Submarine Volcanism Resources
MBARI videos
News stories
- MBARI news release about eruption dynamics of the 2015 eruption at Axial Seamount
- MBARI news release about hundreds of chimneys being discovered at Endeavour from our mapping data.
- MBARI news release about mapping of Loihi Seamount
- News stories about our November 2018 return to Pescadero Basin on the R/V Falkor
- MBARI news release about our expedition
- Marine Technology News “SOI mission discovers new hydrothermal vent and species”
- Motherboard “Scientists discover upside-down lakes and waterfalls at the bottom of the ocean” by Sarah Emerson
- Science Alert “An incredible new ecosystem has been discovered at the bottom of the ocean” by Michelle Starr
- MBARI news release about Gulf of California hydrothermal vent organism diversity
- Nature Geoscience article about the February 2017 Submarine Volcanism Chapman Conference
- MBARI news release about Axial 2015 lava flow mapping
- MBARI news release and YouTube video about our 2015 cruise to Pescadero Basin
- UCSC Science Notes – story, podcast and video about our project by Tanya Lewis
- MBARI news story about mapping the Axial 2011 eruption with our AUV
- MBARI news stories about our 2012 GOC expedition:
- MBARI news story about Dave Clague “Blowing the lid off underwater volcanoes”
- MBARI news story about Mapping AUV related presentations at the 2011 AGU meeting
- Lau Basin 2009 expedition (blog and Vents Program announcement)
- Ridge Events newsletter article (starts on page 5)
- Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Mission to the Deep exhibit features a mission to map Davidson Seamount
- MBARI news story about seamounts off Southern California that once were ancient islands
- USGS newsletter about Seamounts 2003 expedition
External Links and Resources
- Information and tutorials on plate tectonics
- Glossary of volcanic and geologic terms (Volcano World)
- Submarine Volcanoes (Volcano World)
- Axial Seamount classroom and kids activities (PMEL)
- Volcanoes for Kids (under “Fun Stuff” at Volcano World)
and search online for “volcano lesson plans” or “volcano crafts” for many more - OOI cabled array at Axial Seamount
- Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program
- USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory
- USGS Earthquake Hazards Program.
Special Volumes
Special issue of Oceanography on Spreading Centers
Special issue of Oceanography on Mountains in the Sea
Encyclopedia of Islands from UC Press.
Listening to an underwater eruption
Sept 8, 2020 – MBARI scientists use sound to track day-to-day changes in the eruption of an underwater volcano.
Hundreds of hydrothermal chimneys discovered on the seafloor off the Pacific Northwest
April 28, 2020 – MBARI's underwater mapping efforts off the Pacific Northwest have revealed almost 600 hydrothermal chimneys rising from the deep seafloor.
Mapping the next Hawaiian island
April 25, 2019 – MBARI researchers recently created a new map of Loihi, an undersea volcano that will be the next Hawaiian Island.
Submarine Volcanism Publications
Le Saout, M., Bohnenstiehl, D.R., Paduan, J.B., Clague, D.A., (2020). Quantification of eruption dynamics on the north rift at Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009136
Clague, D.A., Paduan, J.B., Caress, D.W., McClain, J., Zierenberg, R.A., (2020). Lava flows erupted in 1996 on North Gorda Ridge Segment and the geology of the nearby Sea Cliff Hydrothermal Vent Field From 1-M resolution AUV mapping. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7: 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00027
Clague, D.A., Martin, J.F., Paduan, J.B., Butterfield, D.A., Jamieson, J.W., Le Saout, M., Caress, D.W., Thomas, H., Holden, J.F., Kelley, D.S., (2020). Hydrothermal chimney distribution on the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 21: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC008917
