Research

We are pleased to announce not only a new paper but also the availability of new data for megafauna at inactive sulfides near the East Pacific Rise 9 50 N, deep-sea hydrothermal vent field: • Meneses, M. J., Beaulieu, S. E., Best, A. C., Dykman, L. N., Mills, S. W., Wu, J.-N., & Mullineaux, L.…

I served as Documentation Lead for a cruise in October 2023 that headed south from Woods Hole to the new location of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Pioneer Array in the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB). See our expedition blog https://www2.whoi.edu/site/ooi-expedition/pioneer-mab-at-sea-tests/ Our cruise report will be posted at OOI’s Alfresco repository under Coastal Pioneer MAB Array >…

We are pleased to announce not only a new paper but also the availability of new data for deep-sea larvae collected near three deep-sea hydrothermal vent fields [East Pacific Rise 9 50 N, Mariana Back-Arc Snail (and Archaean), and Pescadero Basin Auka]: Tyler J. Carrier, Stace E. Beaulieu, Susan W. Mills, Lauren S. Mullineaux, and…

We are pleased to announce the availability of two decades of macrofauna data from colonization surfaces deployed at the East Pacific Rise 9 50 N hydrothermal vent field. Species and morphogroups were matched to equal or lowest level taxon in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). We provide 3536 machine-readable counts of taxon-resolved macrofauna…

I am co-PI on a new research project funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to improve our nation’s response to harmful algal blooms (HABs). I’ll be working with Heidi Sosik @ WHOI and collaborating with the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS), Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System (CeNCOOS), University…

Thrilled to announce the availability of the sFDvent global‐scale trait database for deep‐sea hydrothermal vent animal species. Our article is available open access in Global Ecology and Biogeography (https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12975), and our data tables are available in Dryad (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cn2rv96). It was such a pleasure to work with the lead authors and working group chairs Abbie Chapman…

The 2018 AGU Fall Meeting brings over 25,000 Earth and ocean scientists to Washington, DC. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to share research from two NSF-funded projects (posters linked below) and to serve at ESIP’s Data FAIR Help Desk. The Data FAIR is a week of events for researchers to engage with informatics…

Exploring the Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents in a Metacommunity Framework, Front. Mar. Sci., 21 February 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00049

New peer-reviewed article, June 2017 Based on Session at the AAAS 2017 Annual Meeting Also: see NBC News, February 2017

  Press release, March 2017 A New Long-Term Ecological Research Site Announced for the Northeast U.S. Shelf