Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 188, 2010. Editor’s Note: The following interview was conducted by Colin Schultz for American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) member publication Eos. AGU and Colin have been kind enough to let Deep Sea News reprint the interview for our readers! Peter Rona is a legend in hydrothermal vent research. Colin Schultz, Diversity of . . . → Read More: GUEST INTERVIEW: Peter Rona on the Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges
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By Archie Teuthis, on  December 30th, 2011  One comment  Geology, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls  AGU, American Geophysical Union, Book, chemosynthesis, Colin Schultz, Hydrothermal Vents, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, minerals, Seafloor Spreading, Spreading Center, TAG, Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse By Kevin Zelnio, on November 15th, 2011 6 comments Adaptations, Organisms, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Hydrothermal Vents, Neptune Canada, pycnogonid, sea spider, time lapse Our friends at Neptune Canada have posted this time-lapse video on their Youtube Page. Note the zillions of sea spiders (Pycnogonids), this is a feature of the Northwest Pacific vent province, we rarely see so many pycnogonids at other vents around the world. Sea spiders, tubeworms, scaleworms, limpets and snails crawl about in a . . . → Read More: What 1 hour of Deep-Sea Vent Life Looks Like in 2 Minutes
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 14th, 2011 Leave a comment Expeditions, Life At Sea, Organisms, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls deep sea, Field Museum, Hydrothermal Vents, Janet Voight, Mollusc, Wood Dr. Janet Voight of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago talks about exploring deep sea ecosystems and her research on deep sea marine invertebrates. Many of these images are familiar to me as I was generously invited to participate on a cruise to hydrothermal vents in 2003 by her while I was merely . . . → Read More: Janet Voight: In 1860s “Educated People Could Not Envision” Life on the Seafloor
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 8th, 2010 9 comments Adaptations, Evolution, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Organisms, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Anders Warén, Best of Zelnio, Brooding, Chemoautotrophy, Hydrothermal Vents, ifremeria, larvae What hid’st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells? Thou hollow-sounding and mysterious main! – Pale glistening pearls, and rainbow-colour’d shells, Bright things which gleam unreck’d-of, and in vain! – Keep, keep thy riches, melancholy sea! We ask not such from thee Felicia Hemans, 1827 The Treasures of the Deep Just when you think you have . . . → Read More: First New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878
By Dr. M, on July 5th, 2010 2 comments Mining, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls conservation, deep sea, deep-sea mining, Hydrothermal Vent, Hydrothermal Vents, mining, Nautilus, PNG Deep-sea mining as been our radar for awhile. Now it’s on NYT’s Green Blog. Put it on yours. The Chinese government announces plans for deep-sea mining; it will seek copper, nickel and cobalt 5,000 feet down in international waters. Prior DSN posts about mining the seafloor NIOT will starts the next phase of fields trials . . . → Read More: On Our Radar: Deep-Sea Mining
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 5th, 2009 Leave a comment Expeditions, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Caymans, Hydrothermal Vents, Mid-Cayman Rise, R/V Cape Hatteras, Spreading Center [mappress] Follow a new expedition to discover, document and dive on the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center. The R/V Cape Hatteras left port here at Duke Marine Lab last week to go south to Florida and then the Cayman Islands. An international team will be undertaking the first exploration of this ridge and hoping to find chemoautotrophic . . . → Read More: Expedition to Find “Oases of Life” on Mid-Cayman Rise
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