East Pacific Rise Upcoming Cruises

Following is a table containing the upcoming cruises at this ISS. The dates, ship/vehicle, funding agency/program, project and PI(s) are listed. If you have a question or are interested in working on one of these cruises, please contact the listed PI(s). If there are updates/changes that need to be made to the cruise information, please contact the Ridge 2000 Office.

Date Ship Days/Funding Agency PIs/Project/Award
18 Oct-02 Nov 2009 R/V Atlantis 20/NSF-OCE-ODP/F D. Lizarralde/Off-axis sills of Guaymas Basin: Implications for thermogenic-carbon flux of a sedimented rift basin/0751901
07 Nov-17 Nov 2009 R/V Atlantis 9/NSF-OCE-BIO/F A.-L. Reysenbach/Distribution and diversity of thermoacidophiles from deep-sea vents/0728391
6/NSF-OCE-BIO/F M. Tivey/Using thermocouple arrays to investigate temporal and spatial microbial colonization in actively forming hydrothermal vent deposits/0751839
22 Nov-06 Dec 2009 R/V Atlantis 18/NSF-OCE-BIO/F A. Teske/Microbial carbon and sulfur cycling in the hydrothermally altered sediments of Guaymas Basin/0647633
1/NSF-OCE-BIO/F M. Tivey/Using thermocouple arrays to investigate temporal and spatial microbial colonization in actively forming hydrothermal vent deposits/0751839
16 Dec-01 Jan 2010 R/V Atlantis 8/NSF-OCE-MGG/F M. Cormier/Testing models of magma movement along the East Pacific Rise using combined geodetic and numerical experiments/0426575
7/NSF-OCE-MGG/F S. Nooner/Establishing a long-term geodetic network at the East Pacific Rise Ridge 2000 Integrated Studies Site/0647840
4/OTHER/F M. Bright/Succession of deep sea hydrothermal vent meiofauna after a recent eruption at the 9°50´N region of the East Pacific Rise/P20190-B17
0/OTHER/P JASON REQUESTED

Note: Data collected by these projects can be accessed via the Marine Geoscience Data Management System’s Ridge 2000 Data Portal.

For a list of all funded work, visit the Funded Projects page.