Submarine Ring of Fire - Mariana Arc 2006

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A continuing effort by the Submarine Ring of Fire team to explore the submarine portions of the intra-oceanic volcanic arcs of the western Pacific. The 2004 dive program on the Mariana Arc was extraordinarily rich in discoveries. Highlights of the expeditions include: (1) the first observations and sampling of an actively erupting submarine arc volcano; (2) the discovery of a field of copiously discharging "CO2 vents" emitting droplets of liquid CO2 (only the second such site found anywhere), surrounded by an ecosystem of apparently high biological productivity; (3) the discovery of overlapping chemosynthetic and photosynthetic ecosystems on a shallow volcano; and (4) the recovery of at least 10 new macrofauna species at the various volcanoes. The first year of this proposal (2005) is a collaborative program with two New Zealand research groups to use the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratories PISCES IV and V human occupied vehicles to dive on hydrothermally active volcanoes of the Kermadec Arc lying northeast of New Zealand. Together with our New Zealand collaborators, dives will be made on 6 or 7 volcanoes. An international, interdisciplinary team of geologists, chemists, microbiologists and macrobiologists will comprise the science team.

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21 welcome.html https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06fire/welcome.html
21 mapsOE.htm https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/oer-digital-atlas/mapsOE.htm
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  • new zealand institute of geological and nuclear sciences
  • intra oceanic volcanic arcs
  • magellan leg 02 melville
  • ocean discovery
  • ocean research
  • explorer
  • transformational research
  • ocean education
  • underwater
  • stewardship
  • oceans
  • marine life inventories
  • marine education
  • mgln02mv
  • new zealand institute for water and atmospheric research
  • noaa
  • volcano
  • university of washington
  • western pacific ocea
  • oregon state university
  • ocean literacy
  • undersea
  • ocean exploration and research
  • earth science
  • systematic exploration
  • map ocean characteristics/bathymetry
  • ocean exploration
  • ring of fire
  • sea
  • mariana arc
  • technology
  • pacific marine environmental laboratory
  • exploration
  • new ocean resources
  • science
  • pacific ocean
  • rov
  • expedition
  • scientific mission

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