Hot Vents Beneath an Icy Ocean: The Aurora Vent Field, Gakkel Ridge, Revealed
Evidence of hydrothermal venting on the ultra-slow spreading Gakkel Ridge in the Central Arctic Ocean has been available since 2001, with first visual evidence of black smokers on the Aurora Vent Field obtained in 2014. But it was not until 2021 that the first ever remotely operated vehicle (ROV) di...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/27685 2023-05-15T14:56:11+02:00 Hot Vents Beneath an Icy Ocean: The Aurora Vent Field, Gakkel Ridge, Revealed Ramirez-Llodra, Eva Argentino, Claudio Baker, Maria Boetius, Antje Costa, Carolina Dahle, Håkon Denny, Emily Maria Dessandier, Pierre-Antoine Eilertsen, Mari Heggernes Ferré, Benedicte German, Cristopher R. Hand, Kevin Hilário, Ana Hislop, Lawrence Jamieson, John W. Kalnitchenko, Dimitri Mall, Achim Panieri, Giuliana Purser, Autun Ramalho, Sofia P. Reeves, Eoghan P. Rolley, Leigthon Pereira, Samuel I. Ribeiro, Pedro A. Sert, Muhammed Fatih Steen, Ida H. Stetzler, Marie Stokke, Runar Victorero, Lissette Vulcano, Francesca Vågenes, Stig Waghorn, Kate Alyse Buenz, Stefan 2022-11-28 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27685 https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2023.103 eng eng The Oceanography Society Oceanography info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7-IDEAS-ERC/294757/EU/Assessment of bacterial life and matter cycling in deep-sea surface sediments/ABYSS/ Ramirez-Llodra E, Argentino C, Baker M, Boetius A, Costa C, Dahle H, Denny EM, Dessandier P, Eilertsen MH, Ferré B, German CR, Hand K, Hilário A. Hot Vents Beneath an Icy Ocean: The Aurora Vent Field, Gakkel Ridge, Revealed. Oceanography. 2022 FRIDAID 2086756 doi:10.5670/oceanog.2023.103 1042-8275 2377-617X https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27685 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2022 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2023.103 2022-12-08T00:02:36Z Evidence of hydrothermal venting on the ultra-slow spreading Gakkel Ridge in the Central Arctic Ocean has been available since 2001, with first visual evidence of black smokers on the Aurora Vent Field obtained in 2014. But it was not until 2021 that the first ever remotely operated vehicle (ROV) dives to hydrothermal vents under permanent ice cover in the Arctic were conducted, enabling the collection of vent fluids, rocks, microbes, and fauna. In this paper, we present the methods employed for deep-sea ROV operations under drifting ice. We also provide the first description of the Aurora Vent Field, which includes three actively venting black smokers and diffuse flow on the Aurora mound at ~3,888 m depth on the southern part of the Gakkel Ridge (82.5°N). The biological communities are dominated by a new species of cocculinid limpet, two small gastropods, and a melitid amphipod. The ongoing analyses of Aurora Vent Field samples will contribute to positioning the Gakkel Ridge hydrothermal vents in the global biogeographic puzzle of hydrothermal vents. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Arctic Ocean Gakkel Ridge ENVELOPE(90.000,90.000,87.000,87.000) Oceanography 36 1 |
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Evidence of hydrothermal venting on the ultra-slow spreading Gakkel Ridge in the Central Arctic Ocean has been available since 2001, with first visual evidence of black smokers on the Aurora Vent Field obtained in 2014. But it was not until 2021 that the first ever remotely operated vehicle (ROV) dives to hydrothermal vents under permanent ice cover in the Arctic were conducted, enabling the collection of vent fluids, rocks, microbes, and fauna. In this paper, we present the methods employed for deep-sea ROV operations under drifting ice. We also provide the first description of the Aurora Vent Field, which includes three actively venting black smokers and diffuse flow on the Aurora mound at ~3,888 m depth on the southern part of the Gakkel Ridge (82.5°N). The biological communities are dominated by a new species of cocculinid limpet, two small gastropods, and a melitid amphipod. The ongoing analyses of Aurora Vent Field samples will contribute to positioning the Gakkel Ridge hydrothermal vents in the global biogeographic puzzle of hydrothermal vents. |
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Ramirez-Llodra, Eva Argentino, Claudio Baker, Maria Boetius, Antje Costa, Carolina Dahle, Håkon Denny, Emily Maria Dessandier, Pierre-Antoine Eilertsen, Mari Heggernes Ferré, Benedicte German, Cristopher R. Hand, Kevin Hilário, Ana Hislop, Lawrence Jamieson, John W. Kalnitchenko, Dimitri Mall, Achim Panieri, Giuliana Purser, Autun Ramalho, Sofia P. Reeves, Eoghan P. Rolley, Leigthon Pereira, Samuel I. Ribeiro, Pedro A. Sert, Muhammed Fatih Steen, Ida H. Stetzler, Marie Stokke, Runar Victorero, Lissette Vulcano, Francesca Vågenes, Stig Waghorn, Kate Alyse Buenz, Stefan |
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Ramirez-Llodra, Eva Argentino, Claudio Baker, Maria Boetius, Antje Costa, Carolina Dahle, Håkon Denny, Emily Maria Dessandier, Pierre-Antoine Eilertsen, Mari Heggernes Ferré, Benedicte German, Cristopher R. Hand, Kevin Hilário, Ana Hislop, Lawrence Jamieson, John W. Kalnitchenko, Dimitri Mall, Achim Panieri, Giuliana Purser, Autun Ramalho, Sofia P. Reeves, Eoghan P. Rolley, Leigthon Pereira, Samuel I. Ribeiro, Pedro A. Sert, Muhammed Fatih Steen, Ida H. Stetzler, Marie Stokke, Runar Victorero, Lissette Vulcano, Francesca Vågenes, Stig Waghorn, Kate Alyse Buenz, Stefan Hot Vents Beneath an Icy Ocean: The Aurora Vent Field, Gakkel Ridge, Revealed |
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Ramirez-Llodra, Eva Argentino, Claudio Baker, Maria Boetius, Antje Costa, Carolina Dahle, Håkon Denny, Emily Maria Dessandier, Pierre-Antoine Eilertsen, Mari Heggernes Ferré, Benedicte German, Cristopher R. Hand, Kevin Hilário, Ana Hislop, Lawrence Jamieson, John W. Kalnitchenko, Dimitri Mall, Achim Panieri, Giuliana Purser, Autun Ramalho, Sofia P. Reeves, Eoghan P. Rolley, Leigthon Pereira, Samuel I. Ribeiro, Pedro A. Sert, Muhammed Fatih Steen, Ida H. Stetzler, Marie Stokke, Runar Victorero, Lissette Vulcano, Francesca Vågenes, Stig Waghorn, Kate Alyse Buenz, Stefan |
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Hot Vents Beneath an Icy Ocean: The Aurora Vent Field, Gakkel Ridge, Revealed |
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Hot Vents Beneath an Icy Ocean: The Aurora Vent Field, Gakkel Ridge, Revealed |
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Hot Vents Beneath an Icy Ocean: The Aurora Vent Field, Gakkel Ridge, Revealed |
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Hot Vents Beneath an Icy Ocean: The Aurora Vent Field, Gakkel Ridge, Revealed |
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Hot Vents Beneath an Icy Ocean: The Aurora Vent Field, Gakkel Ridge, Revealed |
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hot vents beneath an icy ocean: the aurora vent field, gakkel ridge, revealed |
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Oceanography info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7-IDEAS-ERC/294757/EU/Assessment of bacterial life and matter cycling in deep-sea surface sediments/ABYSS/ Ramirez-Llodra E, Argentino C, Baker M, Boetius A, Costa C, Dahle H, Denny EM, Dessandier P, Eilertsen MH, Ferré B, German CR, Hand K, Hilário A. Hot Vents Beneath an Icy Ocean: The Aurora Vent Field, Gakkel Ridge, Revealed. Oceanography. 2022 FRIDAID 2086756 doi:10.5670/oceanog.2023.103 1042-8275 2377-617X https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27685 |
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