The Seascape Ecology Lab at OSM2026

The AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 has just finished, and we had a fantastic week. This year's meeting was (very conveniently) held in my hometown of Glasgow, Scotland so I got to combine a bit of networking and catching up with old colleagues with seeing friends and family which is always lovely!

OSM26 at the Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow, Scotland

Tracey Sutton and I led a poster session on Tuesday afternoon "ME24D: The Deep-Pelagic Realm as a Nexus for Ecological Connectivity": the DEEPEND faculty and students were out in force for this one, and it was really well attended with a lot of interest from other deep-sea and mesopelagic researchers. Much of the work we've presented here is either in the publication process, or being prepped for publication in the next few months, so watch this space and keep an eye on my Publications page for upcoming research. As always, if you have any questions or want a bit more detail on our work, please feel free to reach out and I'll have happy to chat or point you to the right people.

DEEPEND presentations at OSM26:

Milligan & Sutton: ME24D-0386: Consistent effects of the Loop Current and associated mesoscale eddies on the vertical distributions of deep-living fishes in a subtropical ocean basin. [Manuscript under 2nd review].

Areford*, Johnston, Sutton & Milligan: ME24D-0388: Do Mesopelagic Fish Biomass Patterns Change in Response to Major Oceanographic Features in the Northern Gulf of Mexico?

Cook, Sutton, Boswell, Bracken-Grissom, Frank, Johnston, Judkins, Milligan, Moore, Vecchione, Peres: ME24D-0390: Examination of an ecological triple junction: mesopelagic interactions with surface and bottom faunas at the oceanic rim

Frank, Milligan, Sutton: ME24D-0394: Changes in the Micronektonic Crustacean Assemblage since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill – any signs of recovery since the crash?

Sutton, Cook, Milligan, Kirk, Lim: ME24D-0402: Chronic Underestimation of the Fast-Moving Mesopelagic Fauna Impedes Ecosystem Modeling in the Open Ocean

Glasmann, Dinnage, Urmy, Lozano, Boswell: ME24D-0408: Rhythms of the Deep: Characterizing the Heterogeneity of Diel Scattering Layer Communities in the Northern Gulf of Mexico with Wideband Echosounding and Probabilistic Echo Solving