The Marine Bioproducts Engineering Center, a joint ERC of the University of Hawaii and UC, Berkeley, maintains the new Edwin W. Pauley Marine Laboratory on Coconut Island to isolate and identify species from one of the most unique and diverse marine ecosystems in the world. The ERC employs the Pisces V, a 2,000-meter rated submersible, and its mothership to access bioresources living in active submarine volcano vents and other remote seafloor environments throughout the Pacific.