Anemone_HPIES2
A pom-pom anemone at Axial Base, moving around the legs of the HPIES instrument. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; V19
June 17, 2019
Tag: Axial Biology
Octopus_HPIES
A Graneledone octopus peeking at Jason around the side of the Axial Base HPIES instrument. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; V19
June 17, 2019
Rattail 8500 ft down
A rattail fish swimming near the Axial Base junction boxes during a CTD deployment. Photo credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; V19
June 17, 2019
Limpets and Scale Worms
Community structure on the 16 m-tall hydrothermal structure 'El Guapo' changes with height above seafloor. Here, limpets, red scale worms and blue protists (ciliates) colonize the outer sulfide walls of the structure. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V18.
July 6, 2018
Life on El Guapo
Near the summit of the ~16 m-tall El Guapo chimney, sulfide worms and tubeworms colonize the younger part of the new sulfide growth. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V18.
July 6, 2018
Flow, Fractures, and Life
Healthy tube worms grow along a venting facture in the 2011 glassy lava flow at the summit of Axial Seamount. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-980; V17.
August 5, 2017
Tube Worm Bush 2011 Flow
A dense colony of tube worms awash in warm diffusely venting fluids grow on the April 2011 lava flow at the summit of Axial Seamount. UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-980; V17.
August 5, 2017
Tube Worm Bush Near Skadis Cauldron
A small cluster of healthy Ridgeia tube worms grow near Skadis' Cauldron, a highly active snowblower in 2011. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-980; V17.
August 5, 2017
3D Temperature Array and Life
A 3D temperature (thermistor) array housing 24 sensors rests above a small diffuse flow site a few meters away from the actively venting black smoker edifice called Mushroom in the ASHES hydrothermal field on Axial Seamount. This cabled instrument was designed and built by G. Proskurowski, UW School of Oceanography. Limpets have colonized the frame and cable housing the thermistors. An osmotic fluid sampler is inserted into the diffuse flow site to obtain chemistry coregistered with temperature. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; V16.
August 12, 2016
Linkages Between Vents and Life on a Volcano
A digital still camera (left), mass spectrometer (middle) and a fluid and microbial DNA sampler at the El Gordo vent in the International District Hydrothermal Field measure and sample fluids, animals, and microbes in this active processes within this hydrothermal system to understand linkages amoung seismicity (seismometers extend away from the field), venting and life in this extreme environment. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; Dive J2-212, V16.
July 19, 2016