A swarm of alvinocarid shrimp on the side of a chimney.
Species (common):
Year: 2005
Details:
Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: Lau:N-ELSC:KiloMoana
Investigator: Charles Fisher
Expedition: TUIM07MV
Chief Scientist: Charles Fisher
Species:

The stalked barnacle farms bacteria on its cirri, which are foot-like appendages that extend from the shell. In this photo, the bacteria give the cirri a white "fuzzy" appearance.
Species (common):
Year: 2005
Details:
Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: Lau:N-ELSC:KiloMoana
Investigator: Charles Fisher
Expedition: TUIM07MV
Chief Scientist: Charles Fisher
Species:

The stalked barnacle, Vulcanolepas osheai, on the side of a "cool" chimney at the Kilo Moana vent field on the Northern Eastern Lau Spreading Center.
Species (common):
Year: 2005
Details:
Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: Lau:N-ELSC:KiloMoana
Investigator: Charles Fisher
Expedition: TUIM07MV
Chief Scientist: Charles Fisher
Species: Vulcanolepas osheai

A mussel pot sampling device held by ROV Jason II.
Species (common):
Year: 2005
Details:
Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: Lau:VFR:TuiMalila
Investigator: Charles Fisher
Expedition: TUIM07MV
Chief Scientist: Charles Fisher
Species:

A community at the Tow Cam vent field. There are abundant anemones at this site. Also present in this image are the mussel Bathymodiolous brevior, zoanthids, and barnacles.
Species (common):
Year: 2005
Details:
Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: Lau:N-ELSC:TowCam
Investigator: Charles Fisher
Expedition: TUIM07MV
Chief Scientist: Charles Fisher
Species: Bathymodiolus brevior

Anemones on the basalt substrate of the Kilo Moana vent field on the Northern Eastern Lau Spreading Center.
Species (common):
Year: 2005
Details:
Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: Lau:N-ELSC:KiloMoana
Investigator: Charles Fisher
Expedition: TUIM07MV
Chief Scientist: Charles Fisher
Species:

A typical diffuse flow community in the Fiji and Lau Basins. The two snail species, Alviniconcha hessleri and Ifremeria nautilei, and the mussel species Bathymodiolus brevior shown here all harbor chemoautotrophic symbionts.
Species (common):
Year: 2005
Details:
Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: FijiBasin:WhiteLady
Investigator: Charles Fisher
Expedition: TUIM06MV
Chief Scientist: Robert Vrijenhoek
Species: Alviniconcha hessleri Bathymodiolus brevior Ifremeria nautilei

Riftia sp. tube worms and Bathymodiolus sp. mussels make their home at a hydrothermal vent over 2500 meters deep on the East Pacific Rise during February 2004.
Species (common):
Year: 2004
Details:
Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: EPR:9N:P
Investigator: Hans Schouten
Expedition: AT11-07
Chief Scientist: Hans Schouten
Species: Bathymodiolus sp. Riftia sp. (tube worm)