Farewell to AleutBio: Journey’s end and new beginnings

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

Art: Explorations in the Aleutian Trench
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

Halfway-Through-The-Project

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

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