BELOW
A squat lobster perches atop a bubblegum coral on San Juan
Seamount in the Southern California Borderland. The image was
taken by remotely operated vehicle SuBastian as researchers
investigated several sites where marine minerals are known (or
expected) to occur, while assessing the biological communities liv-
ing among the mineral substrates. Image credit: ROV SuBastian/
Schmidt Ocean Institute
ON THE COVER
A diversity of deepwater coral species was imaged on Ha‘aheo
Seamount during E/V Nautilus expedition Lu‘uaeaāhikiikapapakū
(NA134) in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
Image credit: Ocean Exploration Trust
PREFERRED CITATION
Wishnak, S., J. Flanders, E. Crum, and C. Wiener, eds. 2022.
New frontiers in ocean exploration: The Ocean Exploration
Trust, NOAA Ocean Exploration, and Schmidt Ocean Institute
2021 field season. A Supplement to Oceanography 35(1),
78 pp., https://doi.org/ 10.5670/oceanog.2022.supplement.01.