New paper for megafauna at inactive sulfides with data available in BCO-DMO

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. S. (2024). Vertical distributions of megafauna on inactive vent sulfide features correspond to their feeding modes. Marine Environmental Research, 200, 106649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106649

• Beaulieu, S., Meneses, M., Best, A., Dykman, L., Mills, S., Wu, J., Mullineaux, L. (2024) Megafauna counts by taxon in images collected during three surveys (December 25, 2019, April 7 and 9, 2021) with deep-submergence vehicles at inactive sulfide mounds on the East Pacific Rise. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2024-07-05 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.932975.1

We thank many people including Daniel Fornari, Karl Roberts and Andrew Sweetman, Rose Jones, Jason Sylvan, Amanda Achberger, and Margaret Tivey, Shawn Arellano and Costa Vetriani, the crews of the R/Vs Atlantis (AT42-21, AT50-06, AT50-20) and Revelle (RR2102), the crews of NDSF vehicles Sentry, Alvin, and Jason II, two anonymous reviewers for the paper and Amber York for the data package. Funding was provided from NSF OCE grants 1756339 to Sylvan, 1829773 to Mullineaux and Beaulieu, 1947735 to Mullineaux, 1949485 to Fornari, and 2152453 to Mullineaux and Beaulieu.