E/V Nautilus Mapping and ROV Dives Reveal Hundreds of Vents along the West Coast of the United States

Renato Kane1, Nicole Raineault1, Robert W Embley2, Susan G Merle3, Peter R Girguis4, Onni Irish5, Megan Lubetkin6, Christopher R German7, Lisa A Levin8, Marie-Helene Cormier9, Chris Caldow10, Ryan Freedman10 and Lindsay Gee11, (1)Ocean Exploration Trust, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)Oregon State University, CIMRS, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystem and Resource Studies, Newport, United States, (4)Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping Joint Hydrographic Center, Durham, NH, United States, (6)Bates College, Lewiston, ME, United States, (7)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (8)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (9)University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay, Narragansett, RI, United States, (10)NOAA National Ocean Service, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (11)Acoustic Imaging, Noosa, Australia
Scientific Team Name: Cruises: NA065, NA066, NA067, NA070, NA072, NA073, NA074, NA075, NA076, NA077, NA078