Anthropogenic activities and greater demands for marine natural resources has led to
increases in the spatial extent and duration of pressures on marine ecosystems. Remotely …

Over a 3-year period, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
organized and implemented a Pacific-wide field campaign entitled CAPSTONE: Campaign …

Background Buoyancy and balance are important parameters for slow-moving, low-
metabolic, aquatic organisms. The extant coelacanths have among the lowest metabolic …

Although the deep oceans represent Earth's largest habitat, the challenges of studying deep‐
sea organisms in situ have limited our understanding of adaptation, ecology, and behaviour …

The ophidiid genus Porogadus occurs between 800 and 5300 m in the tropical and
subtropical world oceans. Fifteen nominal species have been described since 1878 and …

In 1872, HMS Challenger set sail on what was the first dedicated oceanographic expedition.
The six scientists and 200 sailors on board were faced with developing a suite of new tools …

During voyages in 2017 off southern and southeastern Australia, the Australian Research
Vessel Investigator deployed a series of demersal beam trawls to depths of around 5000 …

Effective monitoring of marine ecosystems and the redistribution of marine species globally
from climate change, overfishing, and other anthropogenic pressures require robust …

The deep sea is the largest ecosystem on the planet, comprising more than 90% of the
volume that life can inhabit, yet it is the least explored biome in the world. The deep sea …