Paper from DEEPEND PI Sutton chosen as one of the most-significant publications in the 70-year history of Deep-Sea Research

The journal Deep-Sea Research was first published in October 1953, directed by the Joint Commission on Oceanography to focus on the deep-sea floor as the main theme.

The scope of the journal, considered one of the most prestigious in oceanography, has since grown to encompass the entire open ocean from the air-sea interface to beneath the sea floor. Of over 10,000 papers published, 70 were selected as the most significant in the 70-year history of the journal. A paper entitled A global biogeographic classification of the mesopelagic zone (Sutton et al., 2017), which included DEEPEND data, was chosen by the journal as one of the 70. This paper, which characterizes the regional scales over which the ocean interior varies in terms of biodiversity and function, has been actively cited by the scientific, resource management, marine policy, marine conservation, and marine education sectors.

*T.T. Sutton, M.R. Clark, D.C. Dunn, P.N. Halpin, A.D. Rogers, J. Guinotte, S.J. Bograd, M.V. Angel, J.A.A. Perez, K. Wishner, R.L. Haedrich, D.J. Lindsay, J.C. Drazen, A. Vereshchaka, U. Piatkowski, T. Morato, K. Błachowiak-Samołyk, B.H. Robison, K.M. Gjerde, A. Pierrot-Bults, P. Bernal, G. Reygondeau, and M. Heino (2017). A global biogeographic classification of the mesopelagic zone. Deep-Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers, 126, pp. 85-102, 10.1016/j.dsr.2017.05.006