Appreciator of comb jellies, medusan jellies, medusan polyps, medusan other stages, sponges (particularly the glass ones). I speak for myself.
Allen Collins
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Allen Collins
Amazing zooms on this Tomopteris! Way to go pilots 👏
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 919 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife
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Still some time to get applications in.
New paper presenting a comparative analysis of reproductive traits in venomous box jellies. #MarineLife is awesome! www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
Curator of Fishes position available at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Note the opening and closing dates. trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/... Please share.
Learn more about Seascape Alaska! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/094a...
NOAA has released first data from NOAA Ocean Exploration environmental samples. oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/news/from-da...
Allen Collins
Love this particular ctenophore! An undescribed species of Aulacoctena. Hopefully we can characterize and name this one sometime soon. oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/wp-content/u...
Allen Collins
Researchers at Tohoku University look beyond the life-taking venomous stings of box jellyfish, and focus on life-creating processes in a new comprehensive study of their reproductive traits.
Tomorrow, April 30, 2026, at 4 p.m. ET I will share some discoveries (including the “golden orb”) from the 2023 Seascape Alaska expeditions during a webinar. Registration link: vimeo.com/event/584117....
Lisa
Allen Collins
A regional mapping campaign in support of the National Strategy for Mapping, Exploring, and Characterizing the U.S. EEZ
NOAA Ocean Exploration, in partnership with the National Systematics Laboratory of NOAA Fisheries, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Ocean DNA Program, and NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanogra...
NOAA Library Seminars Speakers: Dr. Allen Collins (NOAA NMFS Office of Science and Technology National Systematics Laboratory), Meredith Westington (NOAA Integrated…