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  • Unexplored Seamounts of the Salas y Gómez Ridge
  • Seamounts of the Southeast Pacific
  • Octopus Odyssey (too)
  • Ultra Fine-Scale Seafloor Mapping
  • Vertical Reefs of the Galápagos
  • Dynamics of Sinking Microplastics
  • Hydrothermal Vents of the Western Galápagos
  • The Underworld of Hydrothermal Vents
  • Octopus Odyssey
  • Health Diagnostics of Deep-Sea Coral
  • In Search of Hydrothermal Lost Cities
  • Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Pescadero Basin
  • Designing the Future 2
  • Biodiverse Borderlands
  • Discovering Deep-Sea Corals of the Phoenix Islands 2
  • Seafloor to Seabirds in the Coral Sea
  • Pinging in the New Year: Mapping the Tasman and Coral Seas
  • Ice Age Geology of the Great Barrier Reef
  • Northern Depths of the Great Barrier Reef
  • Going with the Flow: Targeted Autonomous Drifting
  • Seamounts, Canyons & Reefs of the Coral Sea
  • Visioning the Coral Sea Marine Park
  • Australian Mesophotic Coral Examination
  • Illuminating Biodiversity of the Ningaloo Canyons
  • The Great Australian Deep-Sea Coral and Canyon Adventure
  • Listening for Cryptic Whales Species
  • Studying the Sea-Surface Microlayer 2
  • Deep Coral Diversity at Emperor Seamount Chain 2019
  • Observing Seafloor Methane Seeps at the Edge of Hydrate Stability
  • Microbial Mysteries: Linking Microbial Communities and Environmental Drivers
  • New Approaches To Autonomous Exploration At The Costa Rican Shelf Break
  • Costa Rican Deep Sea Connections
  • Interdisciplinary Investigation of a New Hydrothermal Vent Field
  • Characterizing Venting and Seepage Along the California Coast
  • Hunting Bubbles: Understanding Plumes of Seafloor Methane
  • Adaptive Robotics at Barkley Canyon and Hydrate Ridge
  • Solving Microbial Mysteries with Autonomous Technology
  • Exploring Fronts with Multiple Robots
  • Voyage to the White Shark Café
  • Eddy Exploration and Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Coordinated Robotics Part 2: ʻAuʻAu Channel
  • Filling the Gaps: Mapping Ellice Basin
  • Underwater Fire: Studying the Submarine Volcanoes of Tonga
  • Discovering Deep Sea Corals of the Phoenix Islands
  • Unraveling Ancient Sea Level Secrets
  • Sea to Space Particle Investigation
  • Eyes Below the Surface: Mapping Johnston Atoll
  • Searching for Life in the Mariana Back-Arc
  • A Changing River: Measuring Nutrient fluxes to the South China Sea
  • Ecosystem Dynamics of Hydrothermal Vent Communities
  • Study of the Sea-Surface Microlayer and Air-Sea Boundary
  • Virtual Vents: The Changing Face of Hydrothermalism Revealed
  • Investigating Life without Oxygen in the Tropical Pacific
  • Sustainability of Reef Fishes and Causes of Harmful Algal Blooms
  • Mapping the South Texas Banks
  • Deep Sea Coral Shakedown
  • Long Term Effects of the Deep-water Horizon Oil Spill
  • Exploring the Mariana Trench
  • Expanding Mariana Trench Perspectives
  • Tracking the Tasman Sea’s Hidden Tide
  • Perth Canyon: First Deep Exploration
  • Coordinated Robotics
  • Timor Sea Reef Connections
  • Unlocking Tsunami Secrets
  • Imaging the K-T Boundary
  • Hydrothermal Exploration of the Mid-Cayman Rise
  • Serendipitous Side Trip
  • Magnetic Anomalies at the World’s Largest Volcano
  • Leg Two, Open Ocean to Inner Sea
  • Leg One, Open Ocean to Inner Sea
  • Axial Seamount Cruise 2013
  • The Secret Lives of Whales
  • Leg Two, Papahānaumokuākea Monument
  • Leg One, Papahānaumokuākea Monument
  • The Iron Eaters of Loihi Seamount
  • The Mysteries of Ontong Java
  • Hydrothermal Hunt at Mariana
  • Mixing Up the Tropical Pacific

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    2024

  • 30 day Preliminary Cruise Report: Microbes in Oxygen Minimum Zones

  • 30 day Preliminary Cruise Report: Seamounts of the Southeast Pacific

  • 30 day Preliminary Cruise Report: Unexplored Seamounts of the Salas y Gomez Ridge

  • Baker, I., and Girguis, P. (2024). Sulfur cycling likely obscures dynamic biologically-driven iron redox cycling in contemporary methane seep environments. Environmental microbiology reports, 16 (3), doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.13263. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS, with support from SOI].

  • Betzler, C., Hübscher, C., Lindhorst, S., Lüdmann, T., Hincke, C., Beaman, R., and Webster, J. (2024). Seismic stratigraphic and sedimentary record of a partial carbonate platform drowning, Queensland Plateau, north-east Australia. Marine Geology, 470, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107255. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Betzler, C., Lindhorst, S., Hincke, C., Eisermann, J., Bialik, O., Petrovic, A., et al. (2024). Dismantling of an isolated tropical carbonate platform through flank collapse and canyon erosion, Coral Sea, Northeast Australia. Marine Geology, 475, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107361. [This article is OPEN ACCESS].

  • Bright, M., Gollner, S., de Oliveira, A., Espada-Hinojose, S. Fulford, A., Vincent Hughes, I., et al. (2024). Animal life in the shallow subseafloor crust at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Nature Comms. 15, 8466. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52631-9. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Burns, J., Becker, K., Casagrande, D., Daniels, J., Roberts, P., Orenstein, E., et al. (2024). An in situ digital synthesis strategy for the discovery and description of ocean live. Science Advances, 10(3), doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adj4960. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Burns, J., Daniels, J., Becker, K., Casagrande, D., Roberts, P., Orenstein, E., et al. (2024). Transcriptome sequencing of seven deep marine invertebrates. Nature Scientific Data, 11 (679), doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03533-4. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Chen, C., Jamieson, J., and Tunnicliffe, V. (2024). Hydrothermal vent fauna of the Galapagos Rift: updated species list with new records. Marine Biodiversity, 54 (16), doi: 10.1007/s12526-024-01408-w. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Ekins, M., and Wilson, N. (2024). New carnivorous sponges (Porifera: Cladorhizidae) from Western Australia, collected by a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV). Scientific Reports, 14, 22173, doi: 10/1038/s41598-024-72917-8. [This article has been published OPEN ACCESS courtesy of SOI].

  • Final Expedition Report: Australian Mesophotic Coral Examination

  • Final Expedition Report: Biodiverse Borderlands

  • Final Expedition Report: Deep Coral Diversity at Emperor Seamount Chain 2019

  • Final Expedition Report: Illuminating Biodiversity of the Ningaloo Canyons

  • Final Expedition Report: Northern Depths of the Great Barrier Reef

  • Final Expedition Report: Pinging in the New Year: Mapping the Tasman and Coral Seas

  • Final Expedition Report: Seafloor to Seabirds in the Coral Sea

  • Final Expedition Report: The Great Australian Deep-sea Coral and Canyon Adventure

  • Final Expedition Report: Visioning the Coral Sea Marine Park

  • Guraib, M. (2024). Deep-ocean macrofauna assemblages on ferromanganese and phosporite-rich substrates in the Southern California Borderland. M.S. Thesis, University of California San Diego, USA.

  • Horowitz, J., Opresko,D., Herrera, S., Hansel, C., Quattrini, A. (2024). Ameripathidae, a new family of antipatharian corals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia, Antipatharia). Zookeys, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1203.121411. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS, with support from SOI].

  • Julià-Miralles, M., Yarbuh, I., Spelz, R., Negrete-Aranda, R., Contreras, J., Fletcher, J., et al. (2024). Strain localization instabilities and the genesis of multiple axes of seafloor spreading in the Carmen basin, southern Gulf of California. International Journal of Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s00531-024-02426-6. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS, with support from SOI]

  • Kubik, B., and Holden, J. (2024). Non-thermodynamic factors affect competition between thermophilic chemolithoautotrophs from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Applied and Env. Microbiology, doi: 10.1128/aem.00292-24. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Peña-Montenegro, T., Kleindienst, S., Allen, A., Eren, A., McCrow, J., Arnold, J., Joy, S. (2024). Metatranscriptomic response of deep ocean microbial populations to infusions of oil and/or synthetic chemical dispersant. Appl. Env. Microbiology, doi: 10.1128/aem.01083-24. [This article is OPEN ACCESS].

  • Peña-Salinas, M., Speth, D., Utter, D., Spelz, R., Lim, S., Zierenberg, R., et al. (2024). Thermotogota diversity and distribution patterns revealed in Auka and JaichMaa ‘ja ‘ag hydrothermal vent fields in the Pescadero Basin, Gulf of California. Peer J Microbiology, 12, doi: 10.7717/peerj.17724. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS with support from SOI]. 

  • Pereira, O., Vlach, D., Bradley, A., Gonzalez, J., Mizell, K., and Levin, L. (2024). Invertebrate trophic structure on marine ferromanganese and phosphorite hardgrounds. Limn. and Ocean. 69 (7), doi: 10.1102/lno.12612. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCES].

  • Reolid, J., Bialik, O.M., Lindhorst, S., Eisermann, J.O., Petrovic, A., Hincke, C., Beaman, R.J., Webster, J.M., Betzler, C. (2024). A new type of Halimeda bioherm on the Queensland Plateau, NE Australia. Coral Reefs, 1-21. doi: 10.1007/s00338-024-02500-0. [This article has been published OPEN ACCESS].

  • Ricci, F., Leggat, W., Pasella, M., Bridge, T., Horowitz, J., Girguis, P. and Ainsworth, T. (2024). Deep sea treasures – Insights from museum archives shed light on coral microbial diversity within deepest ocean ecosystems. Heliyon, 10 (5), doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27513. This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS.

  • Taviani, M., Montagna, P., Hosie, A.,Castellan, G., Kemper, C., Foglini, F., McCulloch, M., and Trotter, J. (2024). Whale fall chemosymbiotic communities in a southwest Australian submarine canyon fill a distributional gap. Heliyon, 10(8), doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29206. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS with support from SOI].

     

  • Villalobos-Guerrero, T., Huč, S., Tilic, E., Hiley, A., Rouse, G. (2024). A remarkable new deep-sea nereidid (Annelida: Nereididae) with gills. PLoS ONE, 19(3), doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297961. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS with support from SOI].

  • 2023

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Dynamics of Sinking Microplastics

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Health Diagnostics of Deep-sea Coral

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Hydrothermal Vents of the Western Galapagos

  • 30 day Preliminary Cruise Report: Hydrothermal Vents of the Western Galapagos (Spanish)

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: In Search of Hydrothermal Lost Cities

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Octopus Odyssey & Octopus Odyssey (too)

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: The Underworld of Hydrothermal Vents

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Ultra Fine-scale Seafloor Mapping

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Ultra Fine-scale Seafloor Mapping (Spanish)

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Vertical Reefs of the Galapagos

  • 30 Day Preliminary Cruise Report: Vertical Reefs of the Galapagos (Spanish)

  • Breusing, C., Xiao, Y., Russel, S., Corbett-Detig, R., Li, S., Sun, J., et al. (2023). Ecological differences among hydrothermal vent symbioses may drive contrasting patterns of symbiont population differentiation. mSystems 8(4), doi: 10.1128/msystems.00284-23.  [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Carmignani, A., Radice, V., McMahon, K., Holman, A., Miller, K., Grice, K., and Richards, Z. (2023). Levels of autrophy and heterotrophy in mesophotic corals near the end photic zone. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1089746. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS, with support from SOI].

  • Chen, C., Jamieson, J., and Tunnicliffe, V. (2023). Hydrothermal vent fauna of the Galapagos Rift: Updated species list with new records. BioRxiv, preprint, doi: 10.1101/2023.11.28.568903. [This preprint article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Ekins, M., and Hooper, J. (2023). New carnivorous sponges from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia collected by ROV from the RV FALKOR. Zootaxa, doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5293.3.2.

  • Estapa, M., Durkin, C., Slade, W., Huffard, C., O’Neill, S., and Omand, M. (2023). A new, global optical sediment trap calibration. LImnol. Oceanogr. Methods. doi: 10.1002/lom3.10592. [This article has been published OPEN ACCESS].

  • Final Expedition Report: Designing the Future 2

  • Final Expedition Report: Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Pescadero Basin

  • Final Expedition Report: Studying the Sea Surface Microlayer 2

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