Rutgers explorer describes sea floor hot springs as teeming with valuable minerals and microbes
... a picture is emerging of a vast system of natural undersea dynamos, fueled by hot springs, that produce not o...The public will have an opportunity to view Rona's undersea work in a giant-screen film to be released later this year, entitled "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea," pr...Research finds life 1000 feet beneath ocean floor
...suggesting biological activity in a high-pressure, undersea location far from the types of carbon or energy sources upon which most life on Earth is based. It was one of the most precise biological samplings ever taken from deep under the ocean floor, scientists say. "This is one of the best views we've ever...... tsunamis and cause costly damage to pipelines and undersea cables, may be caused by hydrate dissociation and sediment failure; that is, landslides may occur if the substrate becomes lubricated when the crystalline form reverts to gas and water. If we exploit the resource, are we exacerbating the problem? ......n (WHOI) in Massachusetts and will be connected by undersea cables to WHOI's Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO). "No one has ever built this kind of thing before. Understanding how the ocean and atmosphere interact under all conditions, and understanding the factors that affect the exchange of energ...Undersea data network planned for Monterey Bay
...Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, to set up an undersea data network for oceanographic research in Montere...esearch System (MARS), the network will consist of undersea cables and docking stations to provide power and high-speed data links for a variety of oceanographi...Expedition to explore remarkable deep-sea mountain
...wn about what lives on the slopes of these ancient undersea volcanoes. Beginning Friday, May 17, the secrets of one seamount will be revealed. A team of researchers from four marine science institutions will explore the Davidson Seamount 1,300 meters (4,000 feet) below the ocean's surface off California's Big...April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...ns. These results help us to better understand how undersea ridges like the Juan de Fuca form. Towering sponges in an Early Cambrian Lagersttte: Disparity between nonbilaterian and bilaterian epifaunal tierers at the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition. Xunlai Yuan et al. Nanjing Institute of Geology and Pal...Keck Foundation awards $750,000 grant to Northeastern University to fund 3D fusion microscope
...iological specimens, but also looking underground, undersea and inside the body. Expertise from these seemingly different fields will be brought to bear on images from the microscope, and these fields will benefit from the knowledge gained with the microscope. As an example, one of the key technologies of the...URI oceanography models migration and foraging strategies of North Atlantic right whales
...h as the coastline, the continental shelf edge, or undersea landmarks such as seamounts, during their migration between their wintering grounds and their feeding grounds in the Gulf of Maine region. Studies have also suggested that whales use the sun or the Earths magnetic field for migratory cues. Right whal...Healy researchers make a series of striking discoveries about Arctic Ocean
.... They also believe that conditions in a field of undersea vents, known as "black smokers," could support previously unknown species of marine life. The findings were among a range of discoveries made by researchers aboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy, an icebreaker equipped for science, and a companion ...Ocean frontier revealed: scientists to describe unexpected discoveries of arctic research cruise
...tivity along the Gakkel Ridge including a field of undersea vents. The science party also dredged up sponges and other marine life previously not known to survive in the frigid Arctic waters; used sonar to map the ridge at a level of detail that was thought impossible aboard a working icebreaker; and was abl...Researchers find glass-eating microbes at the rock bottom of the food chain
...flows (scientists call super-cooled lava spewed by undersea volcanoes "glass," which is similar to material used to make stone-age axes and knives). Glass samples were recovered by drilling as deep as four miles below sea level. "Weve documented how extensive these microscopic organisms are eating into volcan...Rutgers scientists to explore ocean depths off New York-New Jersey harbor
... of marine geology and geophysics at Rutgers, past undersea investigations show that the canyon has great potential for discovery of unusual deep sea creatures that may provide insight into how life began on earth as well as life that might be found elsewhere in the cosmos. "Surveys have shown an impressive ...Saving Florida's gentle giants
...nally developed for the detection and disarming of undersea explosive mines," says ONR Program Manager Wallace Smith. "It's good to see a commercial civilian application of this Defense technology to protect marine mammals. "The goal would be to eventually have all of Florida's canal and gate locks fitted wi...Huge new hydrothermal vent system found on seafloor
..."The Lost City," was discovered December 5th on an undersea mountain in the Atlantic Ocean. The unexpected discovery occurred at 30 degrees North on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge during an oceanographic cruise aboard the research vessel Atlantis. A team of scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, D...2000 FALL MEETING: updated press conferences, press registration, and other information
...ion years ago. Now, new results are available from undersea sampling of the crater, and plans will be discussed for the upcoming deep drilling of the impact crater and through a thick section of impactites, the crystalline material produced by the fusion of an impacting meteorite with local rock. It is antici...Team led by MSU biologist finds bacteria deep in Antarctic ice
...other extreme environments,such as hot vents along undersea trenches, deep in the earth's subsurface and in geothermal poolslike those in Yellowstone National Park. And if microbes exist on other planets, such as in the frozen ocean thought to exist onJupiter's moon Europa, finding them could be similar to ......tions such as those now found in hot springs or in undersea thermal vents, the book is notunanimous on this point. In fact, a chapter written by Stanley Miller of UC-LaJolla and Antonio Lazcano of the University of Mexico argues that life did notand could not have begun at the growth temperatures of hyperther...Montana And Other Scientists Report On Life In The Ice
...e scientist have found life include hotvents along undersea trenches, deep in the earth's subsurface and in hotsprings. "Up to now people haven't looked in fresh water ice," Fritsen said."They've looked in sea ice, and now scientists are talking about drilling intoglaciers." Priscu said the ...Increasing Frequency Of El Nino Takes Toll On Northern Hemisphere's Only Penguins
...eed. Typically a Cromwell current, basically adeep undersea cold-water river, is forced to the top by underwater volcanoes inthe area of Fernandina and Isabella islands, where the penguins live. Thecurrent carries nutrients that sustain zooplankton and phytoplankton, whichattract the fish. But during El Nino,...