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Acknowledgments

Our heartfelt thanks to Dr. Dante Fenolio for the use of his fabulous images in Life in the Open Ocean: The Biology of Pelagic Species. They enabled us to show structures such as eyes, photophores, barbels and lures as well as whole animal appearance with freshly captured specimens, a boon for descriptions and a treat for the reader. As we progressed through the animal groups, specific questions arose that our longtime colleagues gave us help with. Advice on all things fish came from Dr. Tracey Sutton; questions on neurophysiology and bioluminescence were covered by Drs. Tamara Frank and Edie Widder; crustacean help came from Drs. Scott Burghart, Robin Ross, and Langdon Quetin; Claudia Mills gave us help with classification in cnidarians and ctenophores; and Eileen Hofmann and John Klinck helped with Antarctic physical oceanography. Special thanks to Bruce Robison and Alice Alldredge for the opportunity to dive WASP and Deep Rover many years ago. JJT would like to thank George Somero for a great sabbatical year and much biochemical advice over the years and Jim Childress for being the deep‐sea sage that he is. Many thanks to our friend Ms. Cynthia Brown who obtained many important publications for us as head of the interlibrary loan office at USF St. Petersburg.

Study of open‐ocean biology requires going to sea in ships, and running a trawling or diving program at sea requires a team. As one progresses from being a participant in early days to principal investigator, field‐team leader, and chief scientist, the teams change, as do the ships, the nets, and if you’re really lucky, the submersibles. But, also if you’re lucky, you get to keep a few colleagues for several years. Foremost among those for JJT was his longtime research associate Joe Donnelly, colleague over two decades, and his co‐principal investigator Dr. Tom Hopkins, peerless zooplankton biologist and expert on the zooplankton fauna in three oceanic systems. For TGB his tireless research associate and good friend Gary Owen as well the crews of the ships and Johnson‐Sea‐Link submersibles at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution provided invaluable support throughout his research career. All our colleagues mentioned above were with us on multiple cruises as well. JJT would like to thank my many graduate students, most of whom went to sea with me several times, some to the Antarctic, some to the Gulf of Mexico, some to the Caribbean, and some to Cariaco Basin. All are remembered here, and the reader will see their names many times in the text. In several cases, we were one science party in a multidisciplinary science team, examples of which were the AMERIEZ program discussed in the text, and the Southern Ocean GLOBEC program. Lastly, all the science teams were aboard research vessels, and the captains and crews of those vessels, and in the Antarctic our science liaison officers, made everything possible. Thanks to all.

Lastly, the authors would like to thank the National Science Foundation and NOAA's National Undersea Research Program for funding our research over many years. Without their support, the research reported in here would have never happened, and not only ours but that of the multiple other labs whose research is cited in the book. Special recognition to Dr. G. Richard Harbison, exceptional gelatinous zooplankton biologist and never‐ending source of good humor who has crossed the rainbow bridge. We miss him.