Continuing Projects

Cavanaugh (Harvard University)
Environmental transmission in the hydrothermal vent vestimentiferan-chemoautotroph symbiosis: Stalking the wild symbiont

Embley & Chadwick (NOAA/PMEL)
Expanding monitoring capabilities at the NeMO seafloor observatory: Real-time and time-series deformation measurements at an active volcano

Schaeffer et. al. (The Pennsylvania State University)
Physiological and molecular ecology of a North East Pacific hydrothermal vent ecosystem engineer

Smith (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Succession and seep affinities of large-whale, kelp and wood fall communities on the California slope

Zierenberg & Lilley (Univ. of California, Davis, Univ. of Washington)
Temporal variation and drilling induced changes in hydrothermal fluids at a phase separated hydrothermal site in Escanaba Trough

New Projects

Wilcock, Brown & Hilton (University of Washington, Scripps)
High-resolution measurements of temporal variability in fluid fluxes and chemistry from cold seeps: First deployments of a suite of new instruments.

Gill & Stakes (UC Santa Cruz, MBARI)
The geological and geochemical development of Endeavour Axial Ridge Volcano

Goldfinger (Oregon State University)
Illuminating ancient shorelines in southern California: High-resolution investigation of recent tectonics

Lee (Washington State University)
Extreme thermal tolerance in the hydrothermal vent sulfide worm Paralvinella sulfincola

Reimers (Oregon State University)
Electrochemical energy harvesting and chemical fluxes from gas hydrate sediments

Sloan (Colorado School of Mines)
Are in situ ocean hydrates analogs of laboratory hydrates?

Syms, Carr & Levin (University of California - Santa Cruz, NMFS)
Conservation of nearshore fishes: The role of movement, habitat structure, and density in determining effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas