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2025 Explorers Club Awardees
Official photo of the 2025 Explorers Club Awardees. Photo Credit: Felix Kunze. Pictured left to right are Alex Wallace (Sweeney Medal), Javier Sellanes (Citation of Merit, co-awardee), Jimmy Chin and E. Chai Vasarhelyi (Communication Award, co-awardees), Erin E. Easton (front, Citation of Merit co-awardee), Rosa Vásquez Espinoza (New Explorer Award), and Dale T. Anderson (Finn Ronne Memorial Award)

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Media reports (5 selected)

Dozens of new species discovered in deep sea expedition | CNN

Deep-sea expedition reveals over 100 new species in the Pacific | Conservation International

More than 100 possible new marine species discovered in a single deepsea expedition | CBC Radio As It Happens

A deep-sea robot may have discovered more than 100 new species | The Washington Post

Scientists Discover 50 New Deep-Sea Species Near Easter Island | MSN Newsweek

Public seminars (available online)

Easton, E. E. and Sellanes, J. 2025 (26 April) Southeast Pacific Seamounts: Exploration and Discovery. New York City, NY. 26 April 2025. Awardee, oral presentation. Archived at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPasFnT-V-4.

Easton, E. E., Pavliska, C., Hicks, D. 2020 (9 April). Revelations from mitogenome studies of western Gulf of Mexico octocorals. Oral presentation, NOAA Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program webinar series, archived at https://deepseacoraldata.noaa.gov/library/deep-sea-coral-seminars.

Easton, E. E., Shuler, A., Etnoyer, P., Greig, T., Hicks, D. 2019. Building the field guide of the future: new approaches to identification of deep-sea corals in the Gulf of Mexico. Oral presentation (webinar), OneNOAA Science Seminars, https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/seminars/.

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Tecnología. Nueva especie de Damisela en Rapa Nui

Noticias UCN al día. Equipo ESMOI-UCN participa en hallazgo de nueva especie en Rapa Nui