Publications

Explore the list of manuscripts, books and book chapters, theses, and dissertations from the data and samples collected aboard Nautilus.

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Expedition leg

2023

Escobar-Briones, E., Álvarez-Sánchez, León Felipe (2023). Citizen Science for Deep Ocean Biodiversity: A Crowdsourcing Tool in Support of Conservation. Mexican Fauna in the Anthropocene : 581–593. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-17277-9…

Mayer, L. (2023). Uncrewed surface systems facilitating a new era of global ocean exploration. The International Hydrographic Review https://ihr.iho.int/articles/uncrewed-surface-systems-facil…

Rodríguez Flores, P.C., and Schnabel, K.E. (2023). New records and species of deep-sea squat lobsters (Galatheoidea, Munidopsidae) from the Hawaiian Archipelago: an integrative approach using micro-CT and barcodes. PeerJ https://peerj.com/articles/14956/#aff-1

Rodríguez-Flores, P.C., Seid, C.A., Rouse, G.W., Giribet, G. (2023). Cosmopolitan abyssal lineages? A systematic study of East Pacific deep-sea squat lobsters (Decapoda: Galatheoidea: Munidopsidae) . Invertebrate Systematics https://www.publish.csiro.au/is/pdf/IS22030

Sotomayor, A., Balbas, A., Konrad, K., Koppers, A.P.P., Konter, J.G., Wanless, V.D., Hourigan, T.F., Kelley, C., and Raineault, N. (2023). New insights into the age and origin of two small Cretaceous seamount chains proximal to the Northwestern Hawaiian Ridge . Geosphere 19 (2): 383-405. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/19/2…

ten Brink, U., Chaytor, J. Flores; C., Wei; Y., Detmer, S., Lucas, L., Andrews, B., and Georgiopoulou, A. (2023). Seafloor Observations Eliminate a Landslide as the Source of the 1918 Puerto Rico Tsunami . Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/article-abstract/…

Wagner, D. (2023). New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The Ocean Exploration Trust 2022 Field Season. Oceanography 36 (1): 1-54. https://tos.org/oceanography/issue/volume-36-supplement-2

Wicksten, M.K., and Conway, K.W. (2023). The Chirostyloidea of the Northeastern Pacific: Host Associations, Range Extensions and a New Species (Decapoda: Anomura). Zootaxa https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5284.1.7

2022

Barnhill, KA. (2022). The Deep Sea and Me. ICES Journal of Marine Science 79 (7): 1996–2002.

Baumberger T., N. Buck, K. Roe, S. Seabrook, R. Embley, J. Beeson, A. Antriasian, C. Wilkinson S. Brown, R. Crawford, L. Bellucci-Ardor, N. Raineault (2022). Highlights from exploring and characterizing the Cascadia Margin methane seeps over the past 5 years. 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Beeson, J., T. Baumberger, S. Merle, N. Buck, K. Roe, A. Antriasian, R. Kane, K. Krasnosky, N. Raineault (2022). Initial Results from E/V Nautilus Expedition NA128 “Cascadia Margin Seep Exploration”: Cascadia Margin Mapping, High-Resolution ROV Multibeam, and Gas/Fluid Sampling . 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Bell, KLC., Chow JS, Hope A, Quinzin MC, Cantner KA, Amon DJ, Cramp JE, Rotjan RD, Kamalu L, de Vos A, Talma S, Buglass S, Wade V, Filander Z, Noyes K, Lynch M, Knight A, Lourenço N, Girguis PR, de Sousa JB, Blake C, Kennedy BRC, Noyes TJ and McClain CR (2022). Low-Cost, Deep-Sea Imaging and Analysis Tools for Deep-Sea Exploration: A Collaborative Design Study. Frontiers of Marine Science 9: 873700.

Cochrane LA, Kuhnz GR (2022). Physical, environmental, and substrate observations derived from underwater video collected offshore of south-central California in support of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Cal DIG I offshore alternative energy project. U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA.

Cook, M. (2022). Multi-scale knowledge and knowledge gaps in deep-sea mining regional environmental management planning.

Daylam C., Kesici NB, Mavruk S, Yüksek A (2022). Some observations on the ichthyofauna of the Finike (Anaximander) Seamounts, the eastern Mediterranean. Journal of the Black Sea/Mediterranean Environment 28(2): 180-194.

Grassian B. (2022). Acoustic and Optical Imaging Techniques for Characterizing Animal Distributions in the Pelagic Ocean.

Heffron, E. (2022). Nautilus Pacific Mapping Operations 2021 - 2022: What is Mapped, How Much are we Contributing, and Why is this Such a Hard Question?. Seabed 2030 South & West Regional Mapping Community Meeting

Hughes IV, Hiley AS, Rouse GW (2022). The mitochondrial genome of the deep-sea axiid shrimp, Eiconaxius baja (Decapoda: Axiidae). Journal of the Black Sea/Mediterranean Environment 28(2): 127-138 .

Kilias, SP., Zyglou N, Nomikou P, Keith M, Zack T, Smith. DJ, Polymenakou P (2022). Fluid-mediated coupled dissolution-reprecipitation (CDR) reaction drives gold remobilization in shallow-water massive sulfides at the Kolumbo arc-volcano, Greece. 16th Biennal Meeting of the Society for Geology of Applied Mineral Deposits

Krasnosky KE., Roman, C. (2022). A massively parallel implementation of Gaussian process regression for real time bathymetric modeling and simultaneous localization and mapping. Field Robotics. Field Robotics 2: 940-970.

Kuhnz LA., Gilbane L, Cochrane GR, Paull CK (2022). Multi-factor biotopes as a method for detailed site characterization in diverse benthic megafaunal communities and habitats in deep-water off Morro Bay, California. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Le, J.T., Peter Girguis, Lisa A.Levin (2022). Using deep-sea images to examine ecosystem services associated with methane seeps. Marine Environmental Research 181: 105740.

Mah, C. (2022). New Genera, Species and Occurrences of Deep-Sea Asteroidea (Valvatacea, Forcipulatacea, Echinodermata) collected from the North Pacific Ocean by the CAPSTONE Expedition. Zootaxa 5164 (1): 2-75.

Matabos M., Barreyre T, Juniper SK, Cannat M, Kelley D, Alfaro-Lucas JM, Chavagnac V, Colaço A, Escartin J, Escobar E, Fornari D, Hasenclever J, Huber JA, Laës-Huon A, Lanteri N, Levin LA, Mihaly S, Mittelstaedt E, Pradillon F, Sarradin P-M, Sarrazin J, Tomasi B, Venkatesan R, Vic C (2022). Integrating Multidisciplinary Observations in Vent Environments (IMOVE): Decadal Progress in Deep-Sea Observatories at Hydrothermal Vents. Frontiers of Marine Science 9: 866422.

Molodtsova TN, Opresko DM, Wagner D (2022). Description of a new and widely distributed species of Bathypathes (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia: Schizopathidae) previously misidentified as Bathypathes alternata Brook, 1889. PeerJ : 10:e12638.

Moran, K. (2022). “WOAH, what is that!?” - Increasing Student Access to Deep Sea Exploration through Language & Creativity.. National Marine Educators Association

Mulder, T., T Cavailhes, V Hanquiez, H Gillet, A. Recouvreur, N Fabregas (2022). Giant deep submarine depressions: A combined dissolution-mechanical process along carbonate margins. GSA Bulletin

Nomikou P., Polymenakou, Paraskevi N; Rizzo, Andrea Luca; Petersen, Sven; Hannington, Mark; Kilias, Stephanos Pantelis; Papanikolaou, Dimitris; Escartin, Javier; Karantzalos, Konstantinos; Mertzimekis, Theodoros J (2022). SANTORY: Santorini’s Seafloor Volcanic Observatory. Frontiers in Marine Science 9: 796376.

Orcutt B, K Mizell, A Gartman, C Kelley, R Kosaki, N Raineault (2022). Microbial ecosystem services and associates with ferromanganese crusts on seamounts of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument: Initail Results. 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Pihana, H., Lorenzo-Elarco J (2022). HĀNAU KA PALIHOA, LELE! The story, genealogy, and process of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Native Hawaiian Cultural Working Group Nomenclature Subcommittee. Parks Stewardship Forum 38(2): 325-341.

Pockalny, R., S Auscavitch, K Konrad, M Everett, E Miller, B Scott, A Fundis, M Cook, E Heffron, L Gee, R Kane, D Wagner (2022). Mapping and Exploration of Deep Seamounts around Johnston Atoll: 2021 Expeditions aboard E/V Nautilus. Deep-Sea Life 19: 11-12.

Quiocho, K., A Fundis, K Morishige, JH Lorenzo-Elarco, H Pihana, A Anderson, M Cook (2022). Re-envisioning the Collective Voyage for Ocean Exploration. White Paper for the 2022 National Ocean Exploration Forum

Ringham, M. (2022). High resolution, in-situ studies of seawater carbonate chemistry and carbon cycling in coastal systems using CHANnelized Optical System II.

Robinson, H. (2022). Diversity and distribution of bacterial symbionts in Vesicomyid clams along the Cascadia Margin.

Speth, DR., FB Yu, SA Connon, S Lim, JS Magyar, ME Peña-Salinas, SR Quake, VJ Orphan (2022). Microbial communities of Auka hydrothermal sediments shed light on vent biogeography and the evolutionary history of thermophily. The ISME Journal 16: 1750-1764.

Wagner, D. (2022). E/V Nautilus seafloor mapping: recent accomplishments and what is next. Map the Gaps Symposium

Wagner, D. (2022). E/V Nautilus mapping in the Pacific: Recent accomplishments & what is next. NOAA Hydrographic Services Review Panel Meeting

Wishnak, S., J Flanders, E Crum, C Wiener (2022). New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The Ocean Exploration Trust, NOAA Ocean Exploration, and Schmidt Ocean Institute 2021 Field Season. Oceanography Supplement 34: 1.

Wu, F., DR Speth, A Philosof, A Crémière, A Narayanan, RA Barco, SA Connon, JP Amend, IA Antoshechkin, VJ Orphan (2022). Unique mobile elements and scalable gene flow at the prokaryote–eukaryote boundary revealed by circularized Asgard archaea genomes. Nature Microbiology 7: 200-212.

Zaccaria, J., M Cook, D Wagner (2022). Combining technology and outreach for ocean exploration. Ocean Robotics Planet 32: 51-54.

2021

Franke M, Geier B, Hammel JU, Dubilier N, Leisch N. (2021). Coming together—symbiont acquisition and early development in deep-sea bathymodioline mussels. Proc. R. Soc.

Hu, S. K., Herrera, E. L., Smith, A. R., Pachiadaki, M. G., Edgcomb, V. P., Sylva, S. P., Chan, E. W., Seewald, J. S., German, C. R., & Huber, J. A. (2021). Protistan grazing impacts microbial communities and carbon cycling at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (29): e2102674118.

Merle, S. G., Embley, R. W., Johnson, H. P., Lau, T.-K., Phrampus, B. J., Raineault, N. A., & Gee, L. J. (2021). Distribution of Methane Plumes on Cascadia Margin and Implications for the Landward Limit of Methane Hydrate Stability. Frontiers in Earth Science

Wicksten, M. K. (2021). Observations in life of Eiconaxius baja Kensley, 1996 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Axiidea, Axiidae), a sponge commensal lobster. Crustacean Research 50: 103-106.

Wicksten, M. K. (2021). First record of a thread-leg shrimp (Decapoda: Caridea: Nematocarcinidae) from California. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 131 (1): 128-130.

Wicksten, M.K., Bingo, S. (2021). Platymaia Miers, 1885 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Inachidae) can swim. Journal of Crustacean Biology

Zvi-Kedem, T., Shemesh, E., Tchernov, D., & Rubin-Blum, M. (2021). The worm affair: Genetic diversity in two species of symbionts that co-occur in tubeworms from the Mediterranean Sea. bioRxiv

2020

Auscavitch, S. (2020). Deep-sea coral biogeography and community structure in tropical seamount environments. Dissertation: Temple University

Auscavitch, S. R., Lunden, J. J., Barkman, A., Quattrini, A. M., Demopoulos, A. W. J., & Cordes, E. E. (2020). Distribution of scleractinian corals and stylasterid hydrocorals across abiotic environmental gradients on three seamounts in the Anegada Passage. PeerJ

Telepresence-enabled Exploration Workshops

The Ocean Exploration Trust, in partnership with the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, has hosted periodic workshops with members of the scientific community to identify and prioritize potential targets for telepresence-enabled exploration in Nautilus field program regions.