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Ice Planet Expedition: Thriving Antarctic Ecosystems Found in Wake of Recently Detached Iceberg

by Keith Cowing

An international team on board Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too) working in the Bellingshausen Sea rapidly pivoted their research plans to study an area that was, until last month, […]

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Ocean World Exploration: A New Seamount And Previously Unknown Species Discovered

by Keith Cowing

A team of oceanographers led by Schmidt Ocean Institute have discovered and mapped a new seamount on the Nazca Ridge in international waters, 900 miles off the coast of Chile. […]

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Expedition To The Atacama Trench: Thinking Ahead To Enceladus and Europa

by Keith Cowing

The Atacama in northern Chile is the oldest and driest desert on Earth. While tectonic activity reconfigured the shape and arrangement of land masses over the last 150 million years, […]

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Away Team Report: Schmidt Ocean Institute Scientists Confirm Underwater Mountains Harbor Abundant Life Off Chile’s Coast

by Keith Cowing

An international group of scientists, led by Dr. Javier Sellanes of the Universidad Católica del Norte, may have discovered more than 100 new species living on seamounts off the coast […]

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New Hydrothermal Vent Found In The Iguanas Vent Field, Galapagos Islands

by Keith Cowing

Scientists on a Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition have discovered a new hydrothermal vent field larger than a professional soccer field. The vent field found in the Pacific Ocean off the […]

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Away Team Report: New Hydrothermal Vent Fields Discovered On Earth’s Mid-Atlantic Ridge

by Keith Cowing

Astrobiology.com Editor’s Note: as we start to send our robotic astrobiology explorers to the Jovian system to explore icy ocean worlds Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, the skills developed exploring (the […]

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Hydrothermal Activity Discovered Along The Puy de Folles Vent Field

by Keith Cowing

NOAA, Schmidt Ocean Institute, and partners recently embarked on the In Search of Hydrothermal Lost Cities expedition on the Schmidt’s Research Vessel Falkor (too) to locate and observe hydrothermal vent […]

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Schmidt Ocean Institute Launches New Research Vessel That Will Change the Face of Ocean Exploration

by Keith Cowing

Schmidt Ocean Institute launched today its newly refitted 110-meter global-class research vessel for use by scientists worldwide to dramatically advance marine science and push the frontiers of deep sea expedition.

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