Leadership & Staff Lonny Lundsten Senior Research & Engineering Technician [javascript protected email address] EducationB.S., Marine and Coastal Ecology, California State University Monterey BayM.S., Marine Science, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Research Cruises R/V Bold HorizonMorro Wind-farm Expedition, Central CA, USA: September 8 – 26, 2019R/V Araon2017 Canadian Arctic Expedition, Beaufort Sea, Canada: August 25 – September 16, 2017CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier2016 Canadian Arctic Expedition, Beaufort Sea, Canada: September 20 – October 3, 2016R/V Western FlyerAMP/MBA Collections in Monterey Bay (Olhasso), Dec 14 – 17, 2021Low Altitude surveys in Monterey Bay (Caress), April 26 – May 1, 2021MBA Collections at Monterey Canyon and Guide Seamount (Wandell), January 22 – 25, 2019Monterey Canyon whalefall and coldseep (Orphan), February 22 & 23, 2017Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge (Clague), August 8 – 16, 2016Monterey Canyon Microbial Ecology (Worden), September 11 – 14, 2015Alarcon Rise 2015 (Clague), April 3 – April 13, 2015Axial Seamount 2014 (Clague), August 26 – September 6, 2014Southern California 2014 (Vrijenhoek), June 19 – 25, 2014Monterey Canyon 2014 (Paull), April 14 — 20, 2014Southern California 2013 (Vrijenhoek), May 18 – 24, 2013Alarcon Rise, GoC Expedition 2012 (Clague), April 21 – May 1, 2012Monterey Bay Whale Falls (Vrijenhoek), June 2 – 7, 2011MBNMS Container Survey (DeVogelaere), March 8 – 10, 2011Monterey Bay Whale Falls (Vrijenhoek), October 25 – 29, 2010Taney Seamounts (Clague), August 5 – 13, 2010Monterey Bay Whale Falls (Vrijenhoek), November 16 – 20, 2009Monterey Canyon Processes (Paull), June 15 – 20, 2009Monterey Canyon Woodfall & Davidson Seamount (Barry), April 15 – 19, 2009Monterey Bay Whale Falls (Vrijenhoek), March 10 – 13, 2009Monterey Bay Whale Falls (Vrijenhoek), Dec. 18 – 21, 2007California Seamounts (Clague), June 17 – 24, 2007Monterey Bay Whale Falls (Vrijenhoek), Jan. 10 – 13, 2007Davidson Seamount (DeVogelaere/Barry/BBC), Jan. 26 – Feb. 4, 2006Monterey Canyon Processes (Paull), March 10 – 16, 2005Midwater (Haddock), Oct. 4 – 11, 2004Juan de Fuca Ridge (Stakes), Aug. 30 – Sept. 9, 2004California Seamounts (Clague), April 27 – May 8, 2004California Seamounts (Clague), October 11-17, 2003Midwater (Robison), Sept. 29 – Oct. 4, 2003R/V Rachel CarsonMBA collection (Wandell), April 25, 2019MBA collection (Wandell), April 24, 2019MBA collection (Wandell), February 20, 2019MBA collection (Wandell), November 1, 2018MBA collection (Wandell), November 26, 2018MARS Node (Dawe), October 29, 2018MiniROV Midwater Collections (Katija), August 23, 2018MBA collection (Wandell), April 9, 2018MBA collection (Bush), June 12, 2017BRS and hermit crab collection (Barry), March 8, 2016MARS Node (Etchemendy), September 16, 2015Octopus collection (Bush), November 14, 2013Deep ESP (Ussler), October 30, 2013R/V Point LobosMonterey Bay Whale Fall (Vrijenhoek), May 26, 2010Midwater (Haddock), February 12, 2009Cliff Search (Haddock), June 3, 2008Cliff Search 2 (Barry), April 18, 2008Cliff Search (Barry), April 10, 2008MARS Cable Environmental Monitoring Program (Barry), January 30, 2008MARS Cable Environmental Monitoring Program (Barry), December 6, 2007MBA HD Filming (MBA), October 4, 2004MBA HD Filming (MBA), January 29, 2003R/V ZephyrESP deployment – March 31, 2011ESP recovery – April 19, 2010ESP recovery – June 11, 2009ESP deployment – May 14, 2009ESP recovery – April 29, 2009Davidson Seamount (Clague), AUV Mapping, Oct. 7 – 12, 2006R/V McArthur IIWest Coast Corals 2010, Leg 3 Piggy Bank (Yoklavich) May 27 – July 2, 2010R/V Ka’imikai-O-KanaloaSouth Tonga (Tofua) Arc Submarine Volcanoes (Stoffers), Pisces IV & V Manned Submersibles, Auckland, NZ – Pago Pago, American Samoa, June 6 – 29, 2005R/V Alpha HelixSoutheast Alaska (Kvitek) ECOHAB, June 23 – July 15, 1999
Orenstein, E., K. Barnard, L. Lundsten, G. Patterson, B. Woodward, and K. Katija. 2023. The FathomNet2023 Competition Dataset. ArXiv. /abs/2307.08781
Kakani, K., E. Orenstein, B. Schlining, L. Lundsten, K. Barnard, G. Sainz, O. Boulais, M. Cromwell, E. Butler, B. Woodward, and K.L.C. Bell. 2022. FathomNet: A global image database for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean. Scientific Reports, 12(15914): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19939-2
Canals, M., C.K. Pham, M. Bergmann, L. Gutow, G. Hanke, E.V. Sebille, M. Angiolillo, L. Buhl-Mortensen, A. Cau, C. Ioakeimidis, U. Kammann, L. Lundsten, G. Papatheodorou, A. Purser, A. Sanchez-Vidal, M. Schulz, M. Vinci, S. Chiba, F. Galgani, D. Langenkämper, T. Möller, T.W. Nattkemper, M. Ruiz, S. Suikkanen, L. Woodall, E. Fakiris, M.E. Molina Jack, and A. Giorgetti. 2021. The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects. Environmental Research Letters, 16(023001): 1-30. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abc6d4
Katija, K., B. Schlining, L. Lundsten, K. Barnard, G. Sainz, O. Boulais, B. Woodward, and K.L. Croff Bell. 2021. FathomNet: An open, underwater image repository for automated detection and classification of midwater and benthic animals. Marine Technology Society Journal, 55(3): 136–137. https://doi.org/10.4031/mtsj.55.3.20
Katija, K., E. Orenstein, B. Schlining, L. Lundsten, K. Barnard, G. Sainz, O. Boulais, B. Woodward, and K.C. Bell. 2021. FathomNet: A global underwater image training set for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean. arXiv: 2109.14646. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2109.14646
Boulais, O., B. Woodward, L. Lundsten, K. Barnard, B. Schlining, K.C. Bell, and K. Katija. 2020. FathomNet: An underwater image training database for ocean exploration and discovery. arXiv: 2007.00114. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2007.00114
Martini, S, D.T. Schultz, L. Lundsten, and S.H.D. Haddock. 2020. Bioluminescence in an undescribed species of carnivorous sponge (Cladorhizidae) from the deep sea. Science, 7: 1–19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.576476
Katija, K., B. Woodward, B. Schlining, L. Lundsten, K. Barnard, and K.L.C. Bell. 2019. FathomNet: An open, underwater image repository for automated detection and classification of midwater and benthic targets using machine learning. Third Marine Imaging Workshop, Victoria, British Canada, June 24–28, 2019. Ocean Networks Canada, University of Victoria.
McGann, M., and L. Lundsten. 2019. Influence of an upper bathyal whale-fall on benthic Foraminifera, Monterey Canyon, California. Micropaleontology, 65: 435–448. MicroPress MicroAccess.
Georgieva, M.N., C.K. Paull, C.T.S. Little, M. McGann, D. Sahy, D. Condon, L. Lundsten, J. Pewsey, D.W. Caress, and R.C. Vrijenhoek. 2019. Discovery of an extensive deep-sea fossil serpulid reef associated with a cold seep, Santa Monica Basin, California. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6: 1–18. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00115
Clague, D.A., D.W. Caress, B.M. Dreyer, L. Lundsten, J.B. Paduan, R.A. Portner, R. Spelz-Madero, J.A. Bowles, P.R. Castillo, R. Guardado-France, M. Le Saout, J.F. Martin, M.A. Santa Rosa-del Rio, and R.A. Zierenber. (2018). Geology of the Alarcon Rise, Southern Gulf of California. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 19: 807–837. http://doi.org/10.1002/2017GC007348
Valdés, Á., L. Lundsten, and N.G. Wilson. 2018. Five new deep-sea species of nudibranchs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Cladobranchia) from the Northeast Pacific. Zootaxa, 4526: 401–433. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4526.4.1
Goffredi, S.K., S.B. Johnson, V. Tunnicliffe, D. Caress, D. Clague, E. Escobar, L. Lundsten, J.B. Paduan, G. Rouse, D.L. Salcedo, L.A. Soto, R. Spelz-Madero, R. Zierenberg, and R. Vrijenhoek. 2017. Hydrothermal vent fields discovered in the southern Gulf of California clarify role of habitat in augmenting regional diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284: 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0817
Lundsten, L., H.M. Reiswig, and W.C. Austin. 2017. Three new species of Cladorhiza (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Cladorhizidae) from the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa, 4317(2): 247–260. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4317.2.3
Reichert, A.N., L. Lundsten, and D.A. Ebert. 2016. First North Pacific records of the pointy nosed blue chimaera, Hydrolagus cf. trolli (Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae). Marine Biodiversity Records, 9: 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41200-016-0095-5
Paull, C.K., S.R. Dallimore, D.W. Caress, R. Gwiazda, H. Melling, M. Riedel, Y.K. Jin, J.K. Hong, Y.G. Kim, D. Graves, A. Sherman, E. Lundsten, K. Anderson, L. Lundsten, H. Villinger, A. Kopf, S.B. Johnson, J. Hughes Clarke, S. Blasco, K. Conway, P. Neelands, H. Thomas, and M. Côté. 2015. Active mud volcanoes on the continental slope of the Canadian Beaufort Sea. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16: 3160–3181. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GC005928
Sanamyan, N.P., K.E. Sanamyan, and L. Lundsten. 2015. Two new deepwater sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria) Sicyonis heliodiscus sp.n. (Actinostolidae) and Hormathia pacifica sp.n. (Hormathiidae) from Pacific. Invertebrate Zoology, 12: 131–149. https://doi.org/10.15298/invertzool.12.2.02
McClain, C.R., and L. Lundsten. 2014. Assemblage structure is related to slope and depth on a deep offshore Pacific seamount chain. Marine Ecology, 36(2): 210–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maec.12136
Lundsten, L. Carnivorous demosponge biology. In McGraw-Hill 2014 Yearbook of Science & Technology. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2014.
Taylor, J.R., A.P. DeVogelaere, E.J. Burton, O. Frey, L. Lundsten, L.A. Kuhnz, P.J. Whaling, C. Lovera, K.R. Buck, and J.P. Barry. 2014. Deep-sea faunal communities associated with a lost intermodal shipping container in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 83: 92–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.04.014
Duffy, G.A., L. Lundsten, L.A. Kuhnz, and C.K. Paull. 2014. A comparison of megafaunal communities in five submarine canyons off Southern California, USA. Deep Sea Research II, 104: 259–266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.06.002
Schlining, K., S. Von Thun, L. Kuhnz, B. Schlining, L. Lundsten, N. Jacobsen Stout, L. Chaney, and J. Connor. 2013. Debris in the deep: Using a 22-year video annotation database to survey marine litter in Monterey Canyon, Central California, USA. Deep Sea Research I, 79: 96–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2013.05.006
Lee, W.L., H.M. Reiswig, W.C. Austin, and L. Lundsten. 2012. An extraordinary new carnivorous sponge, Chondrocladia lyra, in the new subgenus Symmetrocladia (Demospongiae, Cladorhizidae), from off of northern California, USA. Invertebrate Biology, 131: 259–284. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12001
Lundsten, L., S.B. Johnson, G.M. Calliet, A.P. DeVogelaere, and D.A. Clague. 2012. Morphological, molecular, and in situ behavioral observations of the rare deep-sea anglerfish Chaunacops coloratus (Garman, 1899), order Lophiiformes, in the eastern North Pacific. Deep Sea Research I, 68: 46–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2012.05.012
Yoklavich, M., T. Laidig, L. Krigsman, A. Taylor, D. Watters, M. Love, L. Lundsten, and B. Negrete. 2011. A characterization of the coral and sponge community on Piggy Bank seamount in southern California from a survey using a remotely operated vehicle: a report to NOAA Deep-sea Coral Research and Technology Program, August 31, 2011. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.), 869: 1–63. https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/869
Lundsten, L., K.L. Schlining, K. Frasier, S.B. Johnson, L. Kuhnz, J. Harvey, G. Clague, and R.C. Vrijenhoek. 2010. Time-series analysis of six whale-fall communities in Monterey Canyon, California, USA. Deep-Sea Research Part I, 57: 1573–1584. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2010.09.003
McClain, C.R., L. Lundsten, J.P. Barry, and A. DeVogelaere. 2010. Assemblage structure, but not diversity or density, change with depth on a northeast Pacific seamount. Marine Ecology, 31 (Suppl.1): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2010.00367.x
Mah, C., M. Nizinski, and L. Lundsten. 2010. Phylogenetic revision of the Hippasterinae (Goniasteridae; Asteroidea): Systematics of deep sea corallivores, including one new genus and three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 160: 266–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00638.x
Clague, D., L. Lundsten, J. Hein, J. Paduan, and A. Davis. 2010. Spotlight 6: Davidson Seamount.. Oceanography, 23: 126–127.
McGann, M., R.C. Vrijenhoek, S. Johnson, J. Harvey, C.K. Paull, W. Ussler III, and L. Lundsten. 2010. Foraminiferal response to whale falls in the northeastern Pacific ocean. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Foraminifera, Bonn, Germany, 5–10 September 2010.
Lundsten, L., C.R. McClain, J.P. Barry, G.M. Cailliet, D. Clague, and A. DeVogelaere. 2009. Ichthyofauna on three seamounts off southern and central California, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 389: 223–232. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps08181
Lundsten, L., J.P. Barry, G.M. Caillet, D.A. Clague, A. DeVogelaere, and J.B. Geller. 2009. Benthic invertebrate communities on three seamounts off southern and central California, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 374: 23–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps07745
Williams, G.C., and L. Lundsten. 2009. The nephtheid soft coral genus Gersemia (Marenzeller, 1878) with the description of a new species from the northeast Pacific and a review of two additional species (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea). Zoologische Mededelingen, 83: 1067–1081.
McClain, C.R., L. Lundsten, M. Ream, J.P. Barry, and A. DeVogelaere. 2009. Endemicity, Biogeograhy, Composition, and Community Structure On a Northeast Pacific Seamount. PLoS ONE, 4: e4141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004141
Burton, E.J., and L. Lundsten. 2008. Davidson Seamount Taxonomic Guide. Marine Sanctuaries Conservation Series ONMS-08-08: 145.
Foster, M.S., L.M. McConnico, L. Lundsten, T. Wadsworth, T. Kimball, L.B. Brooks, M. Medina-Lopez, R. Riosmena-Rodriguez, G. Hernandez-Carmona, R.M. Vasquez-Elizondo, S. Johnson, and D.L. Steller. 2007. Diversity and natural history of a Lithothamnion muelleri-Sargassum horridum community in the Gulf of California. Ciencias Marinas, 33: 367–384.
Stoffers, P., T.J. Worthington, U. Schwarz-Schampera, M.D. Hannington, G.J. Massoth, R. Hekinian, M. Schmidt, L.J. Lundsten, L.J. Evans, R. Vaiomo'unga, and T. Kerby. 2006. Submarine volcanoes and high-temperature hydrothermal venting on the Tonga arc, southwest Pacific. Geology, 34: 453–456. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G22227.1