Cumming Exploration

Dr. Leila Hamdan Associate Professor School of Ocean Science and Engineering, University of Southern Mississippi Leila Hamdan is an Associate Professor in the School of Ocean Science and Engineering at the University of Southern Mississippi. She received a… Read More

A Dive to the Deep A stowaway hides aboard a vessel as a means of free travel. During a nine-day expedition in the northern Gulf of Mexico led by the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) in collaboration with… Read More

Finding Creeps from the Deep As the Microbial Stowaways project fieldwork comes to a close, we reflect on what we discovered over the past week. Two copper-sheathed, wooden-hulled shipwrecks—Site 15711 and Site 15470—give us glimpses into life aboard… Read More