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Marine Life Field Guide

May 23, 2012

Marine Life Field Guide

Bloodybelly comb jellies, sea pigs, hot vent tubeworms—real images and video of these and over 125 other little known inhabitants of the Pacific Ocean can now be viewed on your iPad. Our new Marine Life Field Guide is the first electronic and interactive visual reference to species of the deep sea. This unique new guide is a ‘living book’ that we'll be updating regularly with new creatures, images, videos and information.

During NEPTUNE Canada’s challenging research and maintenance expeditions into the northeast Pacific Ocean, undersea videos are captured by remotely operated submersibles diving to almost three kilometres below the ocean surface, where life forms thrive in complete darkness...

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Marine Life Field Guide | iBook | marine biology | biodiversity

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Bloodybelly comb jellies, sea pigs, deep sea spiders—real images and video of these and over 125 other little-known inhabitants of the Pacific Ocean can now be viewed on an iPad. The Marine Life Field Guide, published by the University of Victoria’s Ocean Networks Canada, is the first interactive visual reference to species of the deep sea for tablet computers.

“This unique new guide is a ‘living book’ that we'll be updating regularly with new creatures, images, videos and information,” says Dr. Kate Moran, director of NEPTUNE Canada, the regional observatoyr of UVic’s Ocean Networks Canada.

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Marine Life Field Guide | technology | iBook | education | Species Identification

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Now Available: Marine Life Field Guide

In honour of International Biodiversity day, NEPTUNE Canada has published their Marine Life Field Guide as both a PDF and an iBook, for free download. 

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