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  • Gridded multibeam bathymetry of the Saudi Arabian Red Sea collected during the 2022 Red Sea Decade Expedition (funded by the National Center for Wildlife, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). The QPS Qimera software license was provided by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) through baseline funding awarded to Francesca Benzoni (BAS/1/1090-01-01). The dataset includes one 40 m resolution model covering the full deep-water survey area, acquired by the Kongsberg EM 304 aboard the M/V OceanXplorer (OCX), and four 5 m resolution models of shallow-water bathymetry acquired by the Teledyne RESON SeaBat T50-P aboard Metalshark38 (MS), one per expedition Leg (L1 to L4).

  • (1) Understanding the thermal sensitivity of reproductive interactions is crucial given global warming. Previous studies have almost exclusively focused on interactions before mating, even though important interactions between the sexes also occur after mating (e.g., gamete interactions), which are likely affected by temperature. (2) Thus, it remains unknown how temperature affects the influence of female reproductive fluid on sperm performance, thereby altering female control over fertilization (cryptic female choice). This gap limits our understanding of how sexual selection changes with seasonal temperature fluctuations and temperatures outside the range of historical norms. (3) We tested how temperatures relevant to current conditions and climate change projections influence the mechanisms underlying cryptic female choice in a marine fish, Symphodus ocellatus. Under typical thermal conditions, female reproductive fluid enhances sperm velocity and biases fertilization dynamics to favor preferred, dominant males over sneaker males. (4) We find that warmer temperatures decrease female influence on sperm velocity, especially for dominant males. This results in dominant males having slower sperm than sneaker males at warmer temperatures, reducing the expected paternity of preferred, dominant males. (5) Our results highlight that considering the thermal sensitivity of female-male interactions that occur after mating will be essential for understanding how seasonal variation and climate change can influence fertility, reproduction, and sexual selection.

  • La Colonia Digital Archive: New Haven's Italian American Community, 1890–1930 is an open-access digital humanities project documenting the professional and civic life of New Haven's Italian American community between 1890 and 1930. The archive is based on Antonio Cannelli's La Colonia Italiana di New Haven (1921), a 373-page Italian-language volume combining a community Who's Who with a survival guide for new immigrants. Cannelli documented 248 individuals and more than 90 businesses, including physicians, attorneys, pharmacists, musicians, grocers, and bankers. Cannelli published his volume in 1921, the same year that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti went on trial for murder in Massachusetts; they were convicted on July 14, 1921, and sentenced to death in a case that became an international cause célèbre and a defining watershed of anti-immigrant sentiment directed specifically at Italians. The trial unfolded against a broader landscape of systematic exclusion: the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 had passed just months earlier, sharply restricting Southern and Eastern European immigration, and Italians faced sustained targeting, marginalization, and persistent characterization as unskilled, unassimilable, and threatening. Cannelli's documentation was deliberate advocacy in precisely this climate: a counter-narrative assembled to demonstrate the professional achievement, civic engagement, and cultural diversity and richness of a community that dominant American discourse refused to acknowledge. La Colonia Digital Archive makes that narrative searchable and accessible to researchers, descendants, and the general public, plotting archival documents and photographs onto contemporary maps of New Haven and the surrounding area. The archive is currently in active pre-launch development. Public release is planned for 2026, with ArcGIS StoryMap components to be added through 2026–2027.

  • Dataset of gamefish occurrences as compiled from the Connecticut Fishing Report (2006-2018) and Trophy Fish Report (2009-2018), both published by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Compiled as thesis project by Rebecca Hedreen for a Masters of Science in Biology from Southern Connecticut State University, with advisor Dr. Sean Grace.

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