Getting ready to set sail

The DEEPEND team will be heading back out to the Gulf of Mexico next week to conduct their 10th MOCNESS cruise! The main goal of this cruise will be to continue the deep-pelagic time series work as well as adding a new component to create a genetic reference library that can be used to validate eDNA sampling efforts by researchers all over the world. DEEPEND’s famed photographer, Dante Fenolio, will be out there capturing images of the animals we collect and the operations at sea.

The plan is to set sail just after midnight on Tuesday, April 22 and sample for 12 days, arriving back in port on May 3, 2025. The ship tracker will be updated daily on the DEEPEND website's home page as to where DEEPEND is sampling. Cruise blogs will keep everyone updated as to what is happening at sea. You can subscribe to the DEEPEND cruise blog or view it anytime here: https://restore.deependconsortium.org/index.php/cruises/cruiseblog