GUEST INTERVIEW: Peter Rona on the Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges
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By , on December 30th, 2011 Leave a comment   Geology, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , , , , , , , ,  

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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I Like Sills But Not A Fan Of The Popular Or My Friend’s Ex
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By , on December 15th, 2010 Leave a comment   Environmental Sciences, Geology, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , , , , , ,  

I’m a contrarian.  Majority consensus makes me shudder.  I just like rooting for underdogs*.  Those undersea ridges at the boundaries of tectonic plates, spewing molten magma to form new crust are o’ so popular these days. Spreading plate boundaries…meh.  What I do like is new research basically stating, and I am paraphrasing here, that spreading . . . → Read More: I Like Sills But Not A Fan Of The Popular Or My Friend’s Ex

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Expedition to Find “Oases of Life” on Mid-Cayman Rise
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By , on October 5th, 2009 Leave a comment   Expeditions, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , ,  

[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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