DOSI Deep-Sea Round-Up

A sculpin rests on a large red tree coral. Image courtesy of the Deepwater Exploration of Glacier Bay National Park expedition and UCONN-NURTEC.

This week we’re looking for new recruits to our Instagram team – think you might be up for the challenge? Check out the details inside. New papers consider the fate of glass sponge larvae in the Gulf Stream, the ecology and geology of three new vent sites off Iceland and the prevalence of microplastics within a deep-sea food web. The Guardian continues to reel off articles about deep-sea mining while an article in Mongabay, featuring a number of DOSI members, considers the tricky question of the funding of deep-sea research by prospective mining companies. As ever, all this and more. Enjoy!

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