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FeMO Seagoing Expeditions
Loihi Seamount is an active volcano in the mid-Pacific ocean where hydrothermal waters with high concentrations of reduced iron exit the oceanic crust. Here iron-oxidizing bacteria carpet the rock surfaces and form massive rust coatings. The focus of the Fe-Oxidizing Microbial Observatory (FeMO) is to understand what the iron-oxidizing bacteria in this environment are, how fast they form these deposits, how they do it biochemically, and how they affect ocean chemistry and ecosystem function.

NSF-sponsored GK12 Project
Scripps Classroom Connection (SCC)

The Scripps Classroom Connection (SCC) aims to systematically and simultaneously improve communication skills of Earth Science graduate students and K-12 education in the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD). These goals are relevant because Earth Science literacy is fundamental to the success of our society that must practice much more effective stewardship of our very fragile planet and that needs to understand how planet Earth works as an integrated chemical, physical and biological system.

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  • Expedition MV1203 aims to dredge 40 seamounts along the southwest portion of the Walvis Ridge seamount trail. The Walvis Ridge begins on the African continent and extends to near the mid-Atlantic Ridge. The southwest half of the Walvis Ridge appears to bifurcate into two distinct physical and geochemical trends, the Tristan (northern) and Gough (southern) tracks. The data we collect will assist in improving absolute plate motion models for the African continent, and knowledge of the geochemical evolution of plumes and the regional tectonic setting of the surrounding area. Visit the Expedition Website ...

  • The 2011 MagIC Science & Database Workshop was held from Sept. 19th to 21st, 2011, at UCSD. Sept 21st was dedicated to a Special Hands-on MagIC Data Upload Workshop requiring separate registration. Scientific talks at the meeting covered a wide range of magnetic topics with keynotes on biogeomagnetism, magnetic stratigraphy, and magnetic properties under high pressure. The Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC) highlighted its database for geomagnetic, paleomagnetic, and rock magnetic data with a series of talks and hands-on seminars for uploading data. See the Meeting's Website for More Information ...

  • IODP Expedition 330 to the Louisville Seamount Trail will drill four underwater volcanoes off the NE coast of New Zealand. One hypothesis states that these volcanoes formed above a narrow plume of hot mantle rising from a position deep in the Earth's mantle. For decades scientists assumed these mantle plumes remain anchored there for tens of millions years, but there is mounting evidence that mantle plumes wander in a large-scale mantle wind. This expedition aims to establish how much mantle plumes may have moved over the last 80 million years and whether the Louisville hotspot moved coherently with the Hawaii hotspot. Visit the Expedition Website ...

  • Five GOLF-439 Scientists from Oregon, Maine and California (and their team mascot "da Microbe") are traveling to Antarctica to study the "Rock Bottom" of the food chain in the extreme environments of McMurdo Sound. They will be based at McMurdo station of the US Antarctic Program (USAP) on Ross Island from where they will embark on trips to remote locations and field camps in the Antarctic Dry Valleys, at Cape Evans, on Mount Erebus and in the Royal Society Range. Targets of their investigations will include moorings below the ice of Lake Fryxell (Taylor Valley), experiments below the sea-ice using SCUBA diving, hydrothermal vents and ice caves in the glaciers of Mt. Erebus, as well as seasonal creeks running through volcanic terrain that are fed by glacial melting in the short Antarctic summer. Visit Expedition Website ...

  • Smith-Boughner & Constable 2012
    Spectral Estimation for Geophysical Time Series with Inconvenient Gaps
  • Krása et al. 2003
    Experimental procedure to detect multidomain remanence during Thellier-Thellier experiments
  • Tauxe 2012
    Integrated biomagnetostratigraphy of the Wilkes Land Margin for reconstruction of 53 Ma of Antarctic
  • Yoshikawa & Kuwae 2001
    High resolution tephrochronology for the past 400 ky obtained from Lake Biwa sediments
  • Shirai 2001
    The widespread tephras in middle pleistocene found in eastern Japan Sea
  • Okuno 2001
    Tephrochronology of volcanoes in southern Kyushu (SW Japan) during 30,000 years
  • Matsumoto et al. 1991
    K-Ar age determinations for Aso volcanic rocks: concordance with volcanostratigraphy and application flow
  • Lesher & Campbell 1993
    Geochemical and fluid dynamic modeling of compositional variations in Archean komatiite-hosted nickel sulfide ores in Western Australia
  • Korte et al. 2011
    Reconstructing the Holocene geomagnetic field
  • Korte & Constable 2011
    Improving geomagnetic field reconstructions for 0-3 ka
  • Gee et al. 2012
    A weak fibrillating Jurassic geomagnetic field
  • Coe et al. 2004
    Matuyama-Brunhes reversal and Kamikatsura event on Maui: paleomagnetic directions, 40Ar/39Ar ages and implications
  • Stanton et al. 2011
    New paleointensity data from Holocene Icelandic lavas
  • Hoffman et al. 2008
    Stability of mantle control over dynamo flux since the mid-Cenozoic
  • Jarboe et al. 2011
    Evidence from lava flows for complex polarity transitions: the new composite Steens Mountain reversal record