Webinar: The Deep Gulf

Ou webinar explores life in the deep, dark Gulf: what’s down there, why they matter, and how are they doing?

When: Monday April 13  6:30 pm CT / 7:30 pm ET

Where: Online Registration through Zoom here.

Join us for a journey into the deep blue waters of the Gulf with Dr. Tracey Sutton, professor of marine and environmental sciences at the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center of Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Sutton will discuss the extraordinary biodiversity of the deep Gulf water column, from the sunlit surface to the pitch-black “midnight zone.” Research over the last 15 years has uncovered numerous new life forms but has also detected a decrease in pelagic life across multiple levels, from small deep-sea “baitfish” to large oceanic predators.

Dr. Tracey Sutton will discuss the health of the deep Gulf in the context of a highly interconnected ecosystem that ranges from Florida to Texas. Fishermen who seek pelagic fish like tuna and billfish in the Gulf will be particularly interested in Dr. Sutton’s work, which connects with the health of populations of offshore recreational fish.

Questions: Contact Christian Wagley at christian@healthygulf.org

More about Dr. Sutton:

Dr. Tracey Sutton specializes in the ecology and drivers of deep-pelagic ecosystems worldwide. He is Professor at the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center, Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Sutton is currently the Director and Lead Investigator of DEEPEND (www.deependconsortium.org), a 120 + member research consortium formed in 2015. Prior to that, Dr. Sutton led the Pelagic Nekton working group of the Census of Marine Life program MAR-ECO.

 He is also an invited Expert Panelist on two United Nations World Ocean Assessments, a founding member of the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative, and a society-elected member of the Board of Governors of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of South Florida and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He has currently funded projects in the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of Alaska, the western South Atlantic, and equatorial eastern Atlantic.