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“Viruses are messing around with the genomes of their hosts in just about any environment on Earth, but I’m interested in deep-sea hydrothermal vents because I think viruses have been playing this game for billions of years….. […] …. If we can understand how evolution operates in these places, we might better understand how microbes…

National Science Foundation/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/American Geophysical Union joint press-release: “Scientists and engineers on a deep-sea expedition aboard the research vessel Atlantis in the East Pacific Ocean will be broadcasting live to the American Geophysical Union fall meeting exhibit booth from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 11, Wednesday, Dec. 12, and Thursday,…

The AT42-06 expedition has begun. They will head first to a chain of seamounts south of Manzanillo and west of the East Pacific Rise at 8°20’ N to complete the 2016 OASIS expedition with four Alvin and three Sentry dives. After that, they steam 100 miles north to the East Pacific Rise at 9°50’ N…

Since the #HOVAlvin marked the 5000th dive milestone, there has been the extensive media coverage celebrating this remarkable achievement. Read more at various news sites! EurekAlter!-AAAS Sea-Technology.com maritime-executive.com  Subsea World News Ocean News & Technology Clipper Oil Marine Fuels CapeCod.com Falmouth Enterprise.com Now, with this great tailwind, the R/V Atlantis AT42-06 cruise has set sail…

Rebecca Rutstein, a visual artist who has been inspired by deep sea processes, has set up her art studio in the main lab of R/V Atlantis, and painted several art works based on her experiences in #HOVAlvin. As many before her have experienced, the view through Alvin’s porthole affected her deeply. “There is nothing quite…

NDSF submersible and vehicle programs exist to be used in their traditional role to serve science, but they are also increasingly called to act in “non-traditional” capacities to satisfy human curiosity and cultivate broader human knowledge about the ocean.   Rebecca Rutstein, currently sailing as an artist-at-sea on the Atlantis cruise AT42-05, is a visual…

#HOVAlvin and #AUVSentry are coming to San Diego this December for open house event.  The San Diego Union Tribune features interviews of scientists at Scripps Institute of Oceanography who have had HOV Alvin dives recently. “In the age of marine robotics, scientists still jockey for the right to descend miles deep in Alvin, one of…

AT42-05 cruise lead by Prof. Andreas Teske of Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has set sail on November 16th. The weather has been very calm so far (win wave heigh (ft) has been “nil” on the weather forecast we’ve been receiving and gorgeous picture posted on one of the PI Samantha Joy’s tweet) – the…