DOSI Deep-Sea Round-Up

This octopus was found nestled among the rocks during Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Biodiverse Borderlands Expedition off the coast of Southern California. This image, supplied by Lisa Levin, is also one of the photos currently showcased on DOSI’s new Flickr page where we have just started promoting deep-sea images and research from the DOSI community. If you have any images you think others would like to see, please reach out to Brandon.

New research in this week’s Deep-Sea Round-Up is putting the spotlight on the smaller members of the deep-sea community. Articles this week cover topics including plankton in oligotrophic seas, epibiotic squat lobster symbiotes, microbes in deep-sea sediment, and more. Publications are also advocating for mesophotic reef monitoring and protection of the Salas y Gómez and Nazca Ridges, and don’t miss the piece on fish and squid that turned up somewhere remarkably unexpected.

In deep-sea mining, we link to a recording of an ISA webinar from this week explaining progress on the rules for equitable benefit sharing. Then it’s on to upcoming events, which include Ocean Sciences Meeting activities and a speaker on indigenous inclusion in the ocean sector.

Among the new opportunities this week are a postdoctoral position at Yale, a social science lead position with MASTS, and a consultancy on connections between environmental interests and deep-sea mining rules. Finally, dive to the bottom of the Round-Up for a new video from Natural World Facts explaining deep-sea swarms and clusters.

CLICK FOR YOUR DEEP-SEA ROUND-UP – 24 February 2022