WormCam Ashore: The WormCam ashore, showing the clear plexiglass window through which images are taken. The window is positioned to straddle the sediment-water interface.
Photo by Todd Nelson.
WormCam Buoy: The WormCam is tethered beneath this buoy at Clay Bank in the York River.
Photo by Todd Nelson.
WormCam Still: A still image from the WormCam shows the sediment-water interface. Note the many small worm burrows, the large burrow in the lower left, and the blanket of organic detritus on the surface.
WormCam
WormCam is an underwater camera developed at VIMS with funding from the National Science Foundation. A pair of WormCams currently provide sediment-level images of the York River seafloor at two locations. Still images and time-lapse movies from WormCam help scientists better understand the important role that burrowing animals play in mixing seafloor sediments, and the physical forces that control erosion, deposition, and transport of seafloor sediments, nutrients, and contaminants.
Real-Time Still Images
View real-time, cross-sectional images of the seafloor from a pair of underwater cameras deployed in the York River at Gloucester Point and Clay Bank.
WormCam Time-Lapse Movies
- CB1&2.mov
- GP03 Plastic.mov
- WormCam.avi (.avi file)
- WormCam1.avi (.avi file)
- A time-lapse movie of seafloor changes between March 25-April 9, 2008 (High-resolution .mov file | Lower resolution .mov file.
- Wormcam Apr10-Apr21.mov A time-lapse movie of seafloor changes between April 10-April 21, 2008
- A time-lapse movie of seafloor changes between April 10-May 6, 2008 (high-resolution .mov file | lower resolution version).
- Wormcam01.mov
