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Deep-sea molecular ecology and evolution. Biological Oceanography. eDNA. Diversity. Exploration. 🌊🪸🐙🧬 Lehigh Oceans Research Center www.lehighoceans.org/deepseabio

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 22/06/2026
Global warming is ocean warming! This graph shows temperature anomalies averaged over the global ocean, using Argo profiling data since 2004. While sea surface temps can fluctuate, deeper waters display a consistent warming trend—indicative of Earth's overall climate. #ShowYourStripes
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🌊 Ocean job alert! 🌊 We're hiring a Science Systems Specialist to support cruise planning on R/V Falkor (too) and management of the maritime instrumentation and scientific equipment. Learn more & apply! jobs.lever.co/schmidt-entities/ccec…
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Have you voted for Schmidt Ocean Institute and the #MarDelPlata science team yet? There's still time! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"...The length of time in which she weathers her watch: a brooding. Imagine her, perched, pale and love-long, in some dark shelf, knowing she will never meet what she has made, and making anyway..." Excerpt fr “The Mother” by Lindsay Stewart. Filmed at 2,458m during #TaludContinental_IV expedition
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
An international team of scientists is documenting remarkable biodiversity and exploring how powerful ocean currents support the #MarDelPlataCanyon ecosystem. Learn more via our latest #TaludContinental_IV expedition in Argentina! 🇦🇷 youtu.be/Ez2GJNz1vSo?...
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Lush with Life | Underwater Oases of the Mar Del Plata Canyon
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The recent Schmidt Ocean Institute #TaludContinental_IV expedition in the #MarDelPlataCanyon may have concluded, but the excitement and engagement linger on. Check out our latest story from YouTube: youtu.be/eTLt6m2f3rk?...
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Celebrating the Deep | Underwater Oases of the Mar Del Plata Canyon
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
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Jill McDermott @jillmcdermott.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
My department at Lehigh University is hiring a Laboratory Facilities Technician. Beautiful research spaces, a great community, and lots of interesting science to do! For more info: tinyurl.com/2vm3h5p9 www.lehighoceans.org ees.cas.lehigh.edu #GeoJobs #OceanJobs #SciJobs
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Oceans | Deep-Sea | Lehigh | Herrera | McDermott | United States
Consortium of researchers at Lehigh University that study the ocean environment and the life within it. We employ a combination of fieldwork, laboratory, and computational approaches. McDermott Lab of...
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J.-A. Olive @jaodynamics.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🎓 #PhD opportunity in Paris! Join us at @geosciences.bsky.social to study how magma reservoirs beneath mid-ocean ridges pressurize and trigger eruptions. Part of the @erc.europa.eu #SeaSALT project with strong international links. Background in (geo)physics? Apply now! tinyurl.com/yupkweya
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - PhD position on the dynamics of mid-ocean ridge magma reservoirs (M/F)
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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Fast-forward 4 years and a ton of research later, and my initial estimate remains the same--we've seen ~0.001% of the deep seafloor, an area approx the same as the size of Rhode Island. @oceandiscleague.bsky.social published this work in @science.org Advances today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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How little we’ve seen: A visual coverage estimate of the deep seafloor
In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed only 0.001% of the deep seafloor, leaving 66% of planet Earth unseen.
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Maya Wei-Haas, PhD @mayaweihaas.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
**BIG NEWS in the geology world!** For the first time, scientists spotted an active eruption along the mid-ocean ridge!! They visited the hydrothermal vent the day before, where a vibrant ecosystem thrived in the sweltering water. The next day, everything was gone. ⚒️🧪 My latest for @nytimes.com
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Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time (Gift Article)
Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.
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Dr. Mandy Joye @oceanextremes.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
An amazing discovery at the bottom of the ocean - brought to us by the National Science Foundation. I’ve been working at on hydrothermal systems for years and these systems always blow me away, but how incredible it would be to see discharging lava at the seafloor 🤩 😮 #ocean-science for the win!
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Herrera Lab @deepseamoleco.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The EPR is erupting! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/s...
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Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time
Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.
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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A stunningly blue-silver cerianthid sea anemone! 1241 m Solide seamount! #okeanos #saveNOAA
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FathomVerse @fathomverse.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Introducing FathomVerse 2.0 - Explore the depths and discover all life in the ocean! We improved the game to enhance player engagement, foster community connections, and expand scientific contributions. 🦑🌊🦀🧪🎮 Get the latest update to dive in! youtu.be/jwtG75EHd3M?...
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Dive into FathomVerse
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Coral Lab @corallab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Two new species described from the Coral Lab this week! 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘢 Horowitz & Barajas, 2025 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1369... 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘮𝘤𝘧𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘦 Quattrini, Morrissey, & McCartin, 2025 mapress.com/zt/article/v...
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a man says it 's a great discovery in front of an american flag
ALT: a man says it 's a great discovery in front of an american flag
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Southern eDNA Society @sednasociety.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
📘 Introducing the SeDNAs Hub: The Publishing Home for the Southern eDNA Society! We’re proud to launch the SeDNAs Hub, established in collaboration with the open-access publisher @peerj.bsky.social. This platform provides an ideal publishing venue for members of SeDNAs & the wider eDNA community.
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PeerJ – Southern eDNA Society
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Deep-Sea Biology Society @dsbsoc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Happy day 4 of #17DSBS! Meet Luke McCartin, who studies #DeepSeaCoral diversity using #eDNA sequencing in the Gulf of Mexico & Caribbean. Luke’s work involves using #ROVs to collect coral & seawater samples, analyzing DNA barcodes to reveal their #biodiversity and to understand coral distributions.
"Luke McCartin is a postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Santiago Herrera’s lab at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, United States. He uses molecular tools to study the distribution of life on the deep seafloor and its evolution. At the Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Luke will be presenting research that uses environmental DNA (eDNA) sequencing to determine the diversity and distributions of deep corals.

Using submersibles like remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), Luke’s work involves collecting samples of corals and the seawater around them from the deep-sea floor for analysis. He compares sequences of DNA from the coral specimens and the eDNA that they release into seawater in order to determine the biodiversity of deep corals in the area."

(Image: Luke McCartin grinning behind a laptop amongst collaborators: a number of screens with deep-sea footage are in the background. Image Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute; Photographer: Alex Ingle)
Image: A close-up of Luke McCartin smiling inside a dimly lit ROV."Luke’s research has been primarily focused on mesophotic and deep-sea coral communities in the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea south of Puerto Rico. Mesophotic corals, like this large colony of the black coral Plumapathes pennacea occur at depths from approximately 50 to 200 meters where light attenuates". (Image)"Deep-sea corals, like this colony of the octocoral Paramuricea from 530 meters depth, live in perpetual darkness" (Image).
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George Matsumoto @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 @mbarinews.bsky.social internship deadline Feb 28, but good time to think about your letter of recommendation while you are on holiday break! www.mbari.org/about/career...
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Internships • MBARI
Applications for the 2025 MBARI Summer Internship program are now being accepted. This 10-week internship allows college students and educators to work on a research or outreach project at MBARI.
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
When people scoff at my research about how alligators enter oceanic food chains
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 17/12/2024
🤖🌊🌋 During a research cruise off #AmericanSamoa last summer, #Mesobot made 4 daring dives into the active #underwatervolcano Vailulu’u! In a first for the #autonomousvehicle, it entered the caldera to gather images + #eDNA samples. 📸 Nova West © Ocean Exploration Trust
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Chenshu Liu @chenshuliu.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
🚨The deadline to apply for Lehigh University’s Biological Sciences PhD program is just a few weeks away! Are you (or do you know) an amazing undergrad, post-bac, or master’s student passionate about science & ready to thrive in a supportive, interdisciplinary environment? Apply here!👉bit.ly/3VwZL29
Flyer for the Biological Sciences PhD Program at Lehigh University, with images highlighting the diverse research being carried out in this program. Application deadline Jan 1st, 2025.
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Herrera Lab @deepseamoleco.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
New paper: Nuclear eDNA metabarcoding primers for anthozoan coral biodiversity assessment Works for virtually all Anthozoans, shallow or deep peerj.com/articles/186...
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Nuclear eDNA metabarcoding primers for anthozoan coral biodiversity assessment
The distributions of anthozoan corals are undercharacterized due to their wide bathymetric ranges, occurrences in remote locales, and difficulties of identification from morphology alone. Environmenta...
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Herrera Lab @deepseamoleco.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
New paper: Nuclear eDNA metabarcoding primers for anthozoan coral biodiversity assessment Works for virtually all Anthozoans, shallow or deep peerj.com/articles/186...
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Nuclear eDNA metabarcoding primers for anthozoan coral biodiversity assessment
The distributions of anthozoan corals are undercharacterized due to their wide bathymetric ranges, occurrences in remote locales, and difficulties of identification from morphology alone. Environmenta...
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Herrera Lab @deepseamoleco.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is what we have been up to lately: Coral microbiomes are structured by environmental gradients in deep waters environmentalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Coral microbiomes are structured by environmental gradients in deep waters - Environmental Microbiome
Background Coral-associated microbiomes vary greatly between colonies and localities with functional consequences on the host. However, the full extent of variability across the ranges of most coral s...
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