Publications
Presentations, Posters, and Abstracts
2024
Auscavitch, S., Pockalny, R., Rodríguez-Flores, P., Hogan, R., Foresta, N., Carrick, J., Kay, B., Harris, M., Belucci, L. Kane, R., Coleman, D. (2024). Exploration Of Deep Seamount Geology And Biology Within The Johnston Unit Of The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. In The Ocean Exploration Trust 2023 Field Season. Wagner, D. (ed.) 2024. Doi: 10.62878/vud148 (Vol. 2024, pp. 47–49). Ocean Exploration Trust. PDF.
Everett, M. V., & Auscavitch, S. (2024). Exploring deep-sea coral communities in the central Pacific with genome skimming and environmental DNA. In Wagner, D. (ed.) 2024. The Ocean Exploration Trust 2023 Field Season. Doi: 10.62878/vud148 (Vol. 2024, pp. 36–37). Ocean Exploration Trust. PDF.
2023
Baco, A.R., Parrish, F., Auscavitch, S., Cairns, S., Mejia-Mercado, B., Morgan, N., Biede, V., Roark, E.B., W.B. Brantley. Deep-sea Corals of the North and Central Pacific Seamounts. In Cordes, E.E., and Mienis, F. eds. (2023). Cold-water Coral Reefs of the World. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031408960
Taenzer, L., Wankel, S. D., Kapit, J., Pardis, W. A., Herrera, S., Auscavitch, S., Grabb, K. C., Cordes, E., & Hansel, C. M. (2023). Corals and sponges are hotspots of reactive oxygen species in the deep sea. PNAS Nexus, 2(11), pgad398. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad398 PDF
Auscavitch, S., Petruncio, E., Heffron, E., Ciravolo, A., Rodriguez, C., Deere, M., Lubetkin, M., Lippitt, R., Sablan, L., Coleman, D., Kelley, K., Soule, A., Wagner, D. Exploration of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument: Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, and Seamounts of the Surrounding US EEZ. in Wagner, D., ed. 2023. New frontiers in ocean exploration: The E/V Nautilus 2022 field season.
Oceanography 36(Supplement 2), 54 pp., https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2023.s2. PDF
Pockalny, R., Auscavitch, S., Cook, M., Everett, M., Kane, R., Konrad, K., Miller, E., Scott, B., Fundis, A., Heffron, E., Gee, L. Exploration of Deep Seamount Biology and Geology: The Johnston Atoll Unit of the Pacific Remote Island Marine National Monument. in Wagner, D., ed. 2023. New frontiers in ocean exploration: The E/V Nautilus 2022 field season. Oceanography 36(Supplement 2), 54 pp., https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2023.s2. PDF
1 unlisted manuscript submitted
2022
Auscavitch, S., Bellucci, L.A., Baumberger, T., Miller, E., Kelley, C., Raineault, N. From Seeps to Seamounts: E/V Nautilus Expedition Samples in 2021. in New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The Ocean Exploration Trust, NOAA Ocean Exploration, and Schmidt Ocean Institute 2021 field season, eds. Wishnak, S.J., Flanders, J., Crum, E., Wiener, C. Oceanography 35(1), supplement 16-17. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2022.supplement.01 PDF
Soule, A., Auscavitch, S., Fundis, A., Ballard, R.D., Rodriguez, C., Heffron, E., Moran, K. Exploration of an Unnamed Seamount Chain. in New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The Ocean Exploration Trust, NOAA Ocean Exploration, and Schmidt Ocean Institute 2021 field season, eds. Wishnak, S.J., Flanders, J., Crum, E., Wiener, C. Oceanography 35(1), supplement 38-39. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2022.supplement.01 PDF
Balbas, A., Orcutt, B.N., Kelley, C., Auscavitch, S., Petruncio, E., Smith, J.R., Raineault, N., Steward, K. Lu’uaeaahikiikapapakū: Ancient Volcanos in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. in New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The Ocean Exploration Trust, NOAA Ocean Exploration, and Schmidt Ocean Institute 2021 field season, eds. Wishnak, S.J., Flanders, J., Crum, E., Wiener, C. Oceanography 35(1), supplement 35-36. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2022.supplement.01 PDF
2021
Levin, L., Jensen, P., Rouse, G., Mizell, K., Castro-Falcon, G., Pearson, K., Creamer, K., Vlach, D., Auscavitch, S., & Coleman, D. (2021). Biodiversity Baselines and Biopharmaceutical Potential for the Borderland. In N. A. Raineault, J. Flanders, & E. Niiler (Eds.), New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, and R/V Falkor 2020 Field Season (pp. 38–39). The Oceanography Society. PDF
2020
Auscavitch SR, Lunden JJ, Barkman A, Quattrini AM, Demopoulos AWJ, Cordes EE. 2020. Distribution of deep-water scleractinian and stylasterid corals across abiotic environmental gradients on three seamounts in the Anegada Passage. PeerJ 8:e9523 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9523
Auscavitch, S. (2020). Deep-sea coral biogeography and community structure in tropical seamount environments. PhD Dissertation. Temple University. PDF
Auscavitch SR, Deere MC, Keller AG, Rotjan RD, Timothy M, Cordes EE. 2020. Oceanographic drivers of deep-sea coral species distribution and community assembly on seamounts, islands, atolls, and reefs within the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. Frontiers in Marine Science 7:1–15. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00042.
Auscavitch, S., Pockalny, R., Konrad, K., Humphreys, J., Clark, Timothy B., Heffron, E., Fundis, A. Deepwater Exploration of Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, and Jarvis Island: Geological and biological discoveries from the US Line Islands. (2019). New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, and R/V Falkor 2019 Field Season. Oceanography 33(1), supplement 38-39. PDF
2019
Kennedy BRC, Cantwell K, Malik M, Kelley C, Potter J, Elliott K, Lobecker E, Gray LM, Sowers D, White MP, France SC, Auscavitch S, Mah C, Moriwake V, Bingo SRD, Putts M, Rotjan RD. 2019. The Unknown and the Unexplored: Insights Into the Pacific Deep-Sea Following NOAA CAPSTONE Expeditions. Frontiers in Marine Science 6:480. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00480.
Williams, S. M., Auscavitch, S., France, S. C., Wagner, D., Sowers, D. Océano Profundo 2018: Exploration of Deep-Sea Habitats of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. In Raineault, N., and Flanders, J. (2019). New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, and R/V Falkor 2018 Field Season. Oceanography 32(1), supplement 90-91.
Wagner, D; Sowers, D; Williams, S; Auscavitch, S; Blaney, D; Cromwell M. 2019. Océano Profundo 2018: Exploring deep sea habitats off Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. EX-18-11 Expedition Report. (PDF)
2018
Demopoulos AWJ, Auscavitch S, Sowers D, Pawlenko N, Kennedy BRC. 2018. Discovering the deep: exploring remote Pacific marine protected areas. Oceanography 31:76–77.
2017
Auscavitch SR, Waller RG. 2017. Biogeographic patterns among deep sea megabenthic communities across the Drake Passage. Antarctic Science 13:1–13. DOI: 10.1017/S0954102017000256.
Raineault, N., Girguis, P., Auscavitch, S., Castillo, C., Lubetkin. M., Marlow, J., Pak, D., Myhre, S.E., Kennett, J., Netburn. A., Kane, R. Exploration of Central California Basins, Cold Seeps, and San Juan Seamount. Oceanography 30(1), supplement 36-37.
2016
Cordes EE, Auscavitch S, Baums IB, Fisher CR, Girard F, Gomez C, McClain-Counts J, Mendlovitz HP, Miles, Smith S. 2016. ECOGIG: Oil Spill Effects on Deep-Sea Corals Through the Lenses of Natural Hydrocarbon Seeps and Long Time Series.
2015
Cormier, M, Blake, RE, Coleman, DF, Guerrier, K, Saintilus, N, Wagner, J, Auscavitch, S. Exploration of the Windward Passage and Jamaica Channel: Tectonic Gateways to the Caribbean Sea. Oceanography. 28(1) Supplement: 36-37.
Thomas C, Auscavitch SR, Brooks A, Stoner AW. 2014. Assessing Essential Queen Conch (Strombus gigas) Habitat in Eleuthera, The Bahamas: Population Declines Suggest the Urgent Need for Changes in Management. In: Proceedings of the 67th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute. 344–347.
2014
Van Dover C, Bell KLC, Marsh L, German C, John B, Cheadle M, Vecchione M, Amon D, Ball B, Copley J, Smart C, Fuller SH, Phillips BT, Cantner K, Auscavitch S, Ballard RD. 2014. Exploration of the Mid-Cayman Rise. Oceanography 27:32–33.
S. Carey, K. L.C. Bell, S. Sparks, A. Stinton, J. Ausubel, B. T. Phillips, N. A. Raineault, N. Siu, C. Fandel, O. Graham, H. Ramsingh, R. Blake, S. Auscavitch, A. W.J. Demopoulos, and K. Rodrigue. Impact of Volcanic Eruptions on the Seafloor around Montserrat, West Indies. Oceanography 27(1), supplement, 36-37.
Auster, P.J., Packer, D., Waller, R., Auscavitch, S., Watling, L., Nizinski, M., Babb, I., Johnson, D., Pessutti, J., Drohan, A., Kinlin, B. Imaging Surveys of Select Areas in the Northern Gulf of Maine for Deep-sea Corals and Sponges during 2013-2014. Report to the New England Fishery Management Council – 1 December 2014.
2013
Auster PJ, Kilgour M, Packer D, Waller R, Auscavitch S, Watling L. 2013. Octocoral gardens in the Gulf of Maine (NW Atlantic). Biodiversity 14:193–194.
Auscavitch, S.R. & DeBey, H.S. Patterns of predatory fishes within and around marine protected areas of Bonaire. in: Steneck et al., 2013. Status and Trends of Bonaire’s Reef in 2013: Causes for Optimism. PDF.
2011
Auster PJ, Grenda D, Godfrey J, Heupel E, Auscavitch S, Mangiafico J. 2011. Behavioral Observations of Lilliputian Piscivores: Young-of-Year Sphyraena barracuda at Offshore Sub-Tropical Reefs (NW Atlantic Ocean). Southeastern Naturalist 10:563–569.
2023
Auscavitch, S., Everett, M., Cordes, E., Rotjan, R. A genetic reference library for the central Pacific Ocean deep-water Octocorallia and application in eDNA characterization of the benthos. 8th International Symposium on Deep Sea Corals. Edinburgh, Scotland. May 28-June 2, 2023. Full talk.
Everett, M., Auscavitch, S., Rotjan, R. Exploring the deep-sea coral communities of the central Pacific with eDNA. 8th International Symposium on Deep Sea Corals. Edinburgh, Scotland. May 28-June 2, 2023. Poster presentation.
Kennedy, B., Auscavitch, S., Shank, T., Sartor, C., Weinnig, A., Gauthier, A., Tennaba, A., Rotjan, R. Unmasking the Mountain: Visualizing Deep-water Coral and Sponge Communities on four flanks of an equatorial central Pacific seamount. 8th International Symposium on Deep Sea Corals. Edinburgh, Scotland. May 28-June 2, 2023. Lightning talk.
2022
Rotjan, R., Tennaba, A., Tekiau, A., Shank, T., Kagan, J., Gauthier, A., Auscavitch, S., Kennedy, B., Cordes, E., Weinnig, A., Sartor, C. Small islands, big seamounts: connecting deep oceans to people in the equatorial Pacific. 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting. March 1, 2022.
Cordes, E., Auscavitch, S., Cortes, J., Demopoulos, A., Gasbarro, R., Levin, L., Rotjan, R., Shank, T., Weinnig, A. Explore, inform, protect: How ocean exploration can improve the global capacity for marine conservation. 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting. February 28, 2022.
2021
Saso, E., Quattrini, A.M., Auscavitch, S.R., Allcock, L., Cordes, E. McFadden, C.S. Biogeography of deep-sea octocoral communities in the North Atlantic. 16th Deep Sea Biology Symposium. September 2021. Brest, France.
2020
Auscavitch, S., Deere, M., Breedy. O., Cortes, J., Cordes, E. Deep-Sea Coral Species Distribution, Diversity, and Community Structure in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone. eDSBS. Aug. 20, 2020. Abstract
2019
Auscavitch, S. R., Deere, M. C., Keller, A. G., Rotjan, R. D., Timothy, M., and Cordes, E. E. Abiotic drivers of deep-sea coral species distribution and community assembly on rugged submarine features in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. 7th International Symposium on Deep-sea Corals. Cartagena, Colombia, Aug. 2, 2019.
Auscavitch, S. R., Keller, A., Cordes, E.E. Phylogenetic relationships among octocoral species at bathyal depths in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area based on mitochondrial genetic barcodes. Poster Presentation. 7th International Symposium on Deep-sea Corals. Cartagena, Colombia, Aug. 1, 2019. Poster PDF.
Auscavitch, S.; Lunden, J.; Demopoulos, A.; Quattrini, A.; Cordes, E. Distribution patterns of deep-water corals on seamounts in the Anegada Passage: toward a better understanding of deep-sea coral biogeography in the Caribbean. ASLO 2019 Aquatic Sciences Meeting. San Juan Puerto Rico. February 27, 2019.
2018
Auscavitch, S., Rotjan, R., Demopoulos, A.W.J., Cordes, E.E. What is being protected in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area? Conserving deep-sea biodiversity, habitat, and cultural resources in the remote Pacific Ocean. World Conference on Marine Biodiversity. Montreal, QC, Canada. May 12-16, 2018.
Auscavitch, S., Demopoulos, A.W., Quattrini, A., Lunden, J.J., Cordes, E. Local oceanographic influences on distribution and phylogenetic community structure of deep-sea corals on seamounts in the Anegada Passage. 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting. Portland, OR, USA. February 15, 2018. Poster PDF.
2017
McKinnie, D., Lelei Peau, A., Auscavitch, S. Exploring the Deep Ocean Through Pacific Island Partnerships: Independent Samoa. Invited presentation to the National University of Samoa. September 20, 2017.
2016
Auscavitch, S.R., Waller, R.G. New insights to biogeographic patterns among cold-water coral-dominated benthic communities across the Drake Passage. 6th International Symposium on Deep-sea Corals. Boston, MA, USA. September 9-16, 2016.* Poster PDF.
*Winner of Best Student Poster Award.
2014
Auscavitch, S.R., Waller, R.G. First insights to complex biogeographic patterns of cold-water coral and sponge-dominated communities in the Drake Passage and West Antarctic Peninsula Shelf. 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting. Honolulu, HI USA.