This animation describes how the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) ABE is operated to map the seafloor. Sent along a predetermined survey pattern, the AUV uses multibeam sonar to collect data that is used to generate bathymetric maps.
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Year: 2004
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Media Type: Animation
Data Type: Visualization
Device Type: Process
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Investigator: Daniel Fornari
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This animation shows how the Deep Submergence Vehicle Alvin is used to inspect seafloor features. Using lights, cameras, and the personal observation of divers aboard the submersible, the seafloor environment can be described. In this case, the vehicle is being used to inspect a lava pillar, a common geologic structure that is the consequence of underwater volcanic activity.
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Year: 2004
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Media Type: Animation
Data Type: Visualization
Device Type: Process
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Investigator: Daniel Fornari
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Alvin 35 mm photograph of the Bio9 vent area. Photograph showing the high-temperature Bio9 vent as it existed in 1993 with temperature loggers inserted into the active orifice [Fornari et al., 1998b, 2004; Shank et al., 1998, 2001; Scheirer et al., 2006]. Scale across image is ~3 m.
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Year: 1993
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Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera
Feature: EPR:9N:Bio9
Investigator: Vicki Ferrini
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A view of the primary eruptive fissure within the Axial Summit Trough (AST) of the East Pacific Rise (EPR). The eruptive fissure is the locus of many volcanic eruptions, and is the conduit through which lava returns to the subsurface at the conclusion of an eruptive event creating the fractured pieces of lava shown here.
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Year: 2004
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Media Type: Photograph:Digital
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: EPR:9N
Investigator: Vicki Ferrini
Chief Scientist: Marvin Lilley
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The hydrothermal vent complex Bio9' (pronounced "Bio-9-prime") has several spires, only some of which are emitting hot hydrothermal fluids.
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Year: 2004
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Media Type: Photograph:Digital
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: EPR:9N:Bio9+
Investigator: Vicki Ferrini
Chief Scientist: Marvin Lilley
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A hydrothermal vent structure, named Bio9'' (pronounced, "Bio-9-double prime"), located in the Axial Summit Trough (AST) of the East Pacific Rise (EPR). The device inserted into the black smoker (383 degrees Celcius) is a temperature data logger (HOBO) that used to record vent fluid temperatures over a period of time, up to several years.
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Year: 2004
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Media Type: Photograph:Digital
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: EPR:9N:Bio9++
Investigator: Vicki Ferrini
Chief Scientist: Marvin Lilley
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A hydrothermal vent structure, with black smoke emanating as part of a focused plume of hot hydrothermal fluid. An instrument has been placed at the base of the venting source to monitor characteristics of the hot fluid. The cylinders in the lower left portion of this image are titanium bottles (Major Samplers) that are used to bring samples of hydrothermal fluids to the surface for laboratory analyses. The platform to which the fluid samplers are attached is the sample basket on the Deep Submergence Vehicle (DSV) Alvin.

An animal community with tube worms (Riftia pachyptila) thriving on the seafloor with the Axial Summit Trough (AST) of the East Pacific Rise (EPR). Shimmering water shown in this image is the result of warm water escaping from the seafloor. In the foreground of this image is the base of an instrument that is used to monitor water characteristics.
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Year: 2004
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Media Type: Photograph:Digital
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: EPR:9N:Tica
Investigator: Vicki Ferrini
Chief Scientist: Marvin Lilley
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Seismogenic zone locking in Central America: Comparison of GPS-determined locking on the plate interface, well-located plate interface earthquakes (circles) recorded during our seismic network deployment, and rupture areas of past large earthquakes. Squares and dashed lines show original epicenter and rupture area, respectively, stars and solid lines show relocations, relative to better located 1990 event (black star). Offshore locked patch is up-dip of seismicity, and is less than rupture area of past large events.
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Year: 2008
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Media Type: Map
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