Submarine Volcanism Resources
MBARI videos
News stories
- 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 Axial 2015 lava flow mapping
- MBARI news release and YouTube video about 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, Vents Program announcement and NOAA press release)
- 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 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.
New study challenges prevailing theory about how deep-sea vents are colonized
Jul 24, 2017 – Despite their close proximity, two recently discovered hydrothermal vent fields in the Gulf of California host very different animal communities. This finding contradicts a common scientific assumption that neighboring vents will share similar animal communities.
MBARI’s seafloor maps provide new information about 2015 eruption at Axial Seamount
Dec 15, 2016 - Axial Seamount, a large underwater volcano off of the Oregon coast, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, having last erupted in 2015. At the Fall 2016 meeting of the American Geophysical Union, MBARI researchers unveiled a new seafloor map that reveals previously undocumented lava flows from the 2015 eruption.
MBARI researchers discover deepest known high-temperature hydrothermal vents in Pacific Ocean
Jun 2, 2015 – In spring 2015, MBARI researchers discovered a large, previously unknown field of hydrothermal vents in the Gulf of California, about 150 kilometers (100 miles) east of La Paz, Mexico.
Publications
Dixon, Jacqueline E., Clague, David A., Wallace, Paul, Poreda, Robert, (1997). Volatiles in alkalic basalts from the North Arch Volcanic Field, Hawaii: Extensive degassing of deep submarine-erupted alkalic series lavas. Journal of Petrology, 38: 911-939. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/petrology/38.7.911
Moore, James G., Clague, David A., Beeson, Melvin H., Smith, J. R., Anonymou, (1997). Observations of north submarine slope of East Molokai, Hawaii
[Monograph] Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section, 93rd annual meeting [modified]. : .
Davis, Alicé S., Clague, David A., (1998). Changes in the hydrothermal system at Loihi Seamount after the formation of Pele's pit in 1996. Geology, 26: 399-402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0399:Cithsa>2.3.Co;2
