctic Bibliography at www.coldregions.org/antinfo.htm. You should also search for more citations in these commercially available site-licensed indexing databases: Zoological Record, BIOSIS Previews, and Arctic & Antarctic Regions.

This is Version 17 of the Field Guide. This Field Guide is mirrored on a US McMurdo Station server in Antarctica, and updated annually there. This ucsd.edu version is the master version, and will have updated information that will not appear at the McMurdo mirror site until its annual update. The version numbering you see at McMurdo and above will reveal that disparity.
First published in April 1998. Text ©Peter Brueggeman.

Photographs may not be used in any form without the express written permission of these photographers. Contact individual photographers to request permission. Norbert Wu no longer grants permission for uncompensated use of his photos under any circumstances whatsoever; want more info?

Photographs © Steve Alexander, Isidro Bosch, Sam Bowser (S043 Archives), Peter Brueggeman, Kathleen Conlan (courtesy, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa/Canada), Paul Cziko, Paul Dayton, Guenter Foersterra, Bjørn Gulliksen (UWPhoto ANS), Vreni Haeussermann, Henry Kaiser, Uwe Kils, Jim Mastro, Eva Philipp, Rob Robbins, Robert Sanders (Sam Bowser/S043 Archives), M Dale Stokes, Norbert Wu.

About the Photographers
Steve Alexander Isidro Bosch Sam Bowser Peter Brueggeman Guenter Foersterra
Bjørn Gulliksen / UWPhoto ANS Vreni Haeussermann Jim Mastro Dirk Schories Norbert Wu

Sponsors & Thank Yous

CONTACT:
Peter Brueggeman, Director
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library
University of California, San Diego
858-534-1230

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