Over a 3-year period, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
organized and implemented a Pacific-wide field campaign entitled CAPSTONE: Campaign …

Motivation Traits are increasingly being used to quantify global biodiversity patterns, with
trait databases growing in size and number, across diverse taxa. Despite growing interest in …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) sequencing has emerged as a valuable tool for biodiversity
surveys, allowing identification of taxa that may be missed by more traditional methods …

Methane seeps provide biogeochemical and microbial heterogeneity in deep-sea habitats.
In the Northeast (NE) Pacific Ocean recent studies have found an abundance of seeps at …

Methane seep habitats are widespread chemosynthesis-based ecosystems that span
continental margins and interact with surrounding marine systems. With many of these …

This paper discusses and illustrates the 23 primnoid species collected by the R/V Okeanos
Explorer in the US marine protected areas in the central and western Pacific, ranging from …

In this perspective, I reflect on my path to the deep sea, a field, and ecosystem that are often
hard to access. Growing up in a coastal town, the seashore was my playground, but it was …

Aphyonids are poorly-known, live-bearing brotulas (Ophidiiformes, Bythitidae) that until
recently were considered to be in a distinct family, Aphyonidae. A single, ca. 9.3 cm total …

We describe modern ocean floor biological trends employing exploratory Remotely
Operated Vehicle (ROV) Hercules dives in the Santa Barbara Basin, California, USA …

The ophidiid genus Porogadus occurs between 800 and 5300 m in the tropical and
subtropical world oceans. Fifteen nominal species have been described since 1878 and …