Hi everyone!

My name is Ian Areford, and I’m a PhD student in Kevin Boswell’s Marine Ecology and Acoustics Lab at FIU. This is my first research cruise and after working with deep-sea organisms for the last 4 years it’s been amazing to not only see all the weird and wacky deep-sea creatures that come on board but also to experience being on a research vessel collecting all this data in real time. 

Hi, fellow ocean lovers! My name is Emma Schindler, and I am a second-year master's student in Dr. Sutton's Oceanic Ecology Lab at Nova Southeastern University. This is my first time sailing with the DEEPEND team, and it has been such a blast. 

I have had the great good fortune to spend much of my life in remote corners of our planet, investigating wildlife communities.  From Amazonian rainforests to subterranean rivers in Southern China to the open oceans of our planet, I’ve been incredibly lucky to have been able to spend lots of time in these haunts.  There is a quote that really struck me when I first read it:

"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."

- Jacques Yves Cousteau, Oceanographer

Hello everyone!

This is Bianca Ruiz, a master’s student in Dr. Tracey Sutton’s lab at Nova Southeastern University, coming to you live from the R/V Point Sur as we kick off our DP10 cruise!

Day one was a success! After the crew assembled our MOC10 nets and set up the lab, it was time to start collecting samples. Our first net of the cruise was deployed on April 22nd at 2100 and retrieved on April 23rd at 0230.