New paper out! Blue carbon stocks in the Endangered eelgrass Zostera capensis 🌱 We hope this further highlights the need to protect the extremely valuable yet vulnerable seagrass habitats in southern Africa. Limited free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1gmDb~1MBnTaS

#eDNA is revolutionizing #biodiversity sciences, #ecology & #evolution. While we totally agree on its opportunities, Couton Marjorie, Frédérique Viard and I call for some caution regarding inherent limits for its use for #population #genetics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10… 1/n🧵on why.

New paper out in EGU Ocean Sciences! We present hadal CTD observations from the Southern Ocean, Indian Ocean, and western Pacific. os.copernicus.org/articles/20/12… Deep Sea Research Centre School of Biological Sciences, UWA UWA Oceans Institute Alan Jamieson Jan Zika (1/2)

A #deepsea sea cucumber / holothurian 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘦 sp. 'dancing' past our deep-sea lander system at 5200m on our ambitious TransPacific expedition. Inkfish UWA Research School of Biological Sciences, UWA

Why are we spending 3 months exploring the Nova Canton Trough? Alan Jamieson explains Big thanks to our partner Inkfish UWA UWA Oceans Institute UWA Research School of Biological Sciences, UWA #DeepSea

STUDYING #deepsea AMPHIPODS PhD student Jenny Wainwright had the opportunity to collect hadal and abyssal dwelling amphipods from 3000 to 8000 meters for the very first time in the Nova Canton Trough. UWA School of Biological Sciences, UWA UWA Oceans Institute Jenny Wainwright youtu.be/YiZssFDkRuU?si…

🦑BREAKING SQUID NEWS🦑 Rare #deepsea #squid filmed at depth by Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre and Inkfish UWA Dr Jess Kolbusz Heather Stewart Alan Jamieson UWA Research UWA Oceans Institute School of Biological Sciences, UWA

"Ocean Diagnostics is one of my favourite partnerships because of the people as well as the technology. I’m really proud to see the scale and the amount of data that we’ve collected using (Ascension)," says Marcelle Ayad of Minderoo Foundation. Read our story at hubs.ly/Q02zLGGy0

An overview of our recent trip to the Nova-Canton trough where we collected 438 deep-sea eDNA samples. Working with Deep Sea Research Centre on these expeditions has been an absolute blast! Special thanks to the team on board Dr Elinnnn & Meg Cundy, Inkfish, and Minderoo Foundation