Region of working (refer to GOODS if possible, Fig 2 on poster)

kerry.howell@plymouth.ac.uk

Seamounts, continental slope, abyssal plain. Megafauna, macrofauna.

Deep-sea soft-bottom benthic communities: Exploring biogeographic and genetic connectivity from southeast Pacific Seamounts

Seamounts, abyssal plains, canyons and Atacama trench. Sediment macrofauna, meiofauna, bacteria, biogeochemistry and minerals

Implementation of the MSFD to the DEep Mediterranean Sea

Deep-sea monitoring for the Marine strategy framework directive

ARNAUD HAOND

Distribution and biodiversity of deep-sea corals, cold seeps, canyons; also includes a modeling and prediction component

Characterizing fauna and microbial ecosystem services on seamounts (MESS) of the northwestern Pacific Costa Rican EEZ around Dorado Outcrop. This will be submitted as a Decade project in collaboration with Schmidt Ocean Institute.

sylvie.gaudron@sorbonne-universite.fr

Life-history traits and functional traits of benthic species: growth rate, fecundity, size at puberty, longevity..

sylvie.gaudron@sorbonne-universite.fr

Life-history traits and functional traits of benthic species: growth rate, fecundity, size at puberty, longevity..

sylvie.gaudron@sorbonne-universite.fr

Life-history traits and functional traits of benthic species: growth rate, fecundity, size at puberty, longevity..

nadine.le_bris@sorbonne-universite.fr

Hydrothermal vents and canyons, habitats and functions, monitoring

saskia.brix-elsig@senckenberg.de

Marine habitats from the shelf to the deep sea including abyssal plains, hydrothermal vent system, coral reefs (VMEs) as observatory

Taylor, Kai Horst George & Saskia Brix

saskia.brix-elsig@senckenberg.de

david.a.butterfield@noaa.gov

Submarine Ring of Fire: Hydrothermal Hunt in the Northern Mariana Backarc

Hydrothermal vent biology, geochemistry, microbiology, geology, in-situ sensors, eDNA, and physical oceanography, in collaboration with Schmidt Ocean Institute.

Deep-sea biodiversity, Robotics and sampling devices, 3D imaging in situ, Reality capture and 3D reconstruction, Biological sample collection, in collaboration with Schmidt Ocean Institute.

Southeast Pacific, Salas y Gómez, Nazca, and Juan Fernández Ridges

The Deeps of the Last Outpost: biogeographic borders in the deep south-east Pacific Ocean

Seamount biology, Biogeography of benthic organisms, Deep-sea corals, Deep-sea fish, Remotely Operated Vehicles, Freefalling Baited Imaging Landers, anthropogenic impacts, VMEs, EBSAs, in collaboration with Schmidt Ocean Institute.

Explorer Ridge – Linking biological and geological processes with advanced sonar technology

Interferometric synthetic aperture sonar (InSAS); autonomous underwater vehicle; deep-sea magnetics; hydrothermal systems; hydrothermal fluids; vent ecosystems; seafloor classification; marine protected areas; mid-ocean ridges; habitat mapping, in collaboration with Schmidt Ocean Institute.

Learning to heal from open wounds: Exploration of deep-sea microbes and innate immunity via deep-sea corallivory

Deep-sea Ecosystems, Coral Reef Ecosystems, Microbiology, Ocean Engineering, in collaboration with Schmidt Ocean Institute.

Cold-water coral (CWC) ecology, seafloor and habitat mapping, seabed geomorphology, automated segmentation and classification, 3D RGB point-clouds, uranium dating, paleobiogeography, paleoclimate, oceanography, hydrodynamics, biodiversity, glider, multibeam, in collaboration with Schmidt Ocean Institute.

Characterizing Benthic Communities Across Mineral-Rich Marine Biomes off Southern California

Deep-Ocean Baseline Faunal Characterization, Marine Minerals, Marine Microbiology

Pinging in the New Year: Mapping the Tasman and Coral Seas

Marine geology and Seabird ecology. Operations include systematic seafloor mapping using the Kongsberg EM302 and EM710 multibeam systems, and seabird observations while at sea. In collaboration with Schmidt Ocean Institute.