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Happy 40th to black smoker vents
Happy 40th anniversary to black smoker vents! On April 21st,1979, deep sea explorers in the submersible HOV Alvin took the first ever photo of a "black smoker" hydrothermal vent.
Alvin at work during the 2019 Hot2Cold Vent expedition.
Photo:
Amy Gartman. © WHOI.
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Published: 12.06.2019
With support from the Meltzer Research Fund, Associate Professor Eoghan Reeves from the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research has been taking part in an NSF-funded international expedition "Hot2Cold" as it revisits microbial life and death on black smokers at the East Pacific Rise, 9°N. See the cruise blog for more details.