Vent and Seep Biota

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This theme focuses on the little studied macrofauna of deep sea systems. In the extreme environments around hydrothermal vents researchers are discovering specialised communities of unusual organisms, most of which have not been found anywhere else on earth.

Vent and Seep Biota scientists:

Hans Tore Rapp (Theme Leader)
Joana Xavier (Postdoc)
Adriana Alvizu (PhD student)
Christine Rooks (Postdoc)
Mari Heggernes Eilertsen (PhD student)
Alexander Plotkin (PhD student)
Bernt Ryland Olsen (Researcher)
Jon Hestetun (PhD student)
Francisca Carvalho (PhD student)

Scanning electron micoscope image of a sponge spicule

Sorting through the macrofauna sample for organisms of interest aboard the G.O. Sars

About Vent and Seep Biota

Vent communities based around specialised bacteria use chemical processes generating energy required to make biological compounds.

Research Overview

See what projects the Vent and Seep Biota theme is working on now! (Updated June 2014)

Theme Goals and Methods

The questions and objectives the theme pursues and the main methods they use in their research

24.09.2015