"Dive and Discover: A Look at Hydrothermal Vent Geology"   Email     Print   PDF

WHOI's Dive and Discover: Expeditions to the Seafloor
http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/

Excellent web links recommended by the Dive and Discover project leaders:

Extreme 2000: Voyage to the Deep
http://www.ocean.udel.edu/deepsea/

Black Smoker Expedition
http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/expeditions/blacksmokers/black_smokers.html

REVEL Project
http://www.ocean.washington.edu/outreach/revel/

How Stuff Works: Submarines
http://people.howstuffworks.com/submarine.htm

Ocean Planet (Smithsonian)
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html

The Remarkable Ocean World
http://www.oceansonline.com/library.htm

Neptune's Web
http://paducate/neptune/neptune.htm

ThinkQuest: Earth Science and the Environment
http://thinkquest.org/library/cat_show.html?cat_id=26

The RIDGE Project
http://ridge2000.bio.psu.edu/

Mystic Aquarium Institute for Exploration
http://www.mysticaquarium.org/

Blow the Ballast! People in the Sea, from the Navy
http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/blowballast/people/default.htm

Deep-Sea Pages from a faculty member at Whitman College (Washington)
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/deepsea.html

Deep-Sea Research Newsgroup (many resources)
http://www.le.ac.uk/biology/gat/deepsea/deepsea.html

NOAA Explorations Deep East Cruise
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/deepeast01/deepeast01.html

British Ocean Sediment Core Repository (BOSCOR) (info. on coring, nice history of seafloor sampling since the HMS Challenger expedition)
http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/CHD/BOSCORF/index.html

Marine Geological Samples Laboratory at the University of Rhode Island (information on borrowing samples/cores for educational purposes)
http://www.gso.uri.edu/MGSLsite/mgsl_homepage.htm

U.S. Geological Survey's Western Region Coastal and Marine Geology Information Bank (nice resources for Earth science researchers, students from elementary through college, policy makers, and general public)
http://mrib.usgs.gov/

NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (Marine Geology and Geophysics)
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/mggd.html

WHOI Core Lab
http://www.whoi.edu/science/GG/corelab/

Voyage to Puna Ridge (join an international team of scientists on a 36-day ocean voyage to Hawaii's most spectacular volcano!)
http://punaridge.org/

Ocean Drilling Program (lots of great links!)
http://www.oceandrilling.org/

National Science Foundation Ocean Drilling pages
http://www.geo.nsf.gov/oce/programs/drilling.htm

Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES)
http://joides.rsmas.miami.edu/

USGS Seafloor Mapping Technology (Woods Hole Field Center)
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/sfmapping/

University of Hawaii Mapping Research Group
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/

American Geological Institute Educational Project
http://www.agiweb.org/education/

The Mid-Ocean Ridge: Part II
Oceanus
Vol. 42, No. 2, 1998
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Make a Miniature Deepsea Vent, by New England Aquarium
http://www.neaq.org/scilearn/kids/seavent.html

Hydrothermal Vent Communities, by Michael Botos
http://www.botos.com/marine/vents01.html

Hydrothermal Vent Communities Student Activity, by Michael Botos
http://www.botos.com/marine/vents02.html

Volcanoes of the Deep, a NOVA student handout
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/activities/2609_abyss_01.html

Oceanography Lesson Plans for Science, Pressure, by Neptune's Web
http://pao.cnmoc.navy.mil/educate/neptune/lesson/science/pressure.htm