Farewell to AleutBio: Journey’s end and new beginnings
14. July 2025, 11.23 am

Prolog Dear Readers, Time is a peculiar thing—sometimes it crawls, and everything feels tedious; other times, it sprints, leaving you wondering where it all went. We’ve experienced every shade of this spectrum, and now, here we are at the end of the AleutBio project. This… more
AleutBio - science meets art
26. March 2024, 7.58 pm

©2024 María Fernanda Rivera. All rights reserved
The image above contributes to the results of the AleutBio expedition by highlighting and visualising the biodiversity of marine organisms, thus contributing to their understanding. As a participant in the AleutBio expedition, I discussed the OFOS videos with UNAM students, including Maria Fernanda Rivera Orozco,… more
Why AleutBio is so important to the Challenger 150 UN Ocean Decade programme
13. October 2023, 10.27 am #Uncategorized

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you will be aware we are in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). The Ocean Decade is a 10-year framework initiative to identify, generate and use critical ocean knowledge to manage the ocean… more
Halfway-Through-The-Project
10. September 2023, 11.02 pm #Uncategorized

Copyright: © 2022, Stefanie Kaiser
Hello dear readers, Here we are, right in the middle – just like on an oceanic voyage when half the journey is done. Though we haven’t hoisted colourful flags in the wind, after a year full of adventures, it’s time to pause briefly and take… more
First of their kind: Two new Paramesochridae species from the Aleutian Trench, North Pacific
10. September 2023, 10.25 pm #Uncategorized

Copyright: © 2023, Frederic Bonk
Species within the harpacticoid family Paramesochridae are typically associated with intertidal and subtidal habitats, as well as with groundwater ones (Gheerardyn & Veit-Köhler 2009). Until now, no species of this family was found in habitats deeper than 5,389 m (Wells 2007, Gheerardyn & Veit-Köhler 2009,… more