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Marine biologist
Diva Amon at Nobel Week Dialogue 2018 in
Stockholm
Diva Joan Amon is a marine biologist from
Trinidad . She is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the Benioff Ocean Initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara
[2] and a 2022 Pew Marine Fellow.
[3] Previously, she was a
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Research Fellow at the
Natural History Museum, London .
[4]
Early life and education
Amon grew up in
Trinidad . She attended
St. Joseph's Convent in
Port of Spain .
[5] Her sister is astrophysicist and cosmologist Dr.
Alexandra Amon .
[6] She earned a master's degree in
marine biology at the
University of Southampton in 2009.
[7] During her degree she learned that 95% of the deep ocean is unexplored, and decided to stay in this field for her postgraduate studies.
[7] During her PhD she took part in
I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! .
[5] She completed her doctoral training in
chemosynthetic environments under the supervision of Adrian Glover and Jonathan Copley,
[1] working between the
University of Southampton and the
Natural History Museum, London .
[8] Her PhD was funded by the graduate school of the
National Oceanography Centre scholarship.
[9] She studied
hydrothermal vents in the
Cayman Trough and spent three weeks on the R/V Yokosuka and the
DSV Shinkai 6500 .
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Research and career
Amon was appointed a
postdoctoral research fellow at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2013.
[13] She was manager of the Abyssal Baseline (ABYSSLINE) project.
[14] Her research considered the polymetallic nodules in the
Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone .
[13]
[15] She spends between one and three months on board a ship, collecting samples to take back for analysis in her lab.
[7] These included megafauna, macrofauna, meiofauna and microbes.
[16] She discovered nine new deep-sea species, including anemone and two new sponges.
[14]
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[21] She was part of the Nautilus Exploration Program.
[8]
Amon has taken part in 15 research expeditions.
[22] In 2016 she boarded the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship Okeanos Explorer and explored the deep ocean near the
Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago , which was covered in BioGraphic,
The Atlantic and
Scientific American .
[23]
[24]
[25]
[26]
[27] The live feed from the ship's
remotely operated underwater vehicle received 2.7 million views.
[9]
[28] She is the founder of SpeSeas , a non-profit that supports marine research in the Caribbean.
[29]
[30] Her research has been featured in several international newspapers.
[31]
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[33] She has also contributed to the
HuffPost ,
Gizmodo , the
Smithsonian magazine ,
Scientific American and
Business Insider .
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[40] In 2017 she appeared on the
CNN show Wild Discoveries.
[41] Amon has featured on the
YouTube channel Exploring By the Seat of Your Pants .
[42]
In 2018 Amon began a two-year
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the
Natural History Museum, London .
[43] She is on the advisory board of the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) and All Hands on Deck.
[44]
[45] In July 2018 she won the
International Seabed Authority Secretary General's Award for Excellence in Deep Sea Research.
[46] In 2022 she was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation.
[47]
References
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a
b Amon, Diva Joan (2014).
Bone-eating worms and wood-eating bivalves : characterising the ecology of deep-sea organic falls from multiple ocean basins . soton.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Southampton.
OCLC
872691732 .
EThOS
uk.bl.ethos.588933 .
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Diva Amon publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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"Diva Amon, Ph.D." The Pew Charitable Trusts . Retrieved 3 July 2022 .
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"Dr. Diva Amon earns the inaugural ISA Secretary-General's Award for Excellence in Deep-sea Research" . DSM Observer . 14 August 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2022 .
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"Profile - Yttrium Zone" . Yttrium Zone . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"Love with logic" . Newsday . Retrieved 2021-08-24 .
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"Deep-sea biologist and postdoctoral fellow: Diva Amon | Prospects.ac.uk" . www.prospects.ac.uk . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"Diva Amon" . Nautilus Live . 26 September 2014. Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"Diva Amon | Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton | University of Southampton" . southampton.ac.uk . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"YOKOSUKA < Research Vessels and Vehicles < Research Vessels, Facilities and Equipment < About JAMSTEC < JAMSTEC" . www.jamstec.go.jp . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
^ Sumida, Paulo Y. G.; Alfaro-Lucas, Joan M.; Shimabukuro, Mauricio; Kitazato, Hiroshi; Perez, Jose A. A.; Soares-Gomes, Abilio; Toyofuku, Takashi; Lima, Andre O. S.; Ara, Koichi (2016-02-24).
"Deep-sea whale fall fauna from the Atlantic resembles that of the Pacific Ocean" . Scientific Reports . 6 (1): 22139.
Bibcode :
2016NatSR...622139S .
doi :
10.1038/srep22139 .
ISSN
2045-2322 .
PMC
4764926 .
PMID
26907101 .
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"Deep-sea shipworms revealed by micro-CT scans" . www.nhm.ac.uk . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"Diva Amon - Schmidt Ocean Institute" . Schmidt Ocean Institute . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"More Surprises from the Deep Sea" . VOA . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
^ Amon, Diva; Ziegler, Amanda; Kremenetskaia, Antonina; Mah, Christopher; Mooi, Rich; O'Hara, Tim; Pawson, David; Roux, Michel; Smith, Craig (2017-05-11).
"Megafauna of the UKSRL exploration contract area and eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean: Echinodermata" . Biodiversity Data Journal . 5 (5): e11794.
doi :
10.3897/BDJ.5.e11794 .
ISSN
1314-2828 .
PMC
5515089 .
PMID
28765722 .
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"Past Research" . Craig Smith's Benthic Ecology Lab . 2015-06-09. Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"Antarctica's first whale skeleton found with 9 new deep-sea species" . EurekAlert! . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
^ Lim, Xiaozhi (5 October 2017).
"New Species of Sponges Found on the Pacific Seafloor" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
^ MACPHERSON, ENRIQUE; AMON, DIVA; CLARK, PAUL F. (2014-01-07).
"A new species of Munidopsis from a seamount of the Southwest Indian Ocean Ridge (Decapoda: Munidopsidae)" . Zootaxa . 3753 (3): 291–296.
doi :
10.11646/zootaxa.3753.3.8 .
ISSN
1175-5334 .
PMID
24872299 .
^ Dadson, Nanabanyin (2014-01-13).
Graphic Showbiz: Issue 863 January 13-15, 2014 . Graphic Communications Group.
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Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography .
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"Expeditions" . Diva Amon . 2015-06-19. Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
^ US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: Gulf of Mexico 2017: Explorers: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research" . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
^ bioGraphic Magazine (2017-11-22),
Into the Deep Unknown , retrieved 2018-08-14
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"Life on the Rocks" . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
^ Nestor, James (2017-11-30).
"Searching for the Origins of Life Thousands of Feet Underwater" . The Atlantic . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
^ Nestor, James.
"Life on the Rocks" . Scientific American . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"Deep Ocean – Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration" . engineeringfordiscovery.org . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"SpeSeas" . SpeSeas . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"THE SPESEAS TEAM" . SpeSeas . 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"NOAA's Okeanos Explorer in the Marianas Trench" . LA Times . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
^ Hunt, Elle (2016-05-06).
"Mariana trench live feed: engrossing viewing from deepest place on Earth" . the Guardian . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"Trinidad and Tobago Guardian : January 26th 2014, Page 72" . digital.guardian.co.tt . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
^ Daley, Jason.
"Future Deep Sea Mining Sites Are Bursting With Rare Marine Species" . Smithsonian . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
^ Frazer, Jennifer.
"A Jellyfish So Surreal That It Looks Unreal Is Discovered on the Enigma Seamount" . Scientific American Blog Network . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"Sites targeted for deep-sea mining teeming with new species" . news.mongabay.com . 9 August 2016. Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals" . Pulitzer Center . 2016-12-07. Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"Proposed deep-sea mining region discovered to be rich in new life" . MNN - Mother Nature Network . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
^ Stone, Maddie.
"An Enormous Deep Sea 'Desert' Is Teeming With New Forms of Life" . Gizmodo . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"Dead Whale Contains a Bounty of Life" . 2013-03-19. Archived from
the original on March 20, 2013. Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
^ Dean R. Lomax - Life as a palaeontologist (2017-09-18),
Scientists discuss living and extinct species - CNN Inspirations: Wild Discoveries (2017) , retrieved 2018-08-14
^ Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants (2018-06-06),
Diva Amon | Deep-sea Biologist , retrieved 2018-08-14
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"How Seafaring Scientists Are Mapping The Deep" . Science Friday . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"Executive Committee & Advisory Board" . All Hands on Deck . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"Management" . dosi-project.org . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
^ Limited, Jamaica Observer.
"Jamaica Observer Limited" . www.jamaicaobserver.com . Retrieved 2018-08-14 .
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"Pew Announces 2022 Marine Fellows" . The Pew Charitable Trusts . Retrieved 3 July 2022 .
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