The study of the ecology of marine communities that live on or near the rocks and sediments of the ocean floor. (Crab photo courtesy biological oceanographer Lisa Levin.) CMBC promotes ...

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Benthic Invertebrate Collection (SIO-BIC) is an active research repository housing 71,000+ lots, representing 1,000,000+ specimens and 7,600+ species from ...

Currently, Justin is fascinated by the abundant, but often overlooked, group of small, benthic, invertebrate animals classified as meiofauna. He aims to examine the relationship between the ...