2019

  • Lim, J., Thornton B., and A. Prugel-Bennet. (2019). Unsupervised Clustering of Multi-resolution Seafloor Images for Efficient Scene Understanding, Oral Presentation at Marine Imaging Workshop, British Columbia, Canada.

  • Michel, A. (2019). Laser-based Sensing in Aqueous Environments. Invited Seminar at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA.

  • Mirmalek, Z. (2019). Meshing Remote and Co-Located Work: Human-Technology Relationships in Space and Ocean Exploration. Oral Presentation at MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA.

  • Negrete-Aranda, R., et. al. (2019). First Heat Flow Measurements in the Auka and JaichMaa ja’ag vent fields, Pescadero Basin, Southern Gulf of California. Poster Presentation at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.

  • Oldham, V., et. al. (2019). Dissolved and Solid-phase Fe and Mn Speciation in Marine Sediments. Oral Presentation at Goldschmidt Meeting, Barcelona, Spain.

  • Oldham, V., et. al. (2019). On the Origin of Species: Why Mn Speciation Matters. Invited Seminar at University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, USA.

  • Orphan, V., et. al. (2019). Genomic Diversity and Microbial Activities Fueled by Deep Fluids. Poster Presentation at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.

  • Paduan, J., et. al. (2019). Mapping Pescadero Basin Hydrothermal Vent Fields at Multiple Scales. Poster Presentation at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.

  • Peoples, L., Grammatopoulou, E., Pombrol, M., Xu, X., Oladayo, O., Blanton, J., et. al. (2019). Microbial Community Diversity within Sediments from Two Geographically Separated Hadal Trenches. Front. Microbiol. Vol. 10, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00347.

  • Peoples, L., Norenberg, M., Price, D., McGoldrick. M., Novtony, M., Bochdansky, A., and Bartlett, D. (2019). A Full-ocean-depth Rated Modular Lander and Pressure-retaining Sampler Capable of Collecting Hadal-endemic Microbes under in situ Conditions. Deep Sea Research Part I, 143, 50-57, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2018.11.010.

  • Pinto, J. (2019). Networked Vehicle Systems: From Vision to Reality. Oral Presentation at International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan.

  • Pizarro, O. (2019). Autonomous Benthic Monitoring in Australia. Invited Presentation at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

  • Pizarro, O. (2019). Autonomous Benthic Monitoring in Australia. Invited Speaker at University of Porto, Port, Portugal.

  • Pizarro, O. (2019). Benthic Imaging and Mapping Assisted by Autonomous Machines. Oral Presentation at Marine Imaging Workshop, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

  • Pizarro, O. (2019). Field Trials of Multi-vehicle Adaptive Robotic Surveys for Seafloor Mapping and Characterization. Oral Presentation at Geohab Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia.

  • Preston, V. (2019). Adaptive Sampling of Transient Environmental Phenomenon with Autonomous Mobile Platforms. MS Thesis, MIT-WHOI Joint Program, MA, USA.

  • Ribas Ribas, M., et. al. (2019). The Importance of the Non-zero Intercept on the Gas Transfer Velocity Parameterization on Global Ocean-atmosphere CO2 fluxes. Oral Presentation at European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium, Milano, Italy.

  • Ribas-Ribas, M., Battaglia, G., Humphreys, M. and O. Wurl. (2019). Impact of Nonzero Intercept Gas Transfer Velocity Parameterizations on Global and Regional Ocean – Atmosphere CO2 Fluxes. Geosciences 2019, 9, 230, doi: 10.3390/geosciences9050230.

  • Sadekov, A., Lloyd, N.S., Misra, S., Trotter, J., D’Olivo, J., and M. McCulloch. (2019). Accurate and precise microscale measurements of boron isotope ratios in calcium carbonates using laser ablation multicollector-ICPMS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. doi:10.1039/C8JA00444G.

  • Sager, W., Huang, Y., Tominaga, M., Greene, J., Nakanishi, M., and J. Zhang. (2019). Oceanic plateau formation by seafloor spreading implied by Tamu Massif magnetic anomalies. Nature Geosciences, doi: 10.1038/s41561-019-0390-y.

  • Sahu, S. (2019). Characterizing the lowest oxygen waters on the southern continental shelf off Vancouver IslandMSc Thesis, University of British Columbia.

  • Stewart, L., Algar, C., Fortunato, C., Larson, B., Vallino, J., Huber, J., Butterfield, D., and J. Holden. (2019). Fluid geochemistry, local hydrology, and metabolic activity define methanogen community size and composition in deep-sea hydrothermal vents.  The ISME Journal, doi: 10.1038/s41396-019-0382-3.

  • Tabachnick, K., Fromont, J., Ehrlich, H., and L. Menshenina. (2019). Hexactinellida from the Perth Canyon, Eastern Indian Ocean, with description of five new species. Zootaxa 4661(1): 047-082, doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4664.1.2.

  • Thornton, B. (2019). 3D Visual Mapping and Rapid Understanding of Multi-hectare benthic habitats. Oral Presentation at Underwater Intervention, New Orleans, LA, USA.

  • Thornton, B. (2019). Adaptive Robotics 2.0. Oral Presentation at Oceanology International, San Diego, CA, USA.

  • Thornton, B., Yamada T., Bodenmann, A., Massot-Campus, M., Walker, J., et. al. (2019). 3D Visual Mapping and Rapid Understanding of Multi-hectare Benthic Habitats. Oral Presentation at Marine Autonomy Technology Showcase, Southampton, UK.

  • Trembath-Reichert, E., Butterfield, D., and J. Huber. (2019). Active subseafloor microbial communities from Mariana back-arc venting fluids share metabolic strategies across different thermal niches and taxa. The ISME Journal, doi: 10.1028/s41396-019-0431-y.

  • Trotter, J., Pattiaratchi, C., Montagna, P., Taviani, M., Falter, J., Thresher, R., Hosie, A., Haig, D., Foglini, F., Hua, Q. and M. McCulloch. (2019). First ROV Exploration of the Perth Canyon: Canyon Setting, Faunal Observations, and Anthropogenic Impacts. Front. Mari. Sci, 6:173, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00173. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Truelove, N.Andruszkiewicz, E.Block, B. (2019). A rapid environmental DNA method for detecting white sharks in the open oceanMethods Ecol Evol. 101128– 1135https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13201.

  • Walcutt, N., Knorlein, B., Sgouros, T., Cetinic, I., and Omand, M. (2019). Virtual Reality and Oceanography: Overview, Applications, and Perspective. Front. Mari. Sci. 6:644, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00644.

  • Walker, J., Thornton, B., Ruhl, H., Huvenne, V., and A. Prugel-Bennet. (2019). The Automation of Extracting Useful Statistics from Seafloor Imagery: A New Workflow. Oral Presentation at Marine Imaging Workshop, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

  • Walker, J., Yamada, T., Prugel-Bennett, A., and B. Thornton. (2019). The Effect of Physics-based Corrections and Data Augementation of Transfer Learning for Segmentation of Benthic Imagery.  2019 IEEE Underwater Technology, 1-8, doi: 10.1109/UT.2019.8734463

  • Walker, S., Baker, E., Lupton, J., and J. Resing. (2019). Patterns of Fine Ash Dispersal Related to Volcanic Activity at West Mata Volcano, NE Lau Basin. Front. Mar. Sci., 6:593, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00593.

     

  • Weber, S., Subramaniam, A., Montoya, J., Doan-Nhu, H., Nguyen-Ngoc, L, Dippner, J., and Voss, M. (2019). Habitat Delineation in Highly Variable Marine Envrionments. Front. Mar. Sci., Vol. 6, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00112. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Williams, S. (2019). Challenges in Deploying Robust Autonomy for Robotic Exploration in Marine Environments. Oral Presentation at International Conference on Robotics and Systems’ Workshop on Informed Scientific Sampling in Large-scale Outdoor Environments, Macau, China.

  • Williams, S. (2019). Challenges in Deploying Robust Autonomy for Robotic Exploration in Marine Environments. Oral Presentation at Pacific International Maritime Conference, Sydney, Australia.

  • Williams, S. (2019). High-resolution Imaging in Marine Habitats Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. Oral Presentation at Building Transparent Global Oceans Community Workshop, Qingdao, China.

  • Williams, S. (2019). Marine Surveillance and Undersea Autonomy. Oral Presentation at Defence Innovation Network Workshop on Marine Surveillance and Undersea Autonomy, Wollongong, Australia.

  • Williams, S. (2019). Robots in the Wild: Challenges in Deploying Robust Autonomy for Robotic Exploration. Oral Presentation at Robotics: Science and Systems Robots in the Wild Workshop, Freiburg, Germany.

  • Wurl, O., et. al. (2019). Cyanobacteria Surface Blooms: Inhibition of Evaporation Mimics Regions of Participation. Oral Presentation at European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium, Milano Italy.

  • Wurl, O., Landing, W., Mustaffa, N. I. H., Ribas-Ribas, M., Witte, C., and C. Zappa. (2019). The ocean’s skin layer in the tropics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124, doi: 10.1029/2018/JCO14021

  • Zhang, Y., Ryan, J., Kieft, B., Hobson, B., McEwen, R., Godin, M., Harvey, J., Barone, B., Bellingham, J., Birch, J., Scholin, C., and Chavez, F. (2019). Targeted Sampling by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. Front. Mar. Sci. 6:415, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00415.

  • 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 Cruise Report: Filling in the Gaps

  • 30 day Preliminary Cruise Report: Hunting Bubbles

  • 30 day Preliminary 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.