2021

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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].

  • 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.

  • 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.

    • 2020

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Northern Depths of the Greaet Barrier Reef

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Seamounts, Canyons, and Reefs of the Coral Sea

  • 30 day Preliminary Cruise Report: Studying the Sea-surface Microlayer 2

  • 30 day Preliminary Post Cruise Report: Illuminating Biodiversity of the Ningaloo Canyons

  • 30 day Preliminary Post Cruise Report: The Great Australian Deep-sea Coral and Canyon Adventure

  • 30 day Preliminary Post Cruise Report: Visioning of the Coral Sea Marine Park

  • Amon, D., Kennedy, B., Cantwell, K., Suhre, K., Glickson, D., Shank, T. and R. Rotjan. (2020). Deep-sea Debris in the Central and Western Pacific Ocean. Front. Mar. Sci. 7:369, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00369.

  • Auscavitch, S., Deere, M., Keller, A., Rotjan, R., Shank, T., and E. Cordes. (2020).  Oceanographic Drivers of Deep-sea Coral Species Distribution and Community Assembly on Seamounts, Islands, Atolls, and Reefs within the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. Fron. Mar. Sci., 7, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00042. [This article has been published OPEN ACCESS].

  • Billings, G., and Johnson-Roberson, M. (2020). SilhoNet-Fisheye: Adaptation of a ROI Based Object Pose Estimation Network to Monocular Fisheye Images. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5(3), doi: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2994036.

  • Blum, J., Drazen, J., Johnson, M., Popp, B., Motta, L., and Jamieson, A. (2020). Mercury isotopes identify near-surface marine mercury in deep-sea trench biota. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nov 2020, 117(47) 29292-29298, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2012773117. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]

  • Breusing, C., Johnson, S., Tunnicliffe, V., Clague, D., Vrijenhoek, R., and Beinart, R. (2020). Allopatric and Sympatric Drivers of Speciation in Alviniconcha Hydrothermal Vent Snails. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(12), 3469-3484, doi: 10.1093/molbev/msaa177. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Breusing, C., Mitchell, J., Delaney, J., Sylva, S., Seewald, J., Girguis, P. and Beinart, R. (2020). Physiological dynamics of chemosynthetic symbionts in hdyrothermal vent snails. The ISME Journal, 14, 2568-2579, doi: 10.1038/s41396-020-0707-2. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Coudrier-Curveur, A., Karakas, C., Singh, S., Tapponnier, P., Carton, H., and Hananto, N. (2020). Is There a Nascent Plate Boundary in the Northern Italian Ocean? Geophyical Research Letters, 47(7), doi: 10.1029/2020GL087362. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Edwards, J. (2020). Signal Processing Advances Undersea Research. IEEE Signal Processing pgs 7-10, Magazine, doi:10.1109/MSP.2020.2982856.

  • Evans, N., Boles, E., Kwiecinksi, J., Mullen, S., Wolf, M., Devol, A. et. al. (2020). The role of water masses in shaping the distribution of redox active compounds in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific oxygen deficient zone and influencing low oxygen concentrations in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Limn. and Ocean. 65(8), doi: 10.1002/lno.11412.

  • Final Cruise Report: Adaptive Robotics at Barkley Canyon and Hydrate Ridge

  • Garcia, M., Tree, J., Wessel, P., and J. Smith. (2020). Puhahonu: Earth’s biggest and hottest shield volcano. J. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 542, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116296. [This article is OPEN ACCESS until June 26].

  • German, C., Resing, J., Xu, G., Yeo, I., Walker, S., Devey, C., et. al. (2020). Hydrothermal Activity and Seismicity at Teahitia Seamount: Reactivation of the Society Islands Hotspot? Front. Mar. Sci., 7 (73), doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00073.  [This has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Gerringer, M., Yancey, P., Tikhonova, O., Vavilov, N., Zgoda, V., and D. Davydov. (2020). Pressure Tolerance of Deep-sea Enzymes can be Evolved through Increasing Volume Changes in Protein Transitions: A Study with Lactate Dehydrogenases from Abyssal and Hadal Fishes.  FEBS Journal, doi: 10.1111/febs.15317.

  • Goffredi, S., Tilic, E., Mullin, S., Dawson, K., Keller, A., Lee, R., et. al. (2020). Methanotrophic bacterial symbionts fuel dense populations of deep-sea feather duster worms (Sabellida, Annelida) and extend the spatial influence of methane seepage.  Science Advances, 6, eaay8562, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay8562. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Grandy, J., Onat, B., Tunnicliffe, V., Butterfield, D., and Pawliszyn, J. (2020). Unique Solid Phase Microextraction Sampler Reveals Distinctive Biogeochemical Profiles among Various Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vents. Sci Rep 10, 1360, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-58418-4.  [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Hananto, N., Leclerc, F., Li, L., Etchebes, M., Carton, H., Tapponnier, P., et. al. (2020). Tsunami earthquakes: Vertical pop-up expulsion at the forefront of subduction megathrust. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 538, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116197. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Hatch, A., Liew, H., Hourdez, S., and G. Rouse. (2020). Hungry scale worms: Phylogenics of Peinaleopolynoe (Polynoidae, Annelida), with four new species. Zookeys 932:27-74, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.932.48532.

  • Jia, Y., Richards, K., and Annamalai, H. (2020). The impact of vertical resolution in reducing biases in sea surface temperature in a tropical Pacific Ocean model. Ocean Modelling, Vol. 157, doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2020.101722. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Kornei, K. (2020). A Plate Boundary Emerges between India and Australia. EOS, 101, doi: 10.1029/2020EO144177.

  • Laxague, N., and Zappa, C. (2020). The Impact of Rain on Ocean Surface Waves and Currents. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (7), doi: 10.1029/2020FL087287.

  • Lindsay, D., Hunt, J., McNeil, M., Beaman, R., and Vecchione, M. (2020).  The First In Situ Observation of the Ram’s Horn Squid Spirula spirula turns “Common Knowledge” Upside Down. Diversity, 12, 449, doi: 10.3390/d12120449.

  • Loranger, S., Barclay, D., and Buckingham, M. (2020). A New Measurement of the Deepest Depth of the Ocean. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149, 2443, doi: 10.1121/1.5146741.  [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

  • Marques, O., Alford, M., Pinkel, R., MacKinnon, J., Klymak, J., Nash. J., et. al. (2020). Internal Tide Structure and Temporal Variability on the Reflective Continental Slope of Southeastern Tasmania. Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-20-0044.1.

  • McCowin, M., Feehery, C., and G. Rouse. (2020). Spanning the depths or depth-restricted: Three new species of Bathymodiolus (Bivalvia, Mytilidae) and a new record for the hydrothermal vent Bathymodiolus thermophilus at methane seeps along the Costa Rica margin. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103322.

  • McDermott, J., Sylva, S., Ono, S., German, C. and Seewald, J. (2020). Abiotic redox reactions in hydrothermal mixing zones: Decreased energy availability for the subsurface biosphere. PNAS, 117(34) 20453-20461, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2003108117. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Moriyasu, R., Evans, N., Bolster, K., Hardisty, D., and Moffett, J. (2020). The Distribution and Redox Speciation of Iodine in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 34(2), doi: 10.1029/2019GB006302.

  • Moulana, A., Anderson, R., Fortunato, C., and Huber, J. (2020). Selection is a Significant Driver of a Gene Gain and Loss in the Pangenome of the Bacterial Genus Sulfurovum in Geographically Distinct Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vents. mSystems, 5(2) e00673-19; doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00673-19. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Mustaffa, N., Ribas-Ribas, M., Banko-Kubis, H., and O. Wurl. (2020). Global reduction of in situ CO2 Transfer Velocity by Natural Surfactants in the Sea-surface Microlayer. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Vol. 476, Issue 2234, doi: 10.1098/rspa.2019.0763. [This article has been published OPEN ACCESS].

  • Post, A., Przeslawski, R., Huang, Z., Smith, D., Kirkendale, L. and N. Wilson. (2020). Gascoyne Marine Park – Post Survey Report, RV Falkor, FK200308.  Report filed by Geoscience Australia. 

  • Rahlff, J., Khodami, S., Voskuhl, L, Humphreys, M., Stolle, C., Martinez Arbizu, P, et. al. (2020). Short-term Responses to Ocean Acidification: Effects on Relative Abundance of Eukaryotic Plankton from the Tropical Timor Sea. bioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/2020.04.30.068601.

  • Rojas-Jimenez, K., Grossart, H-P., Cordes, E., and Cortes, J. (2020). Fungal Communities in Sediments Along a Depth Gradient in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Front. Microbiol., doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.575207. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Rojas-Jimenez, K., Grossart, H., Cordes, E., and Cortes, J. (2020). Fungal communities in sediments along a depth gradient in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Front. Microbiol. 11:575207, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.575207.

  • Russell, S., Pepper-Tunick, E., Svedberg, J., Byrne, A., Ruelas Castillo, J., Vollmers, C., et. al. (2020). Horizontal transmission and recombination maintain forever young bacterial symbiont genomes. PLOS Genetics, 16(8): e1008935, doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008935. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Sager, W. (2020). Giant Volcano Rewrites the Story of Seafloor Formation. Scientific American, 322 (5). 

  • Savage, A., Waterhouse, A., and Kelly, S. (2020). Internal Tide nonstationarity and Wave-mesoscale Interactions in the Tasman Sea. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50(10), doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-19-0283.1.

  • Smith, J., Watling, L, Summers, N., Roark, E., Morgan, N., Lensing, S., et. al. (2020). Exploring for a Biogeographic Boundary along the Emperor Seamount Chain: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Oceanography 33(1), supplment, doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2020.supplement.01. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].