ME24B:
Recent Deepwater Geological and Biological Discoveries in the Central, Southern, and Western Pacific Ocean I Posters


Session ID#: 27894

Session Description:
The Pacific is the largest ocean on our planet and yet remains largely unexplored, particularly in the deep waters of the Central, Southern, and Western regions. However, there has been a recent spike in the amount of new information and research findings resulting from an increase in ships with deep-water vehicles operating in these regions. To name a few, the NOAA shipOkeanos Explorerjust completed its 3-year CAPSTONE campaign to investigate the deep waters of the US Pacific Monuments, the Schmidt Ocean Institute's ship R/VFalkorhas completed a variety of individual projects from Hawaii to the Mariana Back Arc, and the University of Hawaii ships have ongoing projects in the Emperor Seamounts. These efforts have largely focused on benthic biology and geology and with more limited scope, pelagic biology. Specific topics have included ferromanganese-encrusted seamount communities, deep-sea corals and fisheries, hydrothermal vents, subduction zones, back-arc geology, and the geologic history of seamounts on the Pacific plate. The information gleaned from these projects will hopefully be used to effectively motivate more research and to help manage ocean resources across the Pacific Ocean. This multidisciplinary session will consist of presentations of discoveries and initial syntheses of the expeditions’ results.
Primary Chair:  Christopher Kelley, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Co-chairs:  Diva Amon, Natural History Museum, London, London, UK, William Chadwick, Oregon State University/NOAA/PMEL, CIMRS, Newport, OR, United States and Randi Rotjan, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States
Moderators:  Christopher Kelley, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Diva Amon, Natural History Museum, London, London, UK
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Randi Rotjan, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
Index Terms:

3045 Seafloor morphology, geology, and geophysics [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3080 Submergence instruments: ROV, AUV, submersibles [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
4804 Benthic processes, benthos [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
9355 Pacific Ocean [GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION]
Cross-Topics:
  • B - Biodiversity
  • F - Fisheries
  • MG - Marine Geology and Sedimentology
  • RS - Regional Studies

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

CAPSTONE Observations on Cephalopod Reproduction: Interpretation and Speculation. (304366)
Michael Vecchione, NOAA NMFS National Systematics Lab, DC, United States
Surprises from the Deep: New and Unusual Crinoids (306566)
Charles G Messing, Nova Southeastern University, Dania Beach, FL, United States, Lenaïg G. Hemery, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, United States and Greg W. Rouse, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Hydrothermal Activity Along Back-Arc Spreading Centers: The Importance of Arc Proximity (306752)
Edward T Baker, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Seattle, WA, United States, Sharon L Walker, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, Joseph A Resing, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, William W. Chadwick Jr, Oregon State University, CIMRS, and NOAA/PMEL, Newport, WA, United States, Susan G. Merle, Oregon State University, CIMRS, Newport, OR, United States, Melissa O Anderson, GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and David A Butterfield, University of Washington, NOAA/PMEL, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Oceans,, Seattle, WA, United States
Newly Discovered Hydrothermal Vent Sites Along the Mariana Back-arc Spreading Center Support Hypothesis of Geological and Chemical Control on Chemosynthetic Ecosystems (313064)
William W. Chadwick Jr, Oregon State University, CIMRS, and NOAA/PMEL, Newport, WA, United States, Verena Tunnicliffe, University of Victoria, Deptartment of Biology/School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada, David A Butterfield, University of Washington, NOAA/PMEL, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Oceans,, Seattle, WA, United States, Amanda E. Bates, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, Julie A Huber, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert, Josephine Bay Paul Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Andra M Bobbitt, Oregon State University, CIMRS, and NOAA/PMEL, Newport, OR, United States and Susan G. Merle, Oregon State University, CIMRS, Newport, OR, United States
Flow characteristics of three Hawaiian deep sea coral beds (313129)
Frank Parrish1, Thomas Oliver2 and Jeanette Clarke2, (1)NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)Joint Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Research, Honolulu, HI, United States
The "CAPSTONE" Campaign: Three Years of Pacific Exploration Mapping by NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer (319465)
Elizabeth Lobecker, NOAA Camp Springs, Camp Springs, MD, United States and Michael White, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research via Cherokee Nation Strategic Programs, Durham, NH, United States
A Genomic DNA Collection to Facilitate Black Coral Research (322079)
Ann M Evankow, David Stein, Kerste Milik and Daniel L Distel, Northeastern University, Ocean Genome Legacy, Boston, MA, United States
Biodiversity, Biogeography, and Relationships of Deep-Water Coral-Symbiotic Fauna of the Seamounts in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) (326254)
Timothy M Shank1, Erik E Cordes2, Steven Auscavitch2, Taylor P Heyl3, Luke McCartin1, Elisabeth McElwee4, Christopher Kelley5 and Randi Rotjan6, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)NOAA Fisheries Woods Hole Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)University of Hawaii, Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, Honolulu, HI, United States, (6)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
New species of deep water octocoral from the northern Pacific Expeditions of the U.S. Fisheries Steamer Albatross in 1906 and JAMSTEC ROV dive in 2012 with the discussion of the current status of genus Calcigorgia. (326512)
Asako K. Matsumoto, Chiba Institute of Technology, Planetary Exploration Research Center (PERC), Chiba, Japan and Leen P. van Ofwegen, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands

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