Project Summaries

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Lead PI Name	Institution/Affiliation	Project Title
Bemis, Karen	Rutgers University - Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences	Impact of plume entrainment on the transport and distribution of heat and particles in hydrothermal vent fields
Bryce, Julie	University New Hampshire	Archiving the Karen Von Damm Legacy Hydrothermal Fluid Collection
Dziak, Bob	Oregon State University/NOAA	Collaborative Research: Real-Time Volcanic Event Detection on Northeast Pacific Spreading Centers using Military Hydrophone Arrays
Garven, Grant	Tufts University	Collaborative Research: Geohydrologic Modeling of Diffuse and Focused Reactive Flow at the Endeavor & East Pacific Rise Integrated Study Sites
German, Chris	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Collaborative Research: Hydrothermal Fluxes and their Impact on the Ocean: Integrating Biogeochemistry, Microbiology & Physics at the R2K EPR ISS
Graham, David	Oregon State University - College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences	Degassing During a Seafloor Eruption along the Mid-Ocean Ridge: Helium, Argon and Carbon Isotopes in Basalts from the East Pacific Rise Integrated Study Site
Haymon, Rachel	University of California, Santa Barbara	Hydrothermal Chimney Time Series on the EPR Axis at 9º-10ºN from 1991-2008: A Petrologic Record of Hydrothermal System Evolution Through A Complete EPR Eruption Cycle
Hooft, Emilie	University of Oregon	Collaborative Research: Linking Stress Changes And Hydrothermal Activity During A Non- Eruptive Spreading Event
Johnson, Paul	University of Washington - School of Oceanography	Conductive Heat Flow Measurements to Test Models of Hydrothermal Fluid Circulation on the East Pacific Rise
Karson, Jeff	Syracuse University Department of Earth Sciences	Structural control of hydrothermal flow: A comparison between RIDGE2000 sites and Iceland spreading centers
Kelley, Deb	University of Washington - School of Oceanography	Collaborative Research: A synthesis of process linkages among magmatic, tectonic and hydrothermal activity at the Endeavour Segment ISS
Kilb, Debi	Scripps Institution of Oceanography - University of California, San Diego	Visual Integration and Synthesis of RIDGE 2000 Multi-Dimensional (4-D) Datasets
Lee, Ray	Washington State University	Dynamics of macrofaunal communities at Juan de Fuca Ridge vents: Community mapping in ArcGIS and image feature extraction
Lilley, Marv	University of Washington - School of Oceanography	Collaborative Research: Synthesis and Comparison of the Processes Controlling Volatiles at the Endeavour and 9°N Integrated Study Sites
Lowell, Bob	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Collaborative Research: Integrated Model of Magma-Hydrothermal Processes at the East Pacific Rise near 9 50 N
Reves-Sohn, Rob	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Statistical Analyses of Seismicity and Fluid Flow at the Endeavour, EPR 9N, and TAG Hydrothermal Fields
Richmond, Courtney	Rowan University	Collaborative Research: theoretical and empirical testing of influences on the hydrothermal vent benthic community distributions of the Lau back-arc basin
Rogers, Karyn	University of Missouri	Organic Sulfur Metabolisms in Hydrothermal Vent Systems
Rubin, Ken	University of Hawaii - SOEST	RECENT RIDGE ERUPTIVE ACTIVITY DATING AND INVESTIGATIONS - 3: TCS Eruption dating readiness and decadal magmatic timing studies for the EPR ISS
Schultz, Adam	Oregon State University - College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences	Collaborative Research: Development and application of models of poroelastic deformation and permeability changes within hydrothermal/geothermal systems
Seewald, Jeff	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Collaborative Research: Characterization of Spatial and Temporal Relationships between Hydrothermal Activity and Microbial Dynamics at the Lau Back-arc Spreading Center
Shank, Tim	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Collaborative Research: Integrating Geological, Chemical, and Biological Processes: Implications for Ecological Succession on the East Pacific Rise
Shock, Everett	Arizona State University	RIDGE: Tipping Points in the Evolution of Submarine Hydrothermal Systems: Habitat Generation, Organic Transformations and Rock Alteration
Tivey, Meg	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Collaborative research at the Lau ISS: Integrating microbial diversity with geochemistry using heat and mass transport models
Tolstoy, Maya	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University	Collaborative Research: Reconciling and Interpreting Indicators of Eruption Timing at the East Pacific Rise through Integration and Modeling