March 2018

New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, and R/V Falkor 2017 Field Season

PREFERRED CITATION

Raineault, N.A, J. Flanders, and A. Bowman, eds. 2018.

New frontiers in ocean exploration: The E/V Nautilus, NOAA

Ship Okeanos Explorer, and R/V Falkor 2017 field season.

Oceanography 31(1), supplement, 126 pp., https://doi.org/

10.5670/ oceanog.2018.supplement.01.

FRONT COVER. A large Deepstaria enigmatica scypho-

zoan jellyfish is imaged up close at 974  m depth off of

San Benedicto Island, Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico,

on E/V Nautilus cruise NA092. This specimen, measuring

approximately 55 cm across, was approached in almost

complete darkness and remained undisturbed for several

minutes, at which point it closed its umbrella and turned

to present itself in high detail. An intricate network of

anastomosing canals, assumed to be part of its digestive

tract, is clearly visible. Image credit: D. Fornari (WHOI-MISO

Facility) and OET

Interior of a gas-rich pillow basalt off the west

coast of Socorro island, Revillagigedo Archipelago,

Mexico, from E/V Nautilus cruise NA092. Image

credit: D. Fornari (WHOI-MISO Facility) and OET

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