Deep Sea Exploration



DS001
Creating Deep Impact: Strategic alignments across deep ocean observing, modeling, exploration, and technology
Student/Early Career Chair:  Breanna Motsenbocker, Mots Marine LLC, Kingston, United States and Deep Ocean Observing Strategy
Primary Chair:  Leslie M Smith, Your Ocean Consulting, LLC, Knoxville, United States and Deep Ocean Observing Strategy
Co-chairs:  Laura Cimoli, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Kirsty McQuaid, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha, South Africa, Olusola Adeoye, Nature Care resources centre, Lagos, Nigeria and Deep Ocean Observing Strategy


DS002
Advancing Knowledge of the Atlantic Deep Sea: Exploring Biodiversity, Connectivity, and Ecosystem Function in Data-Poor Regions
Student/Early Career Chair:  Sinothando Shibe, South African National Parks, Cape Town, South Africa
Primary Chair:  Louise Allcock, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
Co-chairs:  Ana Belen Yanez, Memorial University Fisheries and Marine Institute, St John's, Canada and Kerry Howell, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom


DS003
From high seas to EEZs: The role of deep-sea science in shaping knowledge-based ocean policy decisions
Student/Early Career Chair:  Dominique Anderson, Heriot-Watt University, Centre for Marine Biodiversity & Biotechnology, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Primary Chair:  Johanne Vad, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Co-chairs:  Brian Kennedy, Ocean Discovery League, Saunderstown, United States and Randi Rotjan, Boston University, Boston, United States


DS004
Seamounts at the Nexus of Ocean Science
Primary Chair:  Anna Roik, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, OceanQuest, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia and Lissette Victorero
Co-chairs:  Lissette Victorero, University of Southampton, Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative, Southampton, United Kingdom, Malcolm Clark, The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research NIWA, Wellington, New Zealand, Martin Visbeck, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, OceanQuest, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia and Lissette Victorero


DS005
Shining Light on the Dark Pelagic: Mesopelagic and Bathypelagic Community and Processes
Primary Chair:  Paola G. Batta-Lona, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States
Co-chairs:  Jennifer M Questel, University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, United States and Leocadio Blanco-Bercial, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences - Arizona State University, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, St. George's, Bermuda


DS006
Unlocking ocean biodiversity: eDNA, biogeochemistry, the discovery of new species and creating a digital ocean
Student/Early Career Chair:  Larissa Frühe, OceanX, New York, United States
Primary Chair:  Allison Miller, Schmidt Ocean Institute, Palo alto, United States
Co-chairs:  Kailani Acosta, OceanX, New York, United States, Jeremy Horowitz, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, United States and Erin E. Easton, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, South Padre Island, United States