Research cruise RR2102 and the Vent Parasite Project featured in Deep Sea Life
An interdisciplinary team of oceanographers and engineers led by investigators from WHOI, SIO, Rutgers University, Western Washington University, and Lehigh University returned recently from a month-long expedition on R/V Roger Revelle (RR2102) to hydrothermal vents at 9°50’N on the East Pacific Rise. They used deep submergence vehicles AUV Sentry and ROV Jason, paired with shipboard and field experiments, to understand the interplay between geology, microbes, and animals at these dynamic deep-sea oases.
