2021 Publications

Anderson, M., Norris-Julseth, C., Rubin, K., Haase, K., Hannington, M., Baxter, A., and Stewart, M. (2021). Geologic and Structural Evolution of the NE Lau Basin, Tonga: Morphotectonic Analysis and Classification of Structures Using Shallow Seismicity. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9:665185, doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.665185. [This article was published as OPEN ACCESS with support from SOI]. 

Beaman, R. (2021) Schmidt Ocean Institute R/V Falkor Australia Campaign 2020-2021. Conference Paper, Sub-Committee on Regional Undersea Mapping, General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans, Virtual from Paris, France.

Breusing, C., Johnson, S., Mitarai, S., Beinart, R. and Tunnicliffe, V. (2021). Differential Patterns of Connectivity in Western Pacific Hydrothermal Vent Metapopulations: A Comparison of Biophysical and Genetic Models. Evolutionary Applications, 00, 1-14, doi: 10.1111/eva.13326. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

Calder, D., and Watling, L. (2021). Report on Hydrozoans (Cnidaria), excluding Stylasteridae, from the Emperor Seamounts, western North Pacific Ocean.  Zootaxa, 4950(2), doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4950.2.1.  [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

De Oliveira, A., Mitchell, J., Girguis, P., Bright, M. (2021). Novel Insights on Obligate Symbiont Lifestyle and Adaptation to Chemosynthetic Environment as Revealed by the Giant Tubeworm Genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 6:msab347, doi: 10.1093/molbev/msab347.  [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

Dippner, J., Weber, S., Subramaniam, A. (2021). Impact of climate variability of the Western Tropical Pacific on maximum salinity water in the South China Sea. Ocean Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s10236-021-01481-w.

Durkin, C., Buesseler, K., Cetinić, I., Estapa, M., Kelley, R., and Omand, M. (2021). A Visual Tour of Carbon Export by Sinking Particles. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35(10), doi: 10.1029/2021GB006985. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

Fortunato, C., Butterfield, D., Larson, B., Lawrence-Slavas, N., Algar, C., Zeigler Allen, L., et. al. (2021). Seafloor Incubation Experiment with Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Fluid Reveals Effect of Pressure adn Lag Time on Autotrophic Microbial Communities. Microbial Ecology, 87(9), doi: 10.1128/AEM.00078-21. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

Gauthier, A., Chandler, C., Poli, V., Gardner, F., Tekiau, A., Smith, R., et al. (2021). Deep-sea microbes as tools to refine the rules of innate immune pattern recognition. Science Immunology, 6(57), doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.abe0531.

Gerringer, M., Dias, A., von Hagel, A., Orr, J., Summers, A., and Farina, S. (2021). Habitat influences skeletal morphology and density in the snailfishes (family Liparidae). Frontiers in Zoology, 18(16), doi: 10.1186/s12983-021-00399-9. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS with support from SOI].

Gerringer, M., Linley, T., and Nielsen, J. (2021). Revision of the depth record of bony fishes with notes on hadal snailfishes (Liparidae, Scorpaeniformes) and cusk eels (Ophidiidae, Ophidiiformes). Marine Biology, 168, 167, doi: 10.1007/s00227-021-03950-8. [This article is published OPEN ACCESS]. 

Giguere, T. and Tunnicliffe, V. (2021).  Beta diversity differs among hydrothermal vent systems: Implications for conservation. PLOS ONE 16(8), doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256637. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS with support from SOI].

Goffredi, S., Motooka, C., Fike, D., Gusmao, L., Tilic, E., Rouse, G., and Rodriguez, E. (2021). Mixotrophic chemosynthesis in a deep-sea anemone from hydrothermal vents in the Pescadero Basin, Gulf of California. BMC Biology, 19(8), doi: 10.1186/s12915-020-00921-1. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

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.

Hoffert, M., Anderson, R., Reveillaud, J., Murphy, L, Stepanauskas, R., and Huber, J. (2021). Genomic Variation Influences Methanothermococcus Fitness in Marine Hydrothermal Vents. Front. Microbiol. 12:71490, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.714920. [This article was published as OPEN ACCESS with SOI’s support].

Jamieson, A., Linley, T., Eigler, S., and Macdonald, T. (2021). A Global Assessment of Fishes at Lowe Abyssal and Upper Hadal Depths (5000 to 8000 m). Deep-sea Research Part 1, 178, 103642,  doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103642. 

Jamieson, A., Stewart, H., Weston, J., and Bongiovanni, C. (2021). Hydrozoans, Scyphozoans, Larvaceans and Ctenophores Observed in situ at Hadal Depths. Journal of Plankton Research, 43(1):  20-32. doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbaa062. 

Jia, Y., Richard, K., and Annamalai, H. (2021). The Impact of Vertical Resolution in Reducing Biases in Sea Surface Temperature in a Tropical Pacific Ocean Model. Ocean Modelling, 157, doi: 10.1016/j.ocemodel.2020.101722.  [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

Johnson, A. (2021). Bathymetric Exploration of the Tasman and Coral Seas aboard the R/V Falkor. Quaternary Australasia, 38(1), 11-13, doi: 10.3316/informit.891792655549501. 

Kelly, S., Waterhouse, A., and Savage, A. (2021).  Global Dynamics of the Stationary M2 Mode-1 Internal Tide, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, doi: 10.1029/2020GL091692.  [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

Kwiecinski, J. and Babbin, A. (2021). A High-resolution Atlas of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zones. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35, doi: 10.1029/2021GB007001. 

Loranger, S., Barclay, D., and Buckingham, M. (2021). Implosion in the Challenger Deep. Oceanography, 34: 156-165, doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2021.201.  [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

Marcon, Y., Kelley, D., Thornton, B., Manalang, D., and Bohrmann, G. (2021). Variability of Natural Methane Bubble Release at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, doi: 10.1029/2021GC009894. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

Marlow, J., Hoer, D., Jungbluth, S., Reynard, L, Gartman, A., Chavez, M., et. al. (2021). Carbonate-hosted Microbial Communities are Prolific and Pervasive Methane Oxidizeres at Geologically Diverse Marine Methane Seep Sites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(25), doi: 10.1073/pnas.2006857118. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].

McNeil, M. (2021). No Pandemic-pause for Multi-disciplinary Reef Exploration in 2020. Reef in Review, 50, 8-10. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

Michel, A., Preston, P., Fauria, V., and Nicholson, D. (2021). Observations of Shallow Methane Bubble Emissions from Cascadia Margin. Front. In Earth Sci., 9, 285, doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.613234. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS].

Negrete-Aranda, R., Neumann, F., Contreras, J., Harris, R., Spelz, R., Zierenberg, R., and Caress, D. (2021). Transport of Heat by Hydrothermal Circulation in a Young Rift Setting: Observations from the Auka and JaichMaa Ja’ag’ Vent Field in the Pescadero Basin, Southern Gulf of California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, doi: 10.1029/2021JB022300.

Pinto, J., Costa, M., Lima, K., Dias, P., Pereira, J., Riberio, M., et al. (2021). To Boldly Dive Where No One Has Gone Before: Experiments in Coordinated Robotic Ocean Exploration. Conference Paper, International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-71151-1_42. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS].  

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.

Rahlff, J., Stolle, C., Giebel, H., Mustaffa, N., Wurl, O., and Herlemann, D. (2021). Sea Foams are Ephemeral Hotspots for Distinctive Bacterial Communities Contrasting Sea-surface Microlayer and Underlying Surface Water. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 97(4), doi: 10.1093/fiab035. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

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].

Speth, D., Yu, F., Connon, S., Lim, S., Magyar, J., Pena, M. et al. (2021). Microbial community of recently discovered Auka vent field sheds light on vent biogeography and evolutionary history of thermophily. BioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/2021.08.02.454472. [This article has been published sas OPEN ACCESS].

Swan, J., Jamieson, A., Linley, T., and Yancey, P. (2021).  Worldwide Distribution and Depth Limits of Decapod Crustaceans (Penaeoidea, Oplophoroidea) across the Abyssal-hadal Transition Zone of Eleven Subduction Trenches and Five Additional Deep-sea Features. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 41(1), doi: 10.1093/jcbiol/ruaa102. 

Thomas, E., Anderson, R., Li, V., Rogan, L., and Huber, J. (2021). Diverse Viruses in Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Fluids Have Restricted Dispersal across Ocean Basins. Geomicrobiology 6(3), doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00068-21. [This article is published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

Vega-Ramirez, L., Spelz, R., Negrete-Aranda, R., Neumann, F., Caress, D., Clague, D., et al. (2021). A New Method for Fault-scarp Detection using Linear Discriminant Analysis in High-resolution Bathymetry Data from the Alarcon Rise and Pescadero Basin. Tectonics, 40 (12), doi: 10.1029/2021TC006925.  

Walker, J., Prugel-Bennett, A., and Thornton, B. (2021). Towards Observation Condition Agnostic Fauna Detection and Segmentation in Seafloor Imagery for Biomass Estimation. Conference Technical Paper, OCEANS 2021, San Diego, CA, USA. 

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. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS with support from SOI].

Weber, S., Loick-Wilde, N., Montoya, J., Bach, M., Doan-Nhu, H., Subramaniam, A., et al. (2021). Environmental Regulation of the Nitrogen Supply, Mean Trophic Position, and Trophic Enrichment of Mesozooplankton in the Mekong River Plume and Southern South China Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 126, doi: 10.1029/2020JC017110. [This article has been published as OPEN ACCESS]. 

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.

2021 Presentations

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.

Beaman, R. (2021). Schmidt Ocean Institute R/V Falkor Australia Campaign 2020-2021. Oral Presentation. Queensland-Smithsonian Fellowship Speaker Series, Queensland Department of Environment and Science – Smithsonian Institution Conference, virtual. 

Beinart, R., (2021). Population Genomics Provide Insights into Symbiont Transmission and Local Adaptation in Hydrothermal Vent Snails, Invited Speaker, Interridge 2021 Webinar Series, virtual.

Beinart, R. (2021). The Impact of Microbial Symbionts on the Ecology and Evolution of Hydrothermal Vent Snails. Plenary Speaker, Annual Meeting of the American Malacological Society, virtual. 

Beinart, R. (2021). Using Population Structure and Host-symbiont Specificity to Inform Knowledge of Transmission Dynamics in two Obligate Marine Microbial Symbioses. Invited Distinguished Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Bacteriology, virtual.

Beinart, R. (2021). Using Population Structure and Host-symbiont Specificity to Inform Knowledge of Transmission Dynamics in two Obligate Marine Microbial Symbioses. Invited Seminar, Portland State University, Department of Biology, virtual.

Beinart, R. (2021). Using Population Structure and Host-symbiont Specificity to Inform Knowledge of Transmission Dynamics in two Obligate Marine Microbial Symbioses. Invited Keynote, Pioneer Valley Microbiology Symposium, virtual.

Borges de Sousa, J. (2021). Robotic Vehicle Systems for Novel Ocean Observation. Oral Presentation, National Science Foundation BLUE-UCI202 workshop, virtual.

Borges de Sousa, J. (2021). Sustainable Presence in the Atlantic? Yes, We Can. Oral Presentation, Atlantic International Research Centre, Faial, Portugal.

Borges de Sousa, J. (2021). Ocean Observation with Multi-Domain Robotic Vehicles: Current Trends and Future Developments. Oral Presentation, 9th International Workshop on Marine Technology, virtual.

Borges de Sousa, J. (2021). Networked Vehicle Systems for Ocean Observation. Keynote Speaker, Marine Autonomy and Technology Showcase, virtual.

Bradshaw, R. (2021). The Controls on the Life Cycle and Evolution of the Kenn Seamount, Coral Sea. Oral Presentation, The Geographical Society of New South Wales Annual Honours/Masters Conference, Wollongong, NSW, Australia. 

Brooke, B., and Nichol, S. (2021). Coral Sea Marine Survey, Oral Presentation, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia

DeAnda, V., Gong, Z., Langwig, M., Rambo, I., Shah, S., Teske, A., et al. (2021). A Map Carbon Flow of Carbon and Energy Through Deep Sea Sediment Microbial Communities. GRC Marine Microbes Conference, XXX. 

Hanson, N., Dufour, S., and Bates, A. (2021). Effects of Hydrothermal Vent Chemistry on Somatic and Reproductive Allocation in Symbiotic Alviniconcha hessleri. Poster Presentation, Deep-sea Biology Symposium, virtual.

Hanson, N., Dufour, S, and Bates, A. (2021). Effects of Hydrothermal Vent Chemistry on Reproductive Allocation in Punk-Rock Snails. Poster Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Malacological Society, virtual.

Horowitz, J. (2021). Recent Explorations of the depths of the Northern Great Barrier Reef, Guest Lecturer, Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand Inc., virtual. 

Huber, J. (2021). Microbial Life in Venting Fluids from Deep-sea Hydrothermal Systems. Guest Lecturer, University of Maryland, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, virtual.

Huber, J. (2021). Rocks, Fluids, and Life: Microbial Life in the Deep Sea. Guest Lecturer, Stockton University, Biology Department, virtual.

Huber, J. (2021). Ridges and Life. Oral Presentation, National Science Foundation GeoPRISMS Workshop: Extensional Processes Across Tectonic Settings and Time Scales – Planning for the Next Decade, virtual. 

Huber, J. (2021). Life in Earth’s Ocean and the Worlds Beyond. Oral Presentation, New Englad Ocean Science Education Collaborative’s 2021 Ocean Literacy Summit, virtual. 

Jamieson, J., Sanchez Mora, D., Peterkin, B., Barreyre, T., Escartin, J., and Cannat, M. (2021). Chemical Mass Balance, Depositional Efficiency, and Rates of Formation of Seafloor Massive Sulfide Deposits, Keynote speaker, Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Johnson, A., et al. (2021). Preliminary Interpretation of Multibeam Bathymetry R/V Falkor The Tasman and Coral Seas, Oral Presentation, GeoHab Conference, Canberra, Australia.

Johnson, A. (2021). Voyaging Aboard the R/V Falkor: Guyots and Reefs in the Tasmantid Seamount Chain. Oral Presentation, University of Queensland Centre for Marine Science Seminar Series, Brisbane, Australia.

Joye, S. (2021). Regulation and Dynamics of the Anaerobic Oxidation in Hydrothermally-impacted Sediments in the Guaymas Basin (Gulf of California). Invited Seminar Speaker, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.

Joye, S. (2021). From the Deepbiopshere to Hydrothermal Plumes – Microbial Activity and Diversity in Gulf of California Extreme Environments. Invited Seminar Speaker, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

Loranger, S. (2021). Comparison of Measured and Modeled Speed of Sound in the Challenger Deep.  Oral Presentation, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA.  

McNeil, M., Nothdurft, Lk, Webster, J., Brooke, B., and Beaman, R. (2021). Preliminary Exploration of the Southern Great Barrier Reef: Ice Age Submerged Paleoshorelines and Drowned Coral Reefs, Oral Presentation, Submerged Paleo Landscapes of the Southern Hemispheres SHINE 2021 Workshop, virtual.

Mizell, K., and Levin, L. (2021). Key Components of Marine Mineral-related Characterization Studies Learned from Collaborative Research on Mineral Systems in the Southern California Borderland. Oral Presentation, AGU Fall Meeting, virtual. 

Perez, R., Crémière, A., Wu, F., Speth, D., Schubotz, F., Magyar, J., et al. (2021). Characterization of the Archaeal Communities Involved in Methane and Hydrocarbon Oxidation within Hydrothermal Environments of the S. Pescadero Basin (Gulf of California). Oral Presentation, Goldschmidt Conference, virtual. 

Thoram, S., Sager, W., and Nakanishi, M. (2021). Improved Bathymetry Map of Southern Shatsky Rise, Northwest Pacific: Implications for Ocean Plateau Formation and Evolution. Poster Presentation, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA. 

Thornton, B. (2021). Remote Awareness of the Deep. Oral Presentation, Satellite Applications for the Future of our Seas Workshop, virtual.

Thornton, B. (2021). Re-imagining Seafloor Imaging. Keynote Address, Underwater Technology Symposium, virtual.

Tunnicliffe, V. and Giguère,T. (2021). Beta-diversity Metrics Assess Biodiversity Distribution in Hydrothermal Vent (and other) Deep-sea Ecosystems. Oral Presentation, Deep-sea Biology Symposium, Brest, France.

Walker, J., Prugel-Bennett, A., and Thornton, B. (2021). Towards Observation Condition Agnostic Fauna Detection and Segmentation in Seafloor Imagery for Biomass Estimation. Oral Presentation, Global Oceans 2021, San Diego, California, USA.

Student Thesis/Dissertations

Carmignani, A. (2021). An Investigation into the Biodiversity and Ecophysiology of Mesophotic Corals (Ashmore Reef). Honours Thesis, Curtin University. 

Montgomery, A. (2021). Novel Perspectives on Carbon Cycling in Extreme Environments. PhD Dissertation, University of Georgia.

Pruitt, J. (2021). Phylogeny of Ophryotrocha (Annelida: Dorvilleidae) Revisited, with Description of Six New Species from Eastern Pacific Seeps and Whalefalls. Master’s Thesis, University of California San Diego.

Yamada, T. (2021). Leveraging Domain Knowledge in Machine Learning for Seafloor Image Interpretation. PhD Dissertation, University of Southampton.