Deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems are unique environments found on the ocean floor, characterized by the presence of mineral-rich hot water that supports diverse biological communities.

As the only woman who has piloted the deep-ocean research submersible Alvin, Van Dover is among the few researchers to have explored hydrothermal vents firsthand. A love of the ocean lured Nicole ...

If there is a harsher place to live than a hydrothermal vent, it hasn't been found yet. Pitch darkness, poison gas, heavy metals, extreme acidity, enormous pressure, water at turns frigid and ...

We are exploring the role of hydrothermal vents in driving the evolution of novel adaptations in deep-sea animals, throughout the 500+ million year history of complex life on our planet. In many parts ...

These hydrothermal vents are energy-rich habitats ... As a result, there is a growing interest in exploiting inactive smokers ...

from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. The team recently published their results in the journal iScience. The researchers developed a method that enabled them to analyze time-series gene expression at ...

took the deep sea submersible Alvin to the Galápagos Rift near the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Their expedition was to look for hydrothermal activity like that found at Yellowstone ...

The veteran HOV can now officially dive deeper into the sea, broadening the horizons of scientific discoveries under the ...

This is not altruism per se, but rather by exploiting the biofilm ... The bacteria of deep-sea hydrothermal vents can experience toxic metals coupled with temperatures changing from >100 o ...

We also study the ecology and evolution of animals living at hydrothermal vents - underwater hot springs and oases of remarkable evolutionary novelty in the deep sea. We are undertaking a range of ...