A major new DEEPEND paper is out now describing major and sustained decreases in the deep-pelagic animals living in the Gulf.

Now that we're back and starting the new academic year, it seems like a good time to highlight a few of the big events that took place over the summer! After kicking off the summer with the 2026 Gulf Conference and our 11th DEEPEND research cruise, we took a short pause for breath, and then Tracey Sutton and I headed out to the inaugural MIDSEC meeting, held in a beautiful castle in Sweden. This meeting was held over the course of 5 days and brought together a number of world

We have a new paper out now in Frontiers in Marine Science that examines the effects of data transformations and taxonomic resolution on how we interpret ecological patterns, using a deep-pelagic trawl dataset as a case study.

The Seascape Ecology Lab was at GulfCon 2026 in Mobile, AL

Learn more about our new paper examining the effects of mesoscale eddies on mesopelagic fishes in the Gulf of Mexico

For those of you planning to attend the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland next February, please know that Tracey Sutton and I will be convening session 255771 in the Marine Ecology and Biodiversity Theme, titled " ME013: The Deep-Pelagic Realm as a Nexus for Ecological Connectivity ". The more we learn about the inhabitants of the open oceans, the more we're seeing that it is a highly open and connected biome: pelagic fauna are vital prey for a suite of deep-divi

I was delighted to be an invited participant at the Ocean Twilight Zone Symposium, hosted by WHOI and JETZON. The workshop, titled "...