2018

  • 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.

  • Wurl, O., Mustaffa, N., and Striebel, M. (2018). Enrichment of extracellular carbonic anhydrase in the sea surface microlayer and its effect on air-sea CO2 Exchange, Oral Presentation at Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR, USA.

  • Zhang, W., Tian, R.-M., Sun, J., Bougouffa, S., Ding, W.,  Cai,  L, Lan, Y., Tong, H., Li, Y., Jamieson, A., Bajic, V.-B., Drazen, J., Bartlett, D., and P.-Y. Qian. (2018). Genome reduction in Psychromonas species within the gut of an amphipod from the Ocean’s deepest point. mSystems 3(3), doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00009-18.  [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Zhang, W., Watanabe, H., Ding, W., Lan, Y., Tian, R-M., Sun, J., et. al. (2018). Gut Microbial Divergence between Two Populations of the Hadal Amphipod Hirondellea gigas. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 85(1), e02032-18, doi: 10.1128/AEM.02032-18. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

    • 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].

  • Bach, M. (2017). Nitrogen Sources and Trophic Dynamic in Zooplankton of the South China Sea. MS Thesis, University of Rostock.

  • 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].

  • Gerringer, M., Linley, T., Jamieson, A., Goetze, E., and J. Drazen. (2017). Pseudoliparis swirei sp. nov.: A Newly-discovered Hadal Snailfish (Scorpainiformes: Liparidae) from the Mariana Trench, Zootaxa 4358:1, doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.1.7. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Gerringer, M., Popp, B., Linley, T., Jamieson, A., and J. Drazen. (2017) Feeding Ecology of Hadal Fishes; Comparative Analyses of Stomach Contents and Compound Specific Stable Isotopes of Individual Amino Acids. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 121:110-120, doi:10.1016.j.dsr.2017.01.003. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

  • Jamieson, A., Malkocs, T., Piertney, S., Fujii, T., and Z. Zhang. (2017). Bioaccumulation of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Deepest Ocean Fauna. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1:0051, doi:10.1038/s41559-016-0051. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Khanna, P., Droxler, A., Nittrouer, J., Tunnell, Jr., J., and Shirley, T. (2017).  Coralgal Reef Morphology Records Punctuated Sea-level Rise During the Last Deglaciation. Nature Communications 8, 1046 (2017), doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00966-x.  [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Khanna, P., Droxler, A., Nittrouer, J., Tunnell, W., and T. Shirley. (2017). Late Quaternary Transgressive Coralgal Reef Growth Along the South Texas Continental Shelf Edge. Oral Presentation at Industry Rice Earth Science Symposium, Houston, TX, USA.

  • Knorlein, B. (2017). From Sea to Space: Application of Virtual Reality in Science. Invited Lecture to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.

  • Lan, Y., Sun, J., Tain, R., Bartlett, D., Li, R., Wong, Y., Zhang, W., Qiu, J., Xu, T., He, L., Tabata, H., and P. Qian.  (2017).  Molecular Adaptation in the World’s Deepest-living Animal: Insights from Transcriptome Sequencing of the Hadal Amphipod Hirondellea gigas.  Mol. Ecol. 26:14,  dOI: 10.1111/mec.14149.

  • Linley, T., Stewart, A., McMillan, P., Clark, M., Gerringer, M., Drazen, J., Fujii, T.,  and A. Jamieson. (2017). Bait Attending Fishes of the Abyssal Zone and Hadal Boundary: Community Structure, Functional Groups and Species Distribution in the Kermadec, New Hebrides and Mariana Trenches. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research 121:38-53, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2016.12.009.

  • Ljubešić, Z. (2017). Development of Methods for the Phytoplankton Research in the Adriatic Sea. Invited Lecture to Croatian Academy for Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, CROATIA.

  • Ljubešić, Z.. (2017). From Microscopes to Telescopes. Invited Lecture to University of Zagreb, Zagreb, CROATIA.

  • During our transit from Guam to Honolulu, Artist-at-Sea Lucy Bellwood created this comic to explore the wonders of ocean mapping on R/V Falkor with the world. You can download a copy here: Mappin’ The Floor: A Scientific High-Seas Adventure by Lucy Bellwood.

  • Mustaffa, N., Striebel, M., and O. Wurl. (2017). Enrichment of extracellular carbonic anhydrase in the sea surface microlayer and its effect on air-sea CO2 exchange. Geophyiscal Research Letters, 44 (22), doi: 10.1002/2017GL075797. [ This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

  • Nauels, A., Rogelj, J., Schleussner, C., Meinshausen, M., and Mengel, M. (2017). Linking Sea Level Rise and Socioeconomic Indicators Under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways.  Env. Research Letters, 12 (11), doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa92b6.