| Lecturer |
General lecture title |
Scientific lecture title |
| 2008 |
| Chuck Fisher, Pennsylvania State University |
Evolutionary Adaptation to Extreme Environments |
Chemoautotrophic symbioses: Making the Best of a Potentially Toxic Environment |
| Julie Huber, Marine Biology Lab, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
Pushing the Limits: Microbial Life at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents |
Microbial Ecology of Subseafloor Crustal Communities |
| Debbie Smith, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
Strange Seafloor Domes Not All That Strange Anymore |
A graveyard of core complexes at the Equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge |
| Doug Wiens, Washington University in St. Louis |
Repaving the earth's surface |
Imaging mantle flow and melt production beneath backarc spreading centers and island arcs |
| 2007 |
| Jim Childress, UC Santa Barbara |
Not a Redwood Forest: Explorations of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Ecosystems Around the World |
The future is uncertain and the end is always near: Studies on the physiological ecology of deep-sea hydrothermal vent animals |
| Gary Massoth |
Mid-Ocean ridges and more of the Pacific: Deep quest for the fluids that make it that way |
Hydrothermal contributions from the far side: Way out arcs weigh in |
| Mike Perfit, University of Florida |
Chasing Mid-Ocean Ridge Eruptions: Deep-Sea Forensics |
Mid-Ocean Ridge Volcanism on the East Pacific Rise:Two Decades of Integrated Volcanologic, Geophysical and Geochemical Studies |
| Doug Toomey, University of Oregon |
Under the Volcano |
Segmentation of the East Pacific Rise: All Skewed Up |
| 2006 |
| Daniel Fornari, WHOI |
Revealing the Deep: The 21st Century Revolution in Ocean Science and Technology |
High-resolution Imaging and Mapping of the Mid-Ocean Ridge Crest: Correlating Spatial and Temporal Processes at Hydrothermal Vents |
| Chris German, WHOI |
Oases for Deep-Ocean Life: Hydrothermal Exploration on Earth – and Beyond |
Excitement at Slow-Spreading Ridges: The Case of Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents |
| Peter Girguis, Harvard |
The Diminutive Side of Giant Tubeworms, Colossal Clams, and Slippery Worms: How Microbes Feed the Animal Communities at Hydrothermal Vents |
Carbon and Nitrogen Biogeochemical Cycling by Hydrothermal Vent Chemoautotrophic Symbioses |
| Maya Tolstoy, Lamont |
Exploring the Deep Ocean: Using Sound to Learn about the Dark Depths |
Earthquakes and Life: Understanding the Linkages at Mid-Ocean Ridges and Beyond |
| 2005 |
| Ed Baker, NOAA |
Unseen volcanoes: new perspectives in ocean exploration |
Global distribution of seafloor hydrothermal vent fields |
| Melanie Holland, Arizona State University |
Seafloor volcanoes, surly bison and the ecology of life in boiling water |
The mid-ocean ridge subseafloor: prime microbial real estate |
| Deborah Kelley, University of Washington |
Discovery of the Lost City hydrothermal field: implications for life in the oceans of our solar system |
Life within the Endeavour system: one of the most extreme environments on Earth |
| Ken Macdonald, University of California Santa Barbara |
10,000 leagues under the sea: deep dives to explore the underwater volcanoes of the global mid-ocean ridge |
Linkages between tectonics, volcanism, hydrothermal activity, vent animals and segmentation on mid-ocean ridges |
| 2004 |
| Andrew Fisher, University of California Santa Cruz |
Rivers of fluid and heat within the seafloor: the ocean below the ocean |
Large-scale lateral fluid flow within oceanic crust and the importance of seamounts in driving global circulation |
| Charles Langmuir, Harvard University |
Is intelligent life a natural consequence of planetary evolution? |
Historic Arctic cruise yields new constraints on ocean ridge formation |
| Margaret Kingston Tivey, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
The interplay of geology, physics, chemistry and biology in seafloor hydrothermal vent systems |
Using in-situ measurements and geochemical models to identify the range of environmental conditions present within seafloor vent deposits |
| Cindy Lee Van Dover, College of William and Mary |
Beyond the Edge of the Sea: volcanoes and life in the deep ocean |
Deep-sea hot springs: a shrimp’s eye views |
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