All datasets produced by the DEEPEND consortium will be made publicly available within the GRIIDC data repository.  To find a dataset, visit the GRIIDC website and click 'Search Data'.  DEEPEND data must be cited using the following formats listed below:  

To cite a dataset from the GRIIDC data repository that has been issue a DOI, please use the following format:

[data originator last name], [data originator first name], [co-data originators]. [title of the dataset] [year dataset registered/published by GRIIDC]. Distributed by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC), Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. doi:

Example: Braken-Grisson, Heather. DNA sequences for Penaeoidea phylogeny Distributed by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC), Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N75M63Q3

To cite a dataset from the GRIIDC data repository that has not been issued a DOI, please use the following format:

[data originator last name], [data originator first name], [co-data originators]. [title of the dataset] [year dataset registered/published by GRIIDC]. Distributed by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC), Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. Available from:

Example: Sutton, Tracey. Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler and Shipboard Computer System data from R/V Point Sur cruise DP01 in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, May 1-8 2015. Distributed by: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC), Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. Available from: https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org/data/R4.x257.226:0003.