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New Technologies Revise Our Understanding Of Oxygen Minimum Zones

by Keith Cowing

A new technology detects trace amounts of oxygen in an environment where previously these life-supporting molecules were below the limit of detection.

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Pristine Ecosystems And A Hundred New Lifeforms Discovered Remote Seamounts

by Keith Cowing

An international team of scientists observed 160 species on the Salas y Gómez Ridge that had not yet been known to live in the region and suspect that at least […]

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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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Away Team Report: Scientists Locate New Hydrothermal Vent Field Using State-of-the-Art Mapping Technology

by Keith Cowing

An international research team has discovered a new high-temperature hydrothermal vent field that hosts several 10- to 15-meter-tall actively venting chimney clusters. Scientists located the vent field in the Pacific […]

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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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A New Ecosystem Has Been Discovered Underneath Oceanic Hydrothermal Vents

by Keith Cowing

A new ecosystem has been discovered in volcanic cavities beneath hydrothermal vents at a well-studied undersea volcano on the East Pacific Rise off Central America.

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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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