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