María de los Ángeles Gallardo – Centro Científico ESMOI, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte More than 1,000 meters below the surface, shrouded in perpetual darkness and hovering just above freezing, lies a world that until recently remained virtually unexplored. This extreme environment is home to tiny
by Jan Maximiliano F. Tapia-Guerra – (Centro Científico ESMOI, UniversidadCatólica del Norte, Coquimbo.) In the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, where the ocean seems endless and silence is as deep as the waters themselves, rises a nameless seamount from the abyss. It emerges like a sleeping giant, hidden beneath
by Ignacio Diaz-Godoy & Jan Maximiliano F. Tapia-Guerra – Centro Científico ESMOI- Universidad Católica del Norte – Anillo BiodUCCT ATE220044 In the quietest realms of the Pacific Ocean, where sunlight dissolves and pressure becomes overwhelming, dwell creatures that seem to have stepped out of a fantastic tale. Along the hidden
By Dra. Naití Morales Serrano – Centro de Ecología y Manejo Sustentable de Islas Oceánicas (ESMOI) Motu Motiro Hiva (Salas & Gómez Island) is a small island located 3,210 km from the American continent and 400 km east of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), its nearest territory. This islet of 0.15
by Rapa Nui’s marine ecosystem is unique, with many endemic species that occur nowhere else in the world. This ecological distinctive community has been able to form due to the island’s extreme remoteness: Rapa Nui is situated 2000 km from the closest Polynesian Islands and 4000 km off the South
Everything is in Motion – An Island in the Middle of the Ocean by Martin Thiel, Bernhard Steinberger & Tim Kiessling Did you know that the geological history of Rapa Nui depends on two types of volcanism? There is on the one hand the Mid-Ocean Ridge, which crosses the South
