ME52A:
Recent Deepwater Geological and Biological Discoveries in the Central, Southern, and Western Pacific Ocean II
ME52A:
Recent Deepwater Geological and Biological Discoveries in the Central, Southern, and Western Pacific Ocean II
Recent Deepwater Geological and Biological Discoveries in the Central, Southern, and Western Pacific Ocean II
Session ID#: 37345
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 ship Okeanos Explorer just completed its 3-year CAPSTONE campaign to investigate the deep waters of the US Pacific Monuments, the Schmidt Ocean Institute's ship R/VFalkor has 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:
Surveys of Biological Communities on Ferromanganese-Encrusted Guyots in the Prime Crust Zone (315890)
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