-Keri Thompson/Sue Zwicker: SI online databasing plans for the future of our public data
July 3rd, 2018
-Jon Norenburg: Worms and their crabs
July 10th, 2018
-Nat Evans: Diversity, disparity and molecular evolution of Swimming crabs
July 17th, 2018
-Rebecca Helm: Jellies
July 24th, 2018
-Jennifer Hammock: The new EOL
July 31st, 2018
-Sarit Truskey: Tomopteris systematics
August 7th, 2018
-Freya Goetz: 3D reconstructions and an update on the micro CT
August 14th, 2018
-Juan Pablo Hurtado Padilla: The new SEM capabilities, projects and programs
August 28th, 2018
-Chan Lin: Brain anatomy of hyperiid amphipods
September 4th, 2018
-Leann Biancani: Hyperiid amphipod relationships
September 11th, 2018
-Abby Reft: Cnidae
September 18th, 2018
-Karen Osborn: Tomopteris systematics
September 25th, 2018
-Yolanda Villacampa: USNM Micromollusk type images and photography
October 2nd, 2018
-Anna Zhadan: Polychaetes with simple morphology: Orbiniidae and Cossuridae
October 9th, 2018
-Mael Glon
October 16th, 2018
-Holly Bik: Nematodes
October 23rd, 2018
-Sonia Rowley: Mesophotic Gorgonian Corals of the Indo-West Pacific
October 30th, 2018
-Makiri Sei: Jamacian land snail systematics
November 6th, 2018
-Thais Marinho: Differentiation of five similar species of genus Thyasira (Thyasiridae, Bovalvia) using Morfometry Geometric as a tool
November 13th, 2018
-Anna Phillips, Bill Moser: Update on the US National Parasite Collection
November 20th, 2018
-Alberto Lindner: Reef corals of Brazil
November 27th, 2018
-Herman Wirshing: Primnoid octocoral systematics
December 4th, 2018
-Clarissa Molinari: Coronate jellies
February 12th, 2019
-Kayce Bell: pinworm phylogenomics
February 19th, 2019
-Marshall Boyd
February 26th, 2019
-Allen Collins: Update on the Aqua Room
March 5th, 2019
-Karen Osborn: Cape Verde Field Report
March 19th, 2019
-Paula Pappalardo: Larval development and its consequences for marine biogeography
March 26th, 2019
-Jen Collins
April 2nd, 2019
-Dita Cahyani: ARMS
April 9th, 2019
-Anna Phillips: Acanthobdellida, missing link of leech evolution?
April 23rd, 2019
-Ellen Strong: More is better: hundreds of nuclear genes improve understanding of Pleuroceridae (Gastropoda; Cerithioidea) relationships.
May 7th, 2019
-Chris Meyer: A phylogenetic Strategy for Capturing the Global Genome
May 21st, 2019
-Botond Polgári: Jellies
May 28th, 2019
-Eric Nishiyama: Siphonophore Morphology, Taxonomy and Systematics
June 4th, 2019
-Chris Meyer: Introduction to GeOMe
June 11th, 2019
-Vreni Häussermann: Chilean Patagonian octocorals
June 18th, 2019
-Brett Gonzalez: Turks & Caicos Cave Exploration
June 25th, 2019
-Karen Osborn: Tomopteris kinematics
July 2nd, 2019
-Megan Chen: Climate and Science on the Sphere
July 9th, 2019
-Cristiana Branco: Filling in Gaps on Deep-sea Sponge Systematics
July 16th, 2019
-Alia Payne: Aqua Rumination
July 23rd, 2019
-Andrianus Sembiring & Ni Putu Dian Pertiwi: Indonesian Decapod Biodiversity of Coral Head & Population Genetics of Long Tailed Tuna in Indonesia
July 30th, 2019
-Abby Reft: Nematocyst Discharge
August 8th, 2019
-Ally Irwin & Suzanne Williams: Strombidae eyes
August 13th, 2019
-Holly Waters: Micro-CT and hyperiid eyes
August 20th, 2019
-Juanes Uribe: A Mitogenomic Phylogeny of Chitons
August 27th, 2019
-Juanes Uribe: Transcriptome-based Phylogeny of Gastropoda
September 3rd, 2019
-Ali Kazerani: Micro-CT and hyperiid eyes
September 10th, 2019
-Tommy Devine: DROP
September 17th, 2019
-Freya Goetz: Micro-CT Update
September 24th, 2019
-Amanda Robinson, Bill Moser, Geoff Keel: Collection Management Processes
October 8th, 2019
-Jerry Harraseywich: “Living Fossils” and Long Branches: Use of Molecular Data to Infer the Origins, Phylogeny, Ecology, Biogeography and other interesting stuff about Deep-Sea Snails
October 15th, 2019
-Carrie Craig: Texas Bioblitz
October 22nd, 2019
-Makiri Sei: Landsnails of Cockpit Country
October 29th, 2019
-Lindsey Schwartz: Mytilid Physiology
November 5th, 2019
-Aydin Örstan: Snails Amidst Sepulchers: Journeys in Southern Turkey to Locate Type Localities
November 12th, 2019
-Paula Pappalardo: STREAMCODE Project
November 19th, 2019
-Nick Bezio: Science Illustration: Visually communicating science through art.
November 26th, 2019
-Jennifer Questel: Barcoding the Last Frontier: DNA Barcoding and Metabarcoding Alaska's Marine Zooplankton Communities
December 10th, 2019
-Sean Keogh: TBA
January 14th, 2020
-Danielle DeLeo: The Largest Migration on Earth: Sensory Adaptations of Bioluminescent Deep-sea Vertical Migrators
January 21st, 2020
-Tripp Macdonald III: Next Generation Barcoding of Tunicates
January 28th, 2020
-Yolanda Villacampa: Mollusk Photo Images and More
February 4th, 2020
-Jaimee Rodriguez and Raven Bneko: Science writing in IZ and the I2F program
February 6th, 2020
-Alejandro Damian Serrano: Siphonophore feeding
February 11th, 2020
-Mike Vecchione: Pelagic Gastropods
February 18th, 2020
-Mike O'Mahoney: BOEM Alaska Cruise
February 25th, 2020
-Vanessa Gonzalez: Speciation (rapid population divergence using RADSeq) and courtship (investigating darkness as a resource in bioluminescent cortship behavior using lunar eclips es) in the Caribbean bioluminescent Ostracod, Photeros annecohenenae (Myodocopida: Cypridinidae).
March 3rd, 2020
-Keri Thompson: Fig Share database
March 10th, 2020
-Martha Nizinski: Cruise
March 17th, 2020
-Jen Collins: World Ocean day planning and other E&O updates
March 24th, 2020
-Chris Mah: New Multi-armed brittle stars from Antarctica. Discoveries from the 1960s USARP!
March 31st, 2020
-Kelly Speer: Sources of variation in the microbiome of blood-feeding insect parasites of bats
April 7th, 2020
-Andrea Quatrini: Genomics elucidates species boundaries and the role of the environment in the evolution of Paramuricea
April 14th, 2020
-Jimmy Bernot: crustacean phylogenomics
April 21st, 2020
-Kasia Grzelak: Kinorhynchs
April 28th, 2020
-Herman Wirshing: octocoral morphology
May 5th, 2020
-Katrina Lohan
May 12th, 2020
-Val Paul: Sea slugs, slime and coral diseases: chemical ecology and our changing ocean - modification of a talk I gave at the end of February at the Marine Natural Products Gordon Research Conference when I received the Paul J. Scheuer Award in Marine Natural Products, which recognizes significant contributions to the field of marine natural products research
May 19th, 2020
-Allen Collins: eDNA sequencing in the field with minION
May 26th, 2020
-Camilla Alves Souto: Convergent evolution and paleobiogeography of the cassiduloid echinoids
June 2nd, 2020
-Steve Canty: Genetic structure of a remnant Acropora cervicornis population
June 9th, 2020
-Karen Osborn: Deep-sea fish wrap-up in ultra black cloaks
June 16th, 2020
-Linda Ianniello: Blackwater diving
June 23rd, 2020
-Catalina Ramirez-Portilla: Treading thin lines: Delineating species boundaries in the speciose Acropora coral genus
June 30th, 2020
-Rachel Collin: The Impacts of Environmental Conditions Across the Complex Life-cycles of Marine Invertebrates
July 7th, 2020
-Vanessa Stenvers: Pyrosomes in the middle Atlantic
July 14th, 2020
-Ricky Patel: Straight as the mantis shrimp swims: Path integration using hierarchical orientation cues in a stomatopod
July 21st, 2020
-Brett Gonzalez: Mitogenom analyses
July 28th, 2020
-Gene Hunt: Sexual selection and extinction in fossil ostracodes
August 4th, 2020
-Grace Wyngaard: Transposable Elements are Excised during Programmed DNA Elimination in Mesocyclops edax (Crustacea: Copepoda)
August 18th, 2020
-Norine Yeung: A 100-year journey from discovery to description: Two Hawaiian land snails finally gets their name
September 1st, 2020
-Jan Hemmi: A new method for estimating spatial resolution reveals two parallel visual streaks in the eyes of fiddler crabs
September 8th, 2020
-Richard Collins: Blackwater diving
September 15th, 2020
-Vanessa Stenvers: Paraphronima robisoni - a new species of hyperiid amphipod
September 22nd, 2020
-Karen Osborn: Ctenophoricola - a new genus of ctenophore parasites
September 29th, 2020
-Zack Kobrinsky: Commercial still-life photography techniques in natural history and DIY collection and husbandry methods
October 6th, 2020
-Henk Jan Hoving: visualizing processes in the midwater
October 13th, 2020
-Jen Collins: EO&VE updates and opportunities
October 20th, 2020
-Edward Zattara: Differential gene expression during nemertean regeneration
October 27th, 2020
-Basti Bentlage: phylogenetic comparative work on the evolution of photo symbiosis in corals
November 3rd, 2020
-Stephanie Bush: Pteropod blackwater diving and species distributions
November 10th, 2020
-John Pfeiffer: A modern mussel monograph: less boring than some other things
November 17th, 2020
-Alice Chou: Seeing in water, then air: visual adaptations in amphibiotic arthropods
November 24th, 2020
-Yolanda Villacampa: A Story Map of William H. Dall and his 1927 micromollusk types
December 1st, 2020
-Nancy Knowlton: Ocean acidification and coral reef diversity: CO2 seeps in Papua New Guinea
December 8th, 2020
-Francesca Leasi: Integrating biodiversity surveys of meiofauna and host-associated microbiome for ecosystem biomonitoring
January 19th, 2021
-Zahra Bagheri: Target tracking by dragonfly inspired robots and selective attention in fiddler crabs
January 26th, 2021
-Alexis Weinnig: Impacts of multiple stressors on a cold-water coral: Lophelia pertusa elicits distinct phenotypic and cellular stress responses to a decrease in pH, increase in temperature, and pollution exposure
February 2nd, 2021
-Elin Thomas: Exploring the nature of a deep-sea cosmopolitan holothurian
February 9th, 2021
-Rebecca Helm: Life between worlds: the ecosystems of the ocean’s surface
February 16th, 2021
-Katherina Jorger: Hidden among sand grains - Evolution of mesopsammic slugs
February 23rd, 2021
-Steve Haddock: Ctenophores and bioluminescence
March 2nd, 2021
-Nathan Whelan: Systematics and Conservation of Freshwater gastropods
March 9th, 2021
-Cathy McFadden: Species delimitation and biogeography of the Indo-Pacific zooxanthellate soft corals
March 16th, 2021
-Jerry Lewis: Zoogeography and evolution of the isopod genus Lirceus
March 23rd, 2021
-Joseph Mack: From mud to meat: How predatory annelids can demystify the evolution of animal carnivory
March 30th, 2021
-Kate Bemis/Allen Collins/Chris Meyer: Fish barcoding
April 6th, 2021
-Nancy Budd: The Eocene diversification of scleractinean reef corals
April 13th, 2021
-Kevin Kocot: Old-school meets new-school: biodiversity and systematics of microscopic animals in the 21st century
April 20th, 2021
-Alexa Bely: The beauty of freshwater naid annelids for integrative studies of regeneration and asexual reproduction
April 27th, 2021
-Ashleigh Smythe: New world drifters: Marine nematodes ride Japanese tsunami debris to our Pacific coast
May 4th, 2021
-Jakob Winnikoff: Grease Under Pressure: Lipid Composition of Ctenophores Reveals Temperature-Independent Depth Adaptation
May 11th, 2021
-Danielle Deleo: Population genetics of cold seep mussels (Bathymodiolus)
May 18th, 2021
-Heather Glon: There and back again: discovering how a sea anemone (genus Metridium) spread in cold temperate waters
May 25th, 2021
-Vanessa Stenvers: Gill parasites in midwater cephalopods: towards an understanding of prevalence and infection strategy
June 1st, 2021
-Cheryl Ames/student: Staurozoa systematics and detecting their eDNA in post-Great East Japan Earthquake Tsunami area
June 8th, 2021
-Ken Hayes: Biodiversity conservation of Hawaii's neglected majority: moving beyond species driven conservation
June 15th, 2021
-Will Jaeckle: Feeding on the unseen by the barely visible: Diversity of foods consumed by planktonic invertebrates and larvae
June 22nd, 2021
-John Pfeiffer: The importance of freshwater mussels in freshwater mussel research.
June 29th, 2021
-Karen Osborn: Expedition report: Exploring the deepest spots off Western Australia
July 6th, 2021
-James Townsend: Gelatinous gourmands: Using DNA metabarcoding to investigate the diets of oceanic ctenophores
July 13th, 2021
-Stewart Eddie: Dynamics of bivalve biodiversity in space and time
July 20th, 2021
-Ashley Sharpe: Freshwater Mollusks of the Ancient Maya
July 27th, 2021
-Matt Leray: The formation of the Isthmus of Panama: an unrivalled opportunity to understand drivers, functions and evolution of marine host-associated microbiomes
September 7th, 2021
-Tricia Goulding: Using modern and historical museum collections to investigate diversity of Pacific Island microsnails (Achatinellidae: Pacificellinae)
September 14th, 2021
-Andrea Quatrini: Phylogenomics illuminates the octocoral tree of life
September 21st, 2021
-Chase Smith: Genomic insights into the biology and evolution of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida)
September 28th, 2021
-Florian B. Reyda: Getting hooked on acanthocephalans and the search for parasites from the past
October 5th, 2021
-Vanessa Gonzalez: Using genome assemblies to showcase the evolution of molluscan weirdness
October 12th, 2021
-Jen Hammock: Correcting the Internet: navigating the data visualization interface in the Encyclopedia of Life to review geographic, habitat and attribute records and provide feedback.
October 19th, 2021
-Stephanie Bush: How much is a shelled pteropod transported horizontally in the open ocean?
October 26th, 2021
-Davey Wright: The dredge, the hammer, and the phylogenetic tree: reconstructing the evolution of biological diversity in crinoid echinoderms
November 2nd, 2021
-Yu Kai Tan: Cost of Living: Species Specific Clinal Variation in Freshwater Mussel
November 16th, 2021
-Lena Cole: Seawater chemistry as a driver of echinoderm macroevolution: Experimental insight and deep-time decoupling
November 23rd, 2021
-Vanessa Knuston: An inordinate fondness for slugs: Phylogenomics of the gastropod clade Heterobranchia
November 30th, 2021
-Janna Nawroth: Larvaceans: Model Organisms for Biological Fluid Propulsion
December 7th, 2021
-Kakani Katija: Can artificial intelligence enable exploration and discovery of ocean life? Yes, but not without experts.
December 14th, 2021
-Jen Collins and Lara Noren: Education Update and Discussion
January 18th, 2022
-John Pfeiffer: The haves, the have nots, and the might could haves: the taxonomic distribution of mitochondrial genomes
January 25th, 2022
-Jorge Bogantes Montero: Mussel Power for Healthier Rivers in the Nation's Capital
-John Fornshell: The Potential Functions of Mechanoreceptors Found on Trilobite Larva of Limulus polyphemus (Linnaeus, 1758)
February 15th, 2022
-Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn and Emmett Duffy: A scientific foundation for assessing and protecting marine biodiversity in United States waters
February 22nd, 2022
-Kevin Du Clos: Nanomia bijuga: a complex, colonial swimmer
March 1st, 2022
-Jessica Goodheart: Invertebrate Pirates: Mechanism and Evolution of a Stolen Defense
March 8th, 2022
-Jimena Garcia Rodriguez: Cubozoa, a small and complex class of cnidarians
March 15th, 2022
-Kaylee Herzog: Hooks, hosts, and haplotypes: A deep dive on the biology of a marine tapeworm
March 29th, 2022
-Vanessa Stenvers: Optics in the holopelagic Oxycephalidae (Amphipoda, Hyperiidea)
April 5th, 2022
-Alice Chapman: Mineralogical insights into coral trace element incorporation and stress
April 12th, 2022
-Karen Osborn: Vision in the Deep: a expedition report
April 19th, 2022
-Alexa Maine: No Bones About It! Freshwater Mussels and Pacific Lamprey Research and Restoration
April 26th, 2022
-Paula Pappalardo: Using GeOMe and Geneious to add ecological information to genetic sequences
May 3rd, 2022
-Nicolas Mongiardino Koch: A revised phylogenetic framework for Echinoidea (and some general comments on tree building)
May 10th, 2022
-Andrea Quattrini: Expedition Report: Illuminating Biodiversity off Puerto Rico
May 17th, 2022
-Tammy Russell: Travels in space and time to investigate plastic pollution in the Antarctic Food Web
May 24th, 2022
-Heather Bracken-Grissom: Creatures of the Darkness: Investigating Life and Light in the Deep Sea
May 31st, 2022
-Gabriela Farfan: Biomineralogy research on non-bones at NMNH
June 7th, 2022
-Veronica Radice: Chemical traits track global change biology of corals
June 14th, 2022
-Dave Pawson: The sea brings forth: but at what cost?
June 21st, 2022
-Adriana Patricia Rodriguez Bermudez: Endolithic algae of the Caribbean: its diversity and distribution across reefs and depths.
June 28th, 2022
-Tim Coffer: Life on a Deep Sea Shipwreck
July 11th, 2022
-Chris Meyer: How much diversity do we need to sample to eliminate dark data?
July 19th, 2022
-Luke McCartin: eDNA sequencing to study deep coral reefs
September 6th, 2022
-John Pfeiffer: What digitized natural history collections data can (and can’t) tell us about US freshwater mussel diversity, distribution, and decline
September 13th, 2022
-Freya Goetz: Micro-CT at NMNH, procedures and fun images
September 20th, 2022
-Tricia Goulding: Mangrove molluscs in the Indo-West Pacific in need of assessment for conservation
September 27th, 2022
-Jimmy Bernot: Insights into the phylogeny and development of barnacles from the first stalked barnacle genome (Pollicipes pollicipes)
October 4th, 2022
-Alia Payne and Jen Collins: EOVE Updates
October 11th, 2022
-Claudia Vaga: Untangling azooxanthellate species relationships in Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) based on a target enrichment approach
October 18th, 2022
-Paula Pappalardo/Anish Aradhey: Taxonomic Assignments Using Metabarcoding
October 25th, 2022
-Alex Franzen: Paradox of the pigtoes: linking phylogeny and ecology to morphological diversity in pleurobemine freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae)
November 1st, 2022
-Patrick Allison Jr.: Protecting the Nameless: Species Delimitation and Educational Outreach in Crayfishes
November 8th, 2022
-Santiago Herrera: Coral pop gen in GoMx
November 15th, 2022
-Caitlin Bloomer: Distributional Drivers of US Crayfish
November 22nd, 2022
-Jeremy Horowitz: Black Coral Phylogenetics
November 29th, 2022
-John Fornshell: Research on sea spiders (Chelicerata; Pycnogonida) in the era of single ship oceanographic voyages (1870 – 1915)
December 6th, 2022
-MC Hannon: Musculature transformations in the epitokus clam worm Alitta succinea (Nereididae)
January 17th, 2023
-Karen Osborn: The Marian Pettibone Legacy Project
February 7th, 2023
-Sonia J. Rowley: Genomic approaches to assess the diversity of Gorgonian Octocorals on Indo-Pacific Mesophotic Coral Reefs
February 14th, 2023
-Andrea Quattrini: MDBC project
February 28th, 2023
-Sean Keogh: Comparative & experimental inferences reveal mechanisms of ecomorphological variation in freshwater mussels
March 14th, 2023
-Nina Ramos: IZ Photogrammetry Project
April 4th, 2023
-Ryan Garrick: Dead wood is not waste wood: biodiversity, evolutionary history, and conservation of saproxylic invertebrates
April 18th, 2023
-Dave Johnson: Putative Bayesian mimicry of gelata by larvae of marine fishes a closer look, based on in situ images by blackwater photographers
April 25th, 2023
-Kaden Muffett: Microbiology and Systematics of Cassiopea (upside down jellyfishes) in the Florida Keys