Stormie Collins

🎉 Congrats to Stormie Blayze Collins, runner-up for The Crustacean Society Best Student Oral Presentation at SICB 2025! Find out more about our awards and grant opportunities here: 🔗 thecrustaceansociety.org/scholarship.php 📸 Stormie Blayze Collins

🌊 Last weekend, some lucky kayakers and snorkelers came across a rare deep-sea dwelling fish in La Jolla Cove. The seagoers spotted a 12-foot #oarfish and to give you an idea of how rare this encounter is, only 20 oarfish have washed up in California since 1901!

Got a sneak peak of the new @SmithsonianSMS R/V Sunburst and sampled meiofauna at Capron Shoal during Day 1 of our workshop. It's an awesome boat! #SweatTheSmallStuff

Congrats to PhD student Amanda Horch for her paper just published on a new species of bopyrid parasite of snapping shrimp from Brazil! She spent a very productive year in my lab and this is the first of multiple pubs from that work. zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/63/63…

This red volcano with blue lava is the cup of a deep-sea hormathiid anemone slowly secreting a bioluminescent mucus. Unlike the previous photo of this animal, the mucus hasn’t flowed into the water, but instead is strongly coating the surface of the anemone.

This is the spew bioluminescence of the deep-sea benthic shrimp Heterocarpus ensifer. I've shown it before, but the clouds of light (generated by ingredients from two locations on each side of the mouth) are so pretty and varied that they're worth showing again.

@sonkelab she is beautiful!!!

Amazing new deep-sea squid footage from the central Pacific. Deep-sea hooked squid Taningia danae with the huge bioluminescent photophores. 1000m deep, grabs lander during 58 m/min free fall @HeatherMarGeo @deepseauwa #inkfishexplore

This is the humpback angler fish Melanocetus johnsoni, famous for its bioluminescent lure and its tiny males that attach themselves permanently to the females. I love how the eyes seem to be permanently fixed on the lure. Finding food down there must be a bear.

🦑BREAKING SQUID NEWS🦑 Rare #deepsea #squid filmed at depth by Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre and @InkfishExplore @uwanews @jesskolbusz @HeatherMarGeo @Hadalbloke @UWAresearch @uwaoceans @BiolSci_UWA

This shy guy is an unidentified deep-sea isopod. This is not one of the huge benthic ones (Bathynomus) but instead is about the size of a thumb and lives in the water column. Many marine isopods are parasitic and suck blood from fish, but this one may be free-living.

The weird and wonderful Gibberfish. Blackwater off Palm Beach, Florida #ikelite

Shrimp 🍤 glo 🌞 news.fiu.edu/2024/shrimp-ge…

@daly66 @BrackenGrissom Thanks so much!!! ☺️

So excited to share that the first chapter of my dissertation was published this morning in Biological Reviews! We increase reports of bioluminescent shrimp by 65% and provide a taxonomic list of bioluminescent shrimp species! 🦐🩵 @BrackenGrissom onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

@metallic_roughy @BrackenGrissom Thanks Jon!!!

Shrimp glow, did ya know?!!! So proud of @prawn_princess_ for this review of bioluminescence in deep-sea decapods! We increase previous accounts by 65% and found most common form of GLOW is NOT what we expected. @FIUMarineBio @FIUEnvironment @FIUCASE onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Such a pleasure to meet the Queen of bioluminescence, Dr. Edie Widder! 🩵 making my childhood dreams come true, one inspiration at a time! @ediewidder @BrackenGrissom

You go @prawn_princess_ for a successful proposal defense. @FIUMarineBio @FIUEnvironment

Another surprise visitor to the San Juan islands today! A giant oarfish washed up on Friday Harbor in near perfect condition. Check out those jaws!!