©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation
©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.Our primary research objective, centers on understanding the diversity and distribution of protists associated with hydrothermal vent systems. As primary grazers of the bacteria in marine systems we hope to discover if they play a major role in structuring vent microbial communities. This will entail deploying and recovering many small protist collectors (proto-traps) in and around the vent system both in Guaymas and at 9N. We will also be collecting small water samples associated with each of the units for geochemical analysis. In addition we will be collecting large volumes of water for protist, bacteria and viral studies with our free vehicle system (LVWS) and with the ships CTD. We will also be making discrete collections of Guaymas sediments, bivalves and Alvinellid worms.
Cruise information and original data are available from the NSF R2R data catalog.
| Dataset | Latest Version Date | Current State |
|---|---|---|
| ICoMM Global Protistan Survey (GPS) vent-related samples from R/V Atlantis cruises AT11-04 and AT15-25 in the East Pacific Rise, North Pacific, Guaymas Basin, and Gulf of California from 2003 to 2007 (PROTISTS project) | 2011-01-19 | Final no updates expected |
Co-Chief Scientist: Stephen Craig Cary
University of Delaware
Co-Chief Scientist: Costantino Vetriani
Rutgers University
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