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Steven Auscavitch, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate

Boston University College of Arts and Sciences

Biology

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ORCID : 0000-0001-5777-4814

My research focuses on several aspects of the ecology and biodiversity of the deep ocean, the largest and last great frontier for exploration on Earth. I am most interested in how life is distributed in the deep sea along environmental gradients and across oceanographic boundaries. My research provides better baseline information about deep-sea communities in under-explored regions in support of conservation of marine biodiversity.

These projects have taken me to the farthest corners of the Earth onboard ships and within submersibles to obtain a better understanding of life in the deep ocean. Of all the questions and hypotheses that we have posed about life in the marine environment, one thing that is clear: there is so much left to discover about life in our oceans.

Publications listed below are automatically derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and other sources, which might result in incorrect or missing publications. Faculty can login to make corrections and additions.

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Taenzer L, Wankel SD, Kapit J, Pardis WA, Herrera S, Auscavitch S, Grabb KC, Cordes E, Hansel CM. Corals and sponges are hotspots of reactive oxygen species in the deep sea. PNAS Nexus. 2023 Nov; 2(11):pgad398. PMID: 38034097; PMCID: PMC10682969; DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad398;

Balbas A, Orcutt BN, Kelley C, Auscavitch S, Petruncio E, Smith JR, Raineault N, Steward K. Lu’uaeaahikiikapapaku: Ancient Volcanos in Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Wishnak SJ, Flanders J, Crum E, Wiener C (eds.), New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The Ocean Exploration Trust, NOAA Ocean Exploration, and Schmidt Ocean Institute 2021 field season, Oceanography. 2022; 35(1):35-36. View Publication
Soule A, Auscavitch S, Fundis A, Ballard RD, Rodriguez C, Heffron E, Moran K. Exploration of an Unnamed Seamount Chain. Wishnak SJ, Flanders J, Crum E, Wiener C (eds.), New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The Ocean Exploration Trust, NOAA Ocean Exploration, and Schmidt Ocean Institute 2021 field season, Oceanography. 2022; 35(1):38-39.
Levin L, Jensen P, Rouse G, Mizell K, Castro-Falcon G, Pearson K, Creamer K, Vlach D, Auscavitch S, Coleman D. Raineault NA, Flanders J, Niiler E (eds.), New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, and R/V Falkor 2020 Field Season. Biodiversity Baselines and Biopharmaceutical Potential for the Borderland. The Oceanography Society. 2021; 38-39.

Auscavitch SR, Lunden JJ, Barkman A, Quattrini AM, Demopoulos AWJ, Cordes EE. Distribution of deep-water scleractinian and stylasterid corals across abiotic environmental gradients on three seamounts in the Anegada Passage. PeerJ. 2020; 8:e9523. PMID: 32821533; PMCID: PMC7397984; DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9523;

Auscavitch SR, Deere MC, Keller AG, Rotjan RD, Timothy M, Cordes EE. 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. 2020; 7:1-15. View Publication
Auscavitch S, Bellucci LA, 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. Wishnak SJ, Flanders J, Crum E, Wiener C (eds.), Oceanography. 2020; 35(1):16-17. View Publication
Wagner D, Sowers D, Williams S, Auscavitch S, Blaney D, Cromwell M. Océano Profundo 2018: Exploring deep sea habitats off Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. 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. The Unknown and the Unexplored: Insights Into the Pacific Deep-Sea Following NOAA CAPSTONE Expeditions. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2019; 6:480. View Publication
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. New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, and R/V Falkor 2019 Field Season. 2019; 33(1):38-39.

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Demopoulos AWJ, Auscavitch S, Sowers D, Pawlenko N, Kennedy BRC. Discovering the deep: exploring remote Pacific marine protected areas. Oceanography. 2018; 31:76-77.
Williams SM, Auscavitch S, France SC, Wagner D, Sowers D. ?Raineault N, Flanders J (2019). New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, and R/V Falkor 2018 Field Season. Oceanography. Océano Profundo 2018: Exploration of Deep-Sea Habitats of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. 2018; 32(1).
Raineault N, Girguis P, Auscavitch S, Castillo C, Lubetkin M, Marlow J, Pak D, Myhre SE, Kennett J, Netburn A, Kane R. Exploration of Central California Basins, Cold Seeps, and San Juan Seamount. Oceanography. 2017; 30(1):36-37.
Auscavitch SR, Waller RG. Biogeographic patterns among deep sea megabenthic communities across the Drake Passage. Antarctic Science. 2017; 13:1-13. View Publication
Cordes EE, Auscavitch S, Baums IB, Fisher CR, Girard F, Gomez C, McClain-Counts J, Mendlovitz HP, Miles, Smith S. ECOGIG: Oil Spill Effects on Deep-Sea Corals Through the Lenses of Natural Hydrocarbon Seeps and Long Time Series. 2016.
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. 2015; 28(1):36-37.
Carey S, Bell KLC, Sparks S, Stinton A, Ausubel J, Phillips BT, Raineault NA, Siu N, Fandel C, Graham O, Ramsingh H, Blake R, Auscavitch S, Demopoulos AWJ, Rodrigue K. Impact of Volcanic Eruptions on the Seafloor around Montserrat, West Indies. Oceanography. 2014; 27(1):36-37.
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. Exploration of the Mid-Cayman Rise. Oceanography. 2014; 27:32-33.
Thomas C, Auscavitch SR, Brooks A, Stoner AW. Proceedings of the 67th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute. Assessing Essential Queen Conch (Strombus gigas) Habitat in Eleuthera, The Bahamas: Population Declines Suggest the Urgent Need for Changes in Management. 2014; 344-347.
Auscavitch SR, DeBey HS. Steneck et al., 2013. Status and Trends of Bonaire’s Reef in 2013: Causes for Optimism. Patterns of predatory fishes within and around marine protected areas of Bonaire. 2013.
Auster PJ, Kilgour M, Packer D, Waller R, Auscavitch S, Watling L. Octocoral gardens in the Gulf of Maine (NW Atlantic). Biodiversity. 2013; 14:193-194.
Auster PJ, Grenda D, Godfrey J, Heupel E, Auscavitch S, Mangiafico J. Behavioral Observations of Lilliputian Piscivores: Young-of-Year Sphyraena barracuda at Offshore Sub-Tropical Reefs (NW Atlantic Ocean). Southeastern Naturalist. 2011; 10:563-569.

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 22 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2014 and 2019 and 2020

Bar chart showing 22 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2014 and 2019 and 2020

Year	Publications
2011	1
2013	2
2014	3
2015	1
2016	1
2017	2
2018	2
2019	3
2020	3
2021	1
2022	2
2023	1

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