PI Country:
USA
PIs:
Childress, J.; Fisher, C.; Van Dover, C.
Institution:
University of California at Santa Barbara; College of William and Mary
Funding:
NSF
Ocean:
N. Pacific
Region:
N EPR
Year:
2001
Start Date:
9-Dec-01
End Date:
1-Jan-02 Biological studies of vent communities; from Chuck Fisher's website: This was the first cruise of our NSF award to study the productivity and biomass of the EPR vent communities with Jim Childress' group from UC Santa Barbara. This was a two-ship expedition and Dr. Fisher was chief scientist on the RV Atlantis and oversaw the in situ work while Dr. Childress was the chief scientist on the RV New Horizon. This was graduate student Breea Govenar's first cruise for her thesis research and she took the lead with the quantitative collections. Our groups main goals were to characterize the habitats of the major community types and make quantitative collection of the different community types with our "new toys". Two other graduate students, Sue Carney and Sharmishtha Dattagupta, Undergraduate lab member, Therese Waltz and Dr. Stéphane Hourdez, rounded out the PSU contingent on the RV Atlantis, while PSU Graduate student Jason Flores sailed on the New Horizon. In addition to our group and Dr. Childress' group, this two-ship expedition included scientists from the College of William and Mary, the University of Vienna (Austria), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the University of Alaska, the University of Southampton (UK), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Western Washington University, Georgia Tech., and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Ship:
Atlantis and New Horizon
Equipment:
Alvin Submersible 
