2018

  • 30 day Preliminary Cruise Report: Adaptive Robotics at Barkley Canyon

  • 30 day Preliminary Cruise Report: Coordinated Robotics Part 2

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Eddy Exploration and Ecosystem Dynamics

  • 30 day Preliminary Post Cruise Report: Filling in the Gaps

  • 30 day Preliminary Post Cruise Report: Underwater Fire

  •  Anna B. Downing, Gemma T. Wallace, Paul H. Yancey, (2018). Organic osmolytes of amphipods from littoral to hadal zones: Increases with depth in trimethylamine N-oxide, scyllo-inositol and other potential pressure counteractants. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. DOI/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.05.008

  • Baker, E., Walker, S., Resing, J., Chadwick, W., Merle, S., Anderson, M., and D. Butterfield. (2018). Hydrothermal Activity Along Back-Arc Spreading Centers: The Importance of Arc Proximity.  Poster Presentation at Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR, USA.

  • Chadwick, W., Tunnicliffe, V., Butterfield, D., Bates, A., Huber, J., Trembath-Reichert, E., Bobbitt, A., and Merle, S. (2018). Newly Discovered Hydrothermal Vent Sites Along the Mariana Back-arc Spreading Center Support Hypothesis of Geological and Chemical Control on Chemosynthetic Ecosystems. Poster Presentation at Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR, USA.

  • Du Preez, C. and C. Fisher. (2018). Long-Term Stability of Back-Arc Basin Hydrothermal Vents. Frontiers of Marine Science, 5:54, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00054. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Final Cruise Report: Eyes Below the Surface: Mapping Johnston Atoll

  • Garvin, J., Slayback, D., Ferrini, V., Frawley, J., Giguere, C., Asrar, G, and Andersen, K. (2018). Monitoring and Modelling the Rapid Evolution of Earth’s Newest Volcano Island: Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai (Tonga) Using High Spatial Resolution Satellite Observations. Geophysical Research Letters 0 (0), doi: 10.1002/2017/GL076621.

  • Garvin, J., Slayback, D., Ferrini, V., Frawley, J., Giguere, C., Asrar, G., and Anderson, K. (2018). Monitoring and Modeling the Rapid Evolution of Earth’s Newest Volcanic Island: Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai (Tonga) Using High Spatial Resolution Satellite Observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, doi: 10.1002/2017GL076621. [This article has been published as Open Access].

  • Green, R., Lowe, R., and Buckley, M. (2018). Hydrodynamics of a tidally-forced coral reef atoll. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 10.1029/2018JC013946. 

  • Informal Cruise Report: Eddy Exploration and Ecosystem Dynamics

  • McDermott, J., Sylva, S., Ono, S., German, C., and Seewald, J. (2018). Geochemistry of Fluids from Earth’s Deepest Ridge-crest Hot-springs: Piccard Hydrothermal Vent Field, Mid-Cayman Rise. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 228, 95-118, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2018.02.021.

  • Rahlff, J., Ribas-Ribas, M., Brown, S., Mustaffa, N., Renz, J., Peck, M., Bird, K., Cunliffe, M., Melkonian, K., and Zappa, C. (2018). Blue pigmentation of neustonic copepods benefits exploitation of a prey-rich niche at the air-sea boundary. Scientific Reports, 8, 11510. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-29869-7.

  • Tasso de Figueiredo Borges de Sousa, J. (2018).  Mobile connectivity and mobile locality in networked vehicle systems: are we missing something? Oral Presentation at Control 2018, Sheffield, UK.

  • Vogt, D., Becker, K., Phillips, B., Graule, M., Rotjan, R., Shank, T., Cordes, E., Wood, R. and Gruber, D. (2018). Shipboard design and fabrication of custom 3D-printed robotic manipulators for the investigation of delicate organisms. PLoS ONE 13 (8): e0200386, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200386. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Waterhouse, A., Kelly, S., Zhao, Z., MacKinnon, J., Nash, J., Simmons, H., Brahznikov, D., Rainville, L, Alford, M., and Pinkel, R. (2018). Observations of the Tasman Sea Internal Tide Beam. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 48, 1283-1297, doi: 10.1175/JPA-D-17-0116.1.

  • Wurl, O., Bird, K., Cunliffe, M., Landing, W., Miller, U., Mustaffa, N., Ribas-RIbas, M., Witte, C., and C. Zappa. (2018). Warming and inhibition of salinization at the ocean’s surface by cyanobacteria. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, doi: 10.1029/2018GL077946.

    • 2017

  • 30 day Preliminary Post Cruise Report: Unraveling Ancient Sea Level Secrets

  • Anderson, M., Chadwick, Jr. W., Hannington, M., Merle, S.,  Resing, J., Baker, E., Butterfield, D., Walker, S., and N. Augustin. (2017). Geological interpretation of volcanism and segmentation of the Mariana back-arc spreading center between 12.7°N and 18.3°N, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 18, 2240–2274, doi:10.1002/2017GC006813.  [This publication is available as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Anderson, M., Chadwick, Jr., W., Merle, S., Resing, J., Baker, E., Walker, S., Hannington, M., and N. Augustin. (2017). Relationship between Tectonism, Volcanism, and Hydrothermal Venting along the Mariana Back-arc Spreading Center between 12.7N and 18.3N. Oral Presentation at AGU Chapman Conference on Submarine Volcanism, Hobart, Tasmania, AUS.

  • Anderson, R., Reveillaud, J., Reddington, E., Delmont, T., Eren, A., McDermott, J., Seewald, J., and Huber, J. (2017).  Genomic Variation in Microbial Populations Inhabiting the Marine Subseafloor at Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vents. Nature Communications 8, 1114 (2017), doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01228-6. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Baker, E., Walker, S., Resing, J., Chadwick, Jr., W., Merle, S., Anderson, M., Butterfield, D., Buck, N., and S. Michael. (2017). The Effect of Arc Proximity on Hydrothermal Activity Along Spreading Centers: New Evidence from the Mariana Back-Arc (12.7° – 18.3°N). Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1002/2017GC007234. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Bosak, S., et al. (2017). Phytoplankton Species Composition Contributing to Carbon Export – Sea to Space Particle Investigation. Poster Presentation at 11th International Phycological Congress, Szczecin, POLAND.

  • Brandon, J., Freibott, A., Taylor, A, and Ohman, M. (2017).  The Abundance and Distribution of Nanoplastics in the California Current and the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, Imaged with a Novel Method. Poster Presentation, ASLO Meeting, Honolulu, HI, USA.

  • Cetinic, I., et. al. (2017). Sea to Space Particle Investigation Expedition in the Pacific. Invited Lecture to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Sciences and Exploration Directorate Greenbelt, MD, USA.

  • Cetinic, I., et. al. (2017). Sea to Space Particle Investigation. Poster Presentation at Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Summer Workshop, Woods Hole, MA, USA.

  • Cetinic, I., et. al. (2017). Sea2Space. Invited Colloquium to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Education and Communication Greenbelt, MD, USA.

  • Chadwick, Jr. W. From Galapagos to Mariana: Discovering the Diversity of Hydrothermal Vent Environments, Oral Presentation at OSU and Hydrothermal Vents: 40th Anniversary of the Discovery that Launched 1000 Ships, Corvallis, OR, USA.

  • Chadwick, Jr., W., Merle, S., Kaiser, C., Baker, E., Walker, S., Resing, J., Butterfield, D.,  Baumberger, T., Anderson, M., Shore, P., Wiens, D., and Rubin, K. (2017). A Recent Volcanic Eruption Discovered on the Central Mariana Back-arc Spreading Center. Oral Presentation at IAVCEI 2017 General Assembly, Portland, OR, USA.

  • Chu, J. and Gale, K. (2017). Ecophysical Limits to Aerobic Metabolism in Hypoxia Determine Epibenthic Distributions and Energy Sequestration in the Northeast Pacific, Limnology and Oceanography 62: 59 – 74. doi: 10.1002/Ino.10370. [This publication is available as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Cruise Executive Final Report: Expanding Mariana Trench Perspectives Final Cruise Report

  • Du Preez, C. (2017). Deep Sea Exploration: Filming Battles, Behavior, Bangs, & Bacon. Invited Lecture to Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

  • Du Preez, C. and C. Fisher. (2017). Remarkable Decadal Stability at Lau Basin Hydrothermal Vents (Southwest Pacific). Oral Presentation at 6th International Symposium on Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems, Woods Hole, MA, USA.

  • Du Preez, C., and C. Fisher. (2017). Monitoring Spatial and Temporal Variability at Hydrothermal Vents: A Decade of Repeated Centimeter-scale Mapping. Oral Presentation at Marine Imaging Workshop, Kiel, GERMANY.

  • Durkin, C. (2017). Linking Phytoplankton with Sinking Particles and Carbon Export. Invited Lecture to University of California Santa Cruz,  Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

  • Durkin, C., et al. (2017). Linking Surface Phytoplankton with Sinking Particles. Poster Presentation at CLIVAR/OCB Ocean Hotspots Workshop, Moss Landing, CA, USA.

  • Durkin, C., et. al. (2017). Linking Surface Phytoplankton with Sinking Particles. Poster Presentation at Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Summer Workshop, Woods Hole, MA, USA.

  • Estapa, M., et al. (2017). Optical Attenuance-based Measurements of Sinking Carbon Particles: Are Different Detectors Quantifying the Same Thing? Oral Presentation at Gordon Research Conference in Chemical Oceanography, New London, NH, USA.

  • Etnoyer, P., Wagner, D., Fowle, H., Poti, M., Kinlan, B., Georgian, S., and Cordes, E. (2017). Models of Habitat Suitability, Size, and Age-class Structure for the Deep-sea Black Coral Leiopathes Glaberrima in the Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2017.10.008.  [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Final Cruise Report: Coordinated Robotics

  • Final Cruise Report: Magnetic Anomalies at the World’s Largest Volcano

  • Final Cruise Report: Perth Canyon: First Deep Exploration

  • Final Cruise Report: Searching for Life in the Mariana Back-Arc [full version with logs)

  • Final Cruise Report: Searching for Life in the Mariana Back-Arc [without logs)

  • Fortunato, C., Larson, B., Butterfield, D., and J. Huber. (2017). Spatially Distinct, Temporally Stable Microbial Populations Mediate Biogeochemical Cycling At and Below the Seafloor in Hydrothermal Vent Fluids. Environmental Microbiology, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14011. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

  • Gartman, A., Hannington, M., Jamieson, J., Peterkin, B., Garbe-Schoenberg, D., Findlay, A., Fuchs, S., and T. Kwasnitschka. (2017). Boiling-induced Formation of Colloidal Gold in Black Smoker Hydrothermal Fluids. Geology 46(1); 39-42, doi:10.1130/G39492.1.[This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Gerringer, M., Drazen,J., and P. Yancey. (2017). Metabolic Enzyme Activities of Abyssal and Hadal Fishes: Pressure Effects and a Re-evaluation of Depth-related Changes. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 125:135-146, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2017.05.010. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].