Outreach
Online Expeditions
February 2023
What kinds of Critters live in OMZs?
Grade schoolers in the classrooms of Michele Stroud in Atlanta learned about the larvae of deep-sea fish, lobsters, and crabs and their challenges navigating through the huge expanses of low oxygen/anoxic waters of the ETNP! They talked with shipboard scientists about what causes OMZs to form and how humans might act to keep them from expanding/intensifying
July 14, 2011
Of Predators, Prey, and Petroleum
Single-celled organisms may dramatically affect how much oil gets eaten by bacteria—but not in the way you might guess at first.
Source: Oceanus Magazine
From Oceanus Magazine
Mediterranean Deep Brines
Dive and Discover Expedition 14
Venture into one of the world’s oldest oceans—the Mediterranean Sea—to look for life in some of the most hostile environments on Earth.
Publicity
Featured in Oceanus magazine Spring 2021 “Marine Extremes” issue. Extreme Measures: Superpowered technologies expand our reach to the worlds most challenging environments. Vol 56(1).
Open Access Government, “Deep ocean drilling: Revealing earth history, geological processes and a deep biosphere” January 2021, https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?EID=abe4b9c2-2198-40d4-9b41-c05d7aaff94f
Jefferson Exchange, Oregon: https://www.ijpr.org/show/the-jefferson-exchange/2020-11-02/tue-8-am-a-trip-below-the-ocean-floor-to-search-for-microbes
Facebook: Exploring the Seafloor: Banner: https://www.facebook.com/futurumcareers, Article: https://www.facebook.com/futurumcareers/posts/724771874793262 and https://www.facebook.com/futurumcareers/posts/724773944793055
Linkedin: Exploring the Seafloor: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6711549944454488064, https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6711552244052987904, https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6711552488169861120
Twitter: Exploring the Seafloor: https://twitter.com/FUTURUMCareers/status/1305835733555589121, https://twitter.com/FUTURUMCareers/status/1305834703748988928, https://twitter.com/FUTURUMCareers/status/1305834352077664258
Futurum, Inspiring the next generation, “Life in the middle (and on the bottom) of the ocean” https://futurumcareers.com/why-is-it-important-to-study-life-in-the-deep-sea-and-even-below-the-seafloor (Aug. 2020) https://futurumcareers.com/Issue-06.pdf
New York Times, “These Microbes May Have Survived 100 Million Years Beneath the Seafloor” commentary on another team’s work, July 2020.
Gizmodo, https://gizmodo.com/life-is-thriving-2-600-feet-beneath-the-seafloor-1842475769 (March 2020)
Pour la Science (French Scientific American) (March 2020)
Naked Scientists Science Podcasts and Science Radio Shows, University of Cambridge, https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked-scientists-podcast/coronavirus-explained-how-covid-19-works (March 2020)
Nature News 12 March, 2020. “These microbial communities have learned to live at Earth’s most extreme reaches”
Natureresearch Behind the Paper Blog: 2020 Ocean drilling gives us insights into life in rocks deep below the seafloor (March 2020)
Sciencealert.com, 2020, “Microbial life has been found deep in Earth’s crust beneath the ocean floor” https://www.sciencealert.com/microbes-survive-in-the-extremes-of-earth-s-lower-crust-by-recycling
BBC Radio Science in Action, 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csym37
El Mundo 2020 “Encuentran sorprendentes formas de vida ocultas bajo la corteza marina”
American Geophysical Union EoS
Ocean Sciences News “Microbes Discoved Hanging Out in the Ocean’s Crust” 2020, https://eos.org/articles/microbes-discovered-hanging-out-in-the-oceans-crust
International Ocean Discovery Program JOIDES Resolution Expedition 385 highlights 2019: https://joidesresolution.org/ginny-edgcomb-searching-for-the-fungi-of-guaymas/
BBC Radio “Keep Digging” 2017. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kv3y6
Highlighted in 2015 “Women in Oceanography: A Decade Later” http://www.tos.org/oceanography/archive/27-4_supplement.html
The Harshest Habitats on Earth, Astrobiology
Magazine, Extreme Life News posted 9/24/13.
WHOI Press Release, “Fungi Flourish Below the Seafloor” (March 1st, 2013)
WHOI Press Release, “Deep Biosphere Harbors Active, Growing Communities of Microorganisms” (June 12th, 2013)
Highlighted in National Geographic online report on Falkland Islands Symposium hosted by the British Embassy and the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (January, 2015): http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/22/whats-living-under-these-elephant-seals/