Life in an Earthquake Zone

Deep-sea hydrothermal vent sites host dense communities of animals in a food web built on chemical energy from beneath the seafloor. These sites experience frequent disturbances, like volcanic eruptions, that sometimes wipe out entire communities. Learn how a site on the East Pacific Rise was recolonized by distant populations of animals after a 2006 eruption and how its transformation has added to our understanding of how these communities persist in this unstable environment at the final Science Made Public talk of 2014, led by WHOI biologist Susan Mills. This talk will be held in Redfield Auditorium at 45 Water Street in Woods Hole. (Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)