Dr. Tracey Sutton of Nova Southeastern University presented information about NOAA's sampling program shortly after the DWHOS at the Oil Spill Science Seminar: "Five years later, what have we learned?"
Dr. Sutton's talk was "Fishes, shrimps, and cephalopods of the oceanic Gulf: research since DwHOS."
Dr. Joe Lopez of Nova Southeastern University will present his labs research at the 2015 GoMRI Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference on February 16th 2015 in Houston, TX. Following is a brief synopsis of his work:

It's no apparition—this new species of ghostly white snailfish was photographed swimming at depths of 4.3 miles (7 kilometers) during a recent expedition to the Peru-Chile trench (see map) in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.