Background Materials
Review Papers
- How did the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impact deep-sea ecosystems? (Fisher et al. 2016)
- Dining in the Deep: The Feeding Ecology of Deep-Sea Fishes (Drazen & Sutton 2017)
- Vertical ecology of the pelagic ocean: classical patterns and new perspectives (Sutton 2013)
- Perspectives in visual imaging for marine biology and ecology: from acquisition to understanding (Durden et al. 2016)
- DNA barcoding of pelagic cnidarians: current status and future prospects (Lindsay et al. 2015)
- Perspectives on Chemical Oceanography in a changing environment: Participants of the COME ABOARD Meeting examine the field in the context of 40 years of DISCO (Fassbender et al., submitted)
Biodiversity
- Biodiversity’s Big Wet Secret: The Global Distribution of Marine Biological Records Reveals Chronic Under-Exploration of the Deep Pelagic Ocean (Webb et al. 2010)
- Diversity and community structure of pelagic cnidarians in the Celebes and Sulu Seas, southeast Asian tropical marginal seas (Grossmann et al. 2015)
- Biodiversity in midwater cnidarians and ctenophores: submersible- based results from deep-water bays in the Japan Sea and north-western Pacific (Lindsay & Hunt 2005)
- A novel benthopelagic ctenophore from 7,217 m depth in the Ryukyu Trench, Japan, with notes on the taxonomy of deep-sea cydippids (Lindsay & Miyake 2007)
- Diversity and vertical distribution of mesozooplankton in the Arctic’s Canada Basin (Kosobokova & Hopcroft 2009)
- Reproductive biology of deep-water calanoid copepods from the Arctic Ocean (Kosobokova et al. 2006)
- Patterns of zooplankton diversity through the depths of the Arctic’s central basins (Kosobokova & Hopcroft 2011)
- Jellies under ice: ROV observations from the Arctic 2005 hidden ocean expedition (Raskoff et al. 2010)
- Diversity of midwater cephalopods in the northern Gulf of Mexico: comparison of two collecting methods (Judkins et al. 2016)
Predators
- In Hot Water: Elephant Seals and the Blob_presentation (Holser 2016)
- Augmenting Argo: characterizing sub-surface conditions in the Northeast Pacific at a time of extreme oceanographic variability (Costa)
- Foraging Behavior and Success of a Mesopelagic Predator in the Northeast Pacific Ocean: Insights from a Data-Rich Species, the Northern Elephant Seal (Robinson et al. (2012)
- Linking mesopelagic prey abundance and distribution to the foraging behavior of a deep-diving predator, the northern elephant seal (Saijo et al. 2016)
Hydrothermal vents and methane seeps
- Beyond the vent: New perspectives on hydrothermal plumes and pelagic biology (Phillips 2016)
This paper synthesizes a growing body of scientific evidence supporting the hypothesis that hydrothermal plumes are the energetic basis of unique deep-sea pelagic food webs. - The Gelatinous Macroplankton Community at the Hatoma Knoll Hydrothermal Vent (Lindsay et al. 2015)
- Widespread methane leakage from the sea floor on the northern US Atlantic margin (Skarke et al. 2014)
Particle Flux
- Fluxes of particulate carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in the upper water column of the northeast Pacific (Knauser et al. 1979)
- Role of large particles in the transport of elements and organic compounds through the oceanic water column (Fowler & Knauer 1986)
Methods
- Observations of in situ deep-sea marine bioluminescence with a high-speed, high-resolution sCMOS camera (Phillips et al. 2016)
- Report on the Deep Argo Implementation Workshop, May 2015 (Zilberman and Maze 2015)
The Deep Argo Workshop was organized to initiate science and implementation planning for a global Deep Argo array, to satisfy broad-scale requirements for measurement of temperature, salinity, and ocean circulation and for combination with other observing system technologies that will complement the float array’s large-scale attributes. - Clio: Fully Autonomous Particle Profiling (Breier)
- Quantifying Spatiotemporal Greenhouse Gas Emissions Using Autonomous Surface Vehicles (Dunbabin & Grinham 2017)
- The Untethered Remotely Operated Vehicle PICASSO-1 and Its Deployment From Chartered Dive Vessels for Deep Sea Surveys Off Okinawa, Japan, and Osprey Reef, Coral Sea, Australia (Lindsay et al. 2012)
- The uROV PICASSO, the Visual Plankton Recorder, and other attempts to image plankton (Lindsay et al. 2013)
- Pelagios (Henk-Jan Hoving)
DESCEND-2 Workshop
- DESCEND-2 Workshop Background Documents
- DESCEND 2 Questions to Develop
This packet was included as background materials for the DEveloping Submergence SCiencE for the Next Decade 2 workshop. It includes the primary questions that were outlined at the initial 1999 DESCEND meeting as well as the major questions as presented in the 2015 SEA CHANGE: Decadal Survey report.
NOAA Emerging Technologies Workshop for Observations
Census of Marine Life
- Recommendations to Census of Marine Life Project from SCOR Panel on New Technologies for Observing Marine Life
- Technology Workshop for a Census of Marine Life
Marine Biodiversity Observation Network
- Decadal variability in the oxygen inventory of North Atlantic subtropical underwater captured by sustained, long-term oceanographic time series observations (Montes et al. 2016)
- A framework for a marine biodiversity observing network within changing continental shelf seascapes (Muller-Karger et al. 2014)
- Genetic and Manual Survey Methods Yield Different and Complementary Views of an Ecosystem (Kelly et al. 2017)
- NOAA Press Release: US initiates prototype system to gauge national marine biodiversity
- Observations of marine diversity during a coral spawning event in the Flower Gardens Bank National Marine Sanctuary
- Press Release: New Website Explores National Effort to Better Understand Marine Life, Ecosystem Change
- Vertical fluxes of particulate biogenic material through the euphotic and twilight zones in the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela (Montes et al. 2012)
NOAA Ocean Exploration and Research
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Schmidt Ocean Institute
Other
- NOAA NCEI Water Column Sonar Data Search Tool (includes non-NOAA cruises)
- A Call for Deep Ocean Stewardship (Mengerink et al. 2014)
- List of references provided by Youngbluth
Agenda
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Event Information
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Participants
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