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Submarine Ring of Fire - Mariana Arc 2006
A continuing effort by the Submarine Ring of Fire team to explore the submarine portions of the intra-oceanic volcanic arcs of the western Pacific. The 2004 dive program on the Mariana Arc was extraordinarily rich in discoveries. Highlights of the expeditions include: (1) the first observations and sampling of an actively erupting submarine arc volcano; (2) the discovery of a field of copiously discharging "CO2 vents" emitting droplets of liquid CO2 (only the second such site found anywhere), surrounded by an ecosystem of apparently high biological productivity; (3) the discovery of overlapping chemosynthetic and photosynthetic ecosystems on a shallow volcano; and (4) the recovery of at least 10 new macrofauna species at the various volcanoes. The first year of this proposal (2005) is a collaborative program with two New Zealand research groups to use the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratories PISCES IV and V human occupied vehicles to dive on hydrothermally active volcanoes of the Kermadec Arc lying northeast of New Zealand. Together with our New Zealand collaborators, dives will be made on 6 or 7 volcanoes. An international, interdisciplinary team of geologists, chemists, microbiologists and macrobiologists will comprise the science team.
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| description | A continuing effort by the Submarine Ring of Fire team to explore the submarine portions of the intra-oceanic volcanic arcs of the western Pacific. The 2004 dive program on the Mariana Arc was extraordinarily rich in discoveries. Highlights of the expeditions include: (1) the first observations and sampling of an actively erupting submarine arc volcano; (2) the discovery of a field of copiously discharging "CO2 vents" emitting droplets of liquid CO2 (only the second such site found anywhere), surrounded by an ecosystem of apparently high biological productivity; (3) the discovery of overlapping chemosynthetic and photosynthetic ecosystems on a shallow volcano; and (4) the recovery of at least 10 new macrofauna species at the various volcanoes. The first year of this proposal (2005) is a collaborative program with two New Zealand research groups to use the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratories PISCES IV and V human occupied vehicles to dive on hydrothermally active volcanoes of the Kermadec Arc lying northeast of New Zealand. Together with our New Zealand collaborators, dives will be made on 6 or 7 volcanoes. An international, interdisciplinary team of geologists, chemists, microbiologists and macrobiologists will comprise the science team. |
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| issued | 2006-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
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[ "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans", "Map Ocean Characteristics/Bathymetry", "Marine Life Inventories", "New Ocean Resources", "Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory", "University of Washington", "Oregon State University", "New Zealand Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences", "New Zealand Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research", "Ocean Exploration", "ring of fire", "intra oceanic volcanic arcs", "volcano", "rov", "mgln02mv", "magellan leg 02 melville", "expedition", "exploration", "explorer", "marine education", "noaa", "ocean discovery", "ocean education", "ocean exploration", "ocean exploration and research", "ocean literacy", "ocean research", "science", "scientific mission", "sea", "stewardship", "systematic exploration", "technology", "transformational research", "undersea", "underwater", "Mariana Arc", "Pacific Ocean", "Western Pacific Ocea" ] |
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2006-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
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{ "name": "NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information", "@type": "org:Organization" } |
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| spatial | 149.0,11.0,140.0,26.0 |
| temporal | 2006-04-18T00:00:00+00:00/2006-05-13T00:00:00+00:00 |
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[ "geospatial" ] |
| title | Submarine Ring of Fire - Mariana Arc 2006 |
