2021

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Australian Mesophotic Coral Examination

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Biodiverse Borderlands

  • 30 day Preliminary Cruise Report: Designing the Future 2

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Discovering Deep-sea Corals of the Phoenix Islands 2

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Ice Age Geology of the Great Barrier Reef

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Pinging in the New Year

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Pinging in the New Year: Mapping the Tasman and Coral Seas

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Seafloor to Seabirds in the Coral Sea

  • Anderson, M., Norris-Julseth, C., Rubin, K., Haase, K., Hannington, M., Baxter, A., and Stewart, M. (2021). Geologic and Structural Evolution of the NE Lau Basin, Tonga: Morphotectonic Analysis and Classification of Structures Using Shallow Seismicity. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9:665185, doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.665185.[This article was published as OPEN ACCESS with support from SOI]. 

  • Beaman, R. (2021) Schmidt Ocean Institute R/V Falkor Australia Campaign 2020-2021. Oral Presentation and Conference Paper, Sub-Committee on Regional Undersea Mapping, General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans, Virtual from Paris, France.

  • Breusing, C., Johnson, S., Mitarai, S., Beinart, R. and Tunnicliffe, V. (2021). Differential Patterns of Connectivity in Western Pacific Hydrothermal Vent Metapopulations: A Comparison of Biophysical and Genetic Models. Evolutionary Applications, 00, 1-14, doi: 10.1111/eva.13326. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Calder, D., and Watling, L. (2021). Report on Hydrozoans (Cnidaria), excluding Stylasteridae, from the Emperor Seamounts, western North Pacific Ocean.  Zootaxa, 4950(2), doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4950.2.1.  [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • De Oliveira, A., Mitchell, J., Girguis, P., Bright, M. (2021). Novel Insights on Obligate Symbiont Lifestyle and Adaptation to Chemosynthetic Environment as Revealed by the Giant Tubeworm Genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 6:msab347, doi: 10.1093/molbev/msab347.  [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Dippner, J., Weber, S., Weber, Subramaniam, A. (2021). Impact of climate variability of the Western Tropical Pacific on maximum salinity water in the South China Sea. Ocean Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s10236-021-01481-w.

  • Durkin, C., Buesseler, K., Cetinić, I., Estapa, M., Kelley, R., and Omand, M. (2021). A Visual Tour of Carbon Export by Sinking Particles. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35:10, doi: 10.1029/2021GB006985. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

  • Final Cruise Report: ROV Exploration of Deep-water Coral Habitats of Southwest Australian Submarine Canyons

  • Fortunato, C., Butterfield, D., Larson, B., Lawrence-Slavas, N., Algar, C., Zeigler Allen, L., et. al. (2021). Seafloor Incubation Experiment with Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Fluid Reveals Effect of Pressure adn Lag Time on Autotrophic Microbial Communities. Microbial Ecology, 87(9), doi: 10.1128/AEM.00078-21. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Gauthier, A., Chandler, C., Poli, V., Gardner, F., Tekiau, A., Smith, R., et al. (2021). Deep-sea microbes as tools to refine the rules of innate immune pattern recognition. Science Immunology, 6(57), doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.abe0531.

  • Gerringer, M., Dias, A., von Hagel, A., Orr, J., Summers, A., and Farina, S. (2021). Habitat influences skeletal morphology and density in the snailfishes (family Liparidae). Frontiers in Zoology, 18(16), doi: 10.1186/s12983-021-00399-9. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS with support from SOI].

  • Gerringer, M., Linley, T., and Nielsen, J. (2021). Revision of the depth record of bony fishes with notes on hadal snailfishes (Liparidae, Scorpaeniformes) and cusk eels (Ophidiidae, Ophidiiformes). Marine Biology, 168, 167, doi: 10.1007/s00227-021-03950-8. [This article is published OPEN ACCESS]. 

  • Giguere, T. and Tunnicliffe, V. (2021).  Beta diversity differs among hydrothermal vent systems: Implications for conservation. PLOS ONE 16(8), doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256637. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS with support from SOI].

  • Goffredi, S., Motooka, C., Fike, D., Gusmao, L., Tilic, E., Rouse, G., and Rodriguez, E. (2021). Mixotrophic chemosynthesis in a deep-sea anemone from hydrothermal vents in the Pescadero Basin, Gulf of California. BMC Biology, 19(8), doi: 10.1186/s12915-020-00921-1. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Hardisty, D., Horner, T., Evans, N., Moriyasu, R., Babbin, A., Wankel, S., et. al. (2021). Limited iodate reduction in shipboard seawater incubations from the Eastern Tropical North Pacific oxygen deficient zone. Earth and Planetary Sci. Letters, Vol. 554, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116676.

  • Hoffert, M., Anderson, R., Reveillaud, J., Murphy, L, Stepanauskas, R., and Huber, J. (2021). Genomic Variation Influences Methanothermococcus Fitness in Marine Hydrothermal Vents. Front. Microbiol. 12:71490, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.714920. [This article was published as OPEN ACCESS with SOI’s support].

  • Jamieson, A., Linley, T., Eigler, S., and Macdonald, T. (2021). A Global Assessment of Fishes at Lowe Abyssal and Upper Hadal Depths (5000 to 8000 m). Deep-sea Research Part 1, 178, 103642,  doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103642.

  • Jamieson, A., Stewart, H., Weston, J., and Bongiovanni, C. (2021). Hydrozoans, Scyphozoans, Larvaceans and Ctenophores Observed in situ at Hadal Depths. Journal of Plankton Research, 43(1):  20-32. doi:10.1093/plankt/fbaa062.

  • Jia, Y., Richard, K., and Annamalai, H. (2021). The Impact of Vertical Resolution in Reducing Biases in Sea Surface Temperature in a Tropical Pacific Ocean Model. Ocean Modelling, 157, doi: 10.1016/j.ocemodel.2020.101722.  [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Johnson, A. (2021). Bathymetric Exploration of the Tasman and Coral Seas aboard the R/V Falkor. Quaternary Australasia, Vol. 38, No. 1, 11-13.

  • Kelly, S., Waterhouse, A., and Savage, A. (2021).  Global Dynamics of the Stationary M2 Mode-1 Internal Tide, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, doi: 10.1029/2020GL091692.  [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

  • Kwiecinski, J., and Babbin, A. (2021). A High-resolution Atlas of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zones. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35 (12), doi: 10.1029/2021GB007001.

  • Loranger, S., Barclay, D., and Buckingham, M. (2021). Implosion in the Challenger Deep. Oceanography, 34: 156-165, doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2021.201.  [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Marcon, Y., Kelley, D., Thornton, B., Manalang, D., and Bohrmann, G. (2021). Variability of Natural Methane Bubble Release at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, doi: 10.1029/2021GC009894. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Marlow, J., Hoer, D., Jungbluth, S., Reynard, L, Gartman, A., Chavez, M., et. al. (2021). Carbonate-hosted microbial commuities are prolific and pervasive methane oxidizeres at geologically diverse marine methane seep sites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(25), doi: 10.1073/pnas.2006857118. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • McNeil, M. (2021). No Pandemic-pause for Multi-disciplinary Reef Exploration in 2020Reef in Review, 50, 8-10. [This article is published as OPEN ACCES].

  • McNeil, M., Nothdurft, Lk, Webster, J., Brooke, B., and Beaman, R. (2021). Preliminary Exploration of the Southern Great Barrier Reef Ice Age Submerged and Drowned Coral Reefs, Oral Presentation, Submerged Paleolandscapes of the Southern Hemispheries SHINE 2021 Workshop, virtual.

  • Michel, A., Preston, P., Fauria, V., and Nicholson, D. (2021). Observations of Shallow Methane Bubble Emissions from Cascadia Margin. Front. In Earth Sci., 9, 285, doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.613234. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Negrete-Aranda, R., Neumann, F., Contreras, J., Harris, R., Spelz, R., Zierenberg, R., and Caress, D. (2021). Transport of Heat by Hyrothermal Circulation in a Young Rift Setting: Observations from the Auka and JaichMaa Ja’ag’ Vent Field in the Pescadero Basin, Southern Gulf of California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, doi: 10.1029/2021JB022300.

  • Pinto, J., Costa, M., Lima, K., Dias, P., Pereira, J., Riberio, M., et al. (2021). To Boldly Dive Where No One Has Gone Before: Experiments in Coordinated Robotic Ocean Exploration. Conference Paper, International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-71151-1_42. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Rahlff, J., Khodami, S., Voskuhl, L., Humphreys, M., Stolle, C., Martinez Arbizu, P., et. al. (2021). Short-term responses to ocean acidification: effects on relative abundance of eurkaryotic plankton from the tropical Timor Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 658:59-74, doi: 10.3354/meps13561.

  • Rahlff, J., Stolle, C., Giebel, H., Mustaffa, N., Wurl, O., and Herlemann, D. (2021). Sea Foams are Ephemeral Hotspots for Distinctive Bacterial Communities Contrasting Sea-surface Microlayer and Underlying Surface Water. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 97, 4, doi: 10.1093/fiab035. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Rouse, G., and Kupriyanova, E. (2021). Laminatubus (Serpulidae, Annelida) from eastern Pacific hydrothermal vents and methane seeps, with description of two new species. Zootaxa, 4914(1), doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4915.1.1. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Speth, D., Yu, F., Connon, S., Lim, S., Magyar, J., Pena, M. et al. (2021). Microbial community of recently discovered Auka vent field sheds light on vent biogeography and evolutionary history of thermophily. BioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/2021.08.02.454472. [This article has been published sas OPEN ACCESS].

  • Swan, J., Jamieson, A., Linley, T., and Yancey, P. (2021).  Worldwide Distribution and Depth Limits of Decapod Crustaceans (Penaeoidea, Oplophoroidea) across the Abyssal-hadal Transition Zone of Eleven Subduction Trenches and Five Additional Deep-sea Features. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 41(1), doi: 10.1093/jcbiol/ruaa102.

  • Thomas, E., Anderson, R., Li, V., Rogan, L., and Huber, J. (2021). Diverse Viruses in Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Fluids Have Restricted Dispersal across Ocean Basins. Geomicrobiology 6(3), doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00068-21. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Vega-Ramirez, L., Spelz, R., Negrete-Aranda, R., Neumann, F., Caress, D., Clague, D., et al. (2021). A New Method for Fault-scarp Detection using Linear Discriminant Analysis in High-resolution Bathymetry Data from the Alarcon Rise and Pescadero Basin. Tectonics, 40 (12), doi: 10.1029/2021TC006925.

  • Walker, J., Prugel-Bennett, A., and Thornton, B. (2021). Towards Observation Condition Agnostic Fauna Detection and Segmentation in Seafloor Imagery for Biomass Estimation. Conference Technical Paper, OCEANS 2021, San Diego, CA, USA.

  • Watanbe, H., Chen, C., Chan, B., (2021). A new deep-sea hot vent stalked barnacle from the Mariana Trough with notes on the feeding ecology of Vulcanolepas. Marine biodiversity, 51(9), doi: 10.1007/s12526-020-01144-x. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS with support from SOI].

  • Weber, S., Loick-Wilde, N., Montoya, J., Bach, M., Doan-Nhu, H., Subramaniam, A., et al. (2021). Environmental Regulation of the Nitrogen Supply, Mean Trophic Position, and Trophic Enrichment of Mesozooplankton in the Mekong River Plume and Southern South China Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 126, doi: 10.1029/2020JC017110. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

  • Zhang, Y., Ryan, J., Hobson, B., Kieft, B., Romano, A., Barone, B., et. al. (2021). A system of coordinated autonomous robots for Lagrangian studies of microbes in the oceanic deep chlorophyll maximum. Science Robotics, 6(50), doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.abb9138.