DEEP SEA OBSERVATORY LOOKS AT CLIMATE CHANGE-- Associated Press
reporter Jason Dearen joined Bigelow Adjunct Scientist Edith
Widder, a senior scientist at the Ocean Research and
Conservation Association, for the deployment of a 502-pound "Eye
in the Sea" video camera off the coast of California as part of
a scientific study of the impacts of climate change on marine
life. (2/08/2009) The so-called Eye-in-the-Sea camera would be
added to the first observatory operating in deep sea water and
become part of a new kind of scientific exploration to assess
the impacts of climate change on marine life. "Bye bye," said
marine scientist Edith Widder, who supervised the deployment
last month as the bulking Web camera splashed into the water and
disappeared into blackness. "Hope it works." The camera is one
of many instruments powered by the Monterey Accelerated Research
Station or MARS, an underwater observatory that began operating
in November off the California coast. The observatory, which
looks like a giant metal p