Jon Moore

New Arctic work finds the edges of a methane seep are up to ten times more species-rich than the seep center. The rich zone gets the chemosynthetic food without the harsh chemistry of the seep itself. An ecotone doing what ecotones do. #marinelife link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

#Geol104playlist For the scientific method youtu.be/V83JR2IoI8k?...

No Kings Day in Vero Beach, FL

#DeepSeaMining has scientists worried for our ocean and planet. Deep-sea ecologist and high seas policy expert @drandrewthaler.bsky.social discusses the significant developments in 2024 and advocates for a moratorium on deep-sea mining in this Speak UP For Blue episode. @andrewlewin.bsky.social

#StandUpforScience2025

lol DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

Spent the last couple weekends surveying gopher tortoises in the Abacoa Greenway in Jupiter, FL. Finding lots of adults and young ones.

A couple deep-sea amphipods in the genus Phronima, and the barrel-shaped home for one of them, for #invertefest. These are from the northern Gulf of Mexico. #DeepSeaBenefits

Reef fishes most threatened by extinction (worldwide) receive less scientific and public attention! see our publication in Science Advances : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Let’s (re)balance our focus to protect all marine life !! and beyond ... 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐

New social account, new paper! We explored Hawaiian mesophotic reefs with tech diving and eDNA and found strong depth-based biodiversity zonation, with community breaks at ~45–60 m across the tree of life. (not OA but ask me for a PDF if you need to) doi.org/10.1111/mec....