Hydrothermal Vents
Video Update: Back at Sea
With a little over one week left in Expedition 16 to Brothers volcano, there is a lot of science to report. Catch up on developments since we’ve returned to sea.
Read MoreAll the Volcanoes We Can’t See
“This whole story starts with plate tectonics,” says Cornel de Ronde, a co-Principal Investigator of the Brothers volcano expedition.
Read MoreInside Expedition 16
Take a look inside the first days of Expedition 16 to Brothers volcano and get behind the scenes with the people on R/V Thomas Thompson.
Read MoreJason is in the Water!
ROV Jason has been successfully deployed off the deck of R/V Thompson and is now conducting its first in a long series of missions.
Read MoreGodzilla, Sasquatch, and Homer Simpson: The Curious Names of Deep-sea Features
Hydrothermal vent fields and their individual chimneys may be places for serious scientific research, but some of their names come straight from science fiction.
Read MoreLooking for Microbes
Prof. Rachel Haymon and Dr. Patricia Holden, from the University of California – Santa Barbara, have an idea about how to look for microbes in active hydrothermal vent chimneys.
Read MoreBiogeography of deep-sea hydrothermal vent faunas
Small but mighty, bacteria live everywhere at hydrothermal vents.
Read MoreBacteria at Hydrothermal Vents
Learn about bacteria at hydrothermal vents, which inhabit almost everything: rocks, the seafloor, even the inside of animals like mussels.
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