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Geochemical Earth Reference Model
Providing a chemical characterization of the Earth, its major reservoirs and the fluxes between them.
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Magnetics Information Consortium
Promoting information technology infrastructures for the international paleomagnetic, geomagnetic and rock magnetic community.
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Seamount Biogeosciences Network
Bringing together all science disciplines involved in seamount research to explore innovative ways to build a seamount cyberinfrastructure.
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Promoting, creating and publishing of enduring resources for Earth science education in a collaboration between school teachers and Earth scientists.
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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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  • Follow the third and final G-439 Expedition that uses the extreme environments of volcanoes in the McMurdo area as a model system to shed light on these questions on microbial life and life in extreme environments. G-439 will work below the sea-ice, in frozen lakes in the Dry Valleys and fumarolic ice caves on the ice-covered 14,000 feet tall Mt. Erebus volcano, the southernmost active volcano on Planet Earth. Follow this website read about the G-439 project. Visit the Expedition Website ...
  • 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 ...


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