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PR 03-84 - August 14, 2003
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View video: A "black smoker" vents atop a 10-meter-high chimney, with an internal temperature of 342°C. Considered a "real chugger" by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Vents Program, this vent is about 250 miles south of Finn, the vent that yielded the strain 121 sample.
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/geology/Videos/SCsmoker2.lg.mpg
For additional footage, see:
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/geology/video_other.html
Video courtesy of Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA.
contacts:
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/contacts.html
View video: These steep-sided pinnacles rise 22 meters above the sea floor on the east face of the Faulty Towers complex in the Mothra Hydrothermal Field, along the Juan de Fuca Ridge about 2,270 meters below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, about 200 miles off the coast of Puget Sound. The structures support a vent releasing a stew at 300 C, communities of small tubeworm "bushes" (dotting the foreground) and occasional piscine passersby.
Download video
http://nsfgov.httpsvc.vitalstreamcdn.com/nsfgov_vitalstream_com/hh_fish_sm.mov (small screen). Use "Back" to return to this page.
http://nsfgov.httpsvc.vitalstreamcdn.com/nsfgov_vitalstream_com/hh_fish.mov (large screen). Use "Back" to return to this page.
View streaming video
pr0384_video2.htm
Video courtesy of Neptune oceanographic observatory, University of Washington.
Contact information:
Deborah Kelley (kelley@ocean.washington.edu)
Photo 1
A thin section of Strain 121 illustrates its single-layer cell envelope (S) and cytoplasmic membrane (CM). (The white bar equals one micron.)
Photo courtesy of Derek Lovley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
TIFF of Photo 1 (49KB)
Photo 2
Looking like a freed balloon, the sphere in the upper left is a Strain 121 specimen, with its roughly dozen flagella dangling. The scale bar at lower left is one micron.
Photo courtesy of Derek Lovley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
TIFF of Photo 2 (45KB)
Photo 3
Magnetite (attracted to the magnet), the byproduct of Strain 121's respiration of iron oxide, offers a tell-tale sign of life in the left tube, compared to the uninoculated tube on the right.
Photo courtesy of Derek Lovley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
TIFF of Photo 3 (95KB)
Photo 4
A photomosaic of the Faulty Towers complex shows three of the structures recovered by the Edifice Rex Sulfide Recovery Project, including the Finn "black smoker," home of the Strain 121 microbe. (The scale bar represents 13 meters.)
Image courtesy of John Delaney and Deborah Kelley, University of Washington
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