DOSI Deep-Sea Round-Up
The armored searobin (Triglidae) uses modified fins to move across the seafloor and branched “whiskers” in front of its mouth to help it sense food. We’ve been using this searobin to share our partnership with the High Seas Alliance providing travel grants; make sure to find it in our Opportunities section, as grant availability ends on December 31st! Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration. You can see more deep-sea images shared through DOSI on our Flickr Page. A guide for sharing your own images through our network can be found here.
Welcome to November! This week, the Round-Up features research on biomimetics, cold seep corals, and hitchhiking microplastics. It’s also a big issue for seabed mining, as the latest round of ISA council meetings began this week. Our Minerals Working Group designed an Information Sheet for the occasion titled “Scientific Knowledge is Currently Insufficient for Effective Environmental Management of Deep-Seabed Mining,” which you can read here.
DOSI members are preparing to bring the deep ocean to COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh next week, so our Events section highlights opportunities to engage with their events both in person and online. There are also interesting new positions with both the Seattle Aquarium and MASTS seeking applicants.
Finally, now that a month of entertaining spooks is over, it can be helpful to remind friends and family that the deep ocean isn’t nearly as scary as it’s made out to be. We have a video on that topic, so please share it with anyone who could use it!
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