Dr. Joshua Voss is the Executive Director of NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, Research, and Technology and an Associate Research Professor at Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. His primary areas of interest include shallow and mesophotic coral reef ecology, coral health and disease, molecular ecology, marine conservation and management. Through Harbor Branch’s Robertson Coral Reef Program and CIOERT he works to discover, characterize, and protect coral reefs ecosystems. Voss is a certified technical diver and scuba instructor who has completed over 1500 scientific dives and led more than 35 scientific expeditions primarily in the Bahamas, Florida Keys, Dry Tortugas, Belize, Cuba, and Gulf of Mexico with additional investigations in Panama, Curacao, Bonaire, Dominica, USVI, and St. Eustatius. Voss teaches undergraduate courses in the Harbor Branch Semester by the Sea Program, graduate courses in the FAU Department of Biology, and molecular workshops for high school students. He also has served on various committees including the South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council Coral Advisory Panel, Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative Team and as co-lead of their Technical Advisory Committee, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Technical Advisory Committee, the South Florida Marine Research Hub, and FAU’s Diving and Boating Safety Committee. After growing up on the beaches of central Florida, Voss attended Elon University in North Carolina and completed a B.S. in Biology along with minors in Philosophy and Chemistry. He earned his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at Florida International University in Miami, and was a member of the Marine Science faculty at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg before joining FAU Harbor Branch.

  Please note that only publications relevant to mesophotic reefs are indexed.

	Population connectivity among shallow and mesophotic Montastraea cavernosa corals in the Gulf of Mexico identifies potential for refugia | article Studivan MS, Voss JD (2018) Coral Reefs
	Assessment of Mesophotic Coral Ecosystem Connectivity for Proposed Expansion of a Marine Sanctuary in the Northwest Gulf of Mexico: Population Gene... | article Studivan MS, Voss JD (2018) Front Mar Sci
	Assessment of Mesophotic Coral Ecosystem Connectivity for Proposed Expansion of a Marine Sanctuary in the Northwest Gulf of Mexico: Larval Dynamics | article Garavelli L, Studivan MS, Voss JD, Kuba A, Figueiredo J, Chérubin LM (2018) Front Mar Sci
	Montastraea cavernosa corallite structure demonstrates distinct morphotypes across shallow and mesophotic depth zones in the Gulf of Mexico | article Studivan MS, Milstein G, Voss JD (2019) PLoS ONE 14:e0203732
	CUBA’S MESOPHOTIC CORAL REEFS AND ASSOCIATED FISH COMMUNITIES | article Reed JK, González-Díaz P, Busutil L, Farrington S, Daranas BM, Rojas DC, Voss J, Diaz C, David A, Hanisak DM, Mendez JG, Rodríguez AG, González- Sánchez PM, Fernández JV, Pérez DE, Studivan M, Drummond F, Jiang M, Pomponi SA (2018) REVISTA DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS 38:60-129
	Evidence of photoacclimatization at mesophotic depths in the coral-Symbiodinium symbiosis at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary and McGr... | article Polinski JM, Polinski JM, Voss JD (2018) Coral Reefs 37:779–789
	Depth Influences Symbiodiniaceae Associations Among Montastraea cavernosa Corals on the Belize Barrier Reef | article Eckert RJ, Reaume AM, Sturm AB, Studivan MS, Voss JD (2020) Front Microbiol
	Transcriptomic plasticity of mesophotic corals among natural populations and transplants of Montastraea cavernosa in the Gulf of Mexico and Belize | article Studivan MS, Voss JD (2020) Mol Ecol 29:2399-2415
	Populations of the coral species Montastraea cavernosa on the Belize Barrier Reef lack vertical connectivity | article Eckert RJ, Studivan MS, Voss JD (2019) Sci Rep 9:7200
	The Mesoamerican Reef | chapter Gress E, Voss JD, Eckert RJ, Rowlands G, Andradi-Brown DA (2019) in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019) by Yossi L, Puglise KA, Bridge T
	Pulley Ridge, Gulf of Mexico, USA | chapter Reed JK, Farrington S, David A, Harter S, Pomponi SA, Diaz MC, Voss JD, Spring KD, Hine AC, Kourafalou VH, Smith RH, Vaz AC, Paris CB, Hanisak MD (2019) in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems, Coral Reefs of the World (Springer) by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL
	Population genetic structure of the great star coral, Montastraea cavernosa, across the Cuban archipelago with comparisons between microsatellite a... | article Sturm AB, Eckert RJ, Méndez JG, González-Díaz P, Voss JD (2020) Sci Rep 10:1-15
	Key questions for research and conservation of mesophotic coral ecosystems and temperate mesophotic ecosystems | chapter Turner JA, Andradi-Brown DA, Gori A, Bongaerts P, Burdett HL, Ferrier-Pagès C, Voolstra CR, Weinstein DK, Bridge TCL, Costantini F, Gress E, Laverick J, Loya Y, Goodbody-Gringley G, Rossi S, Taylor ML, Viladrich N, Voss JD, Williams J, Woodall LC, Eyal G (2019) in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems () by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL
	Depth-dependent genetic structuring of a depth-generalist coral and its Symbiodiniaceae algal communities at Campeche Bank, Mexico | article Sturm AB, Eckert RJ, Carreiro AM, Simoes N, Voss JD (2022) Front Mar Sci 9:835789
	Population genetic structure of the broadcast spawning coral, Montastraea cavernosa, demonstrates refugia potential of upper mesophotic populations... | article Sturm AB, Eckert RJ, Carreiro AM, Voss JD (2022) Coral Reefs 41:587-598
	Does depth divide? Variable genetic connectivity patterns among shallow and mesophotic Montastraea cavernosa coral populations across the Gulf of M... | article Sturm AB, Eckert RJ, Carreiro AM, Klein AM, Studivan MS, Dodge Farelli D, Simões N, González‐Díaz P, González Méndez J, Voss JD (2023) Ecol Evol 13:e10622
	Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of Cuba | chapter Reed JK, González-Díaz P, Voss JD, Busutil L, Diaz C, Pomponi SA, Farrington S, Cobián-Rojas D, David A, Martínez-Daranas B, Hanisak MD, González Mendez J, Sturm AB, González Sánchez PM, García Hernández MR, Viamontes Fernández J, Jiang M, Laverick JH, Zlatarski VN (2023) in: Coral Reefs of the World (Springer) by Zlatarski VN, Reed JK, Pomponi SA, Brooke S, Farrington S,

  SCUBA (open-circuit or unspecified)
  Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)
  Manned Submersible
  Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
  Sonar / Multibeam
  Snorkeling
  Aquarium-based
  In-situ instrumentation