New Coral Gardens and Hydrothermal Vents Found in the Icy Depths of the Remote South Sandwich Islands https://schmidtocean.org/new-coral-gardens-hydrothermal-vents-found-south-sandwich-islands/

"recent #DeepSea expedition observed thriving polar ecosystems, discovered new #HydrothermalVents, coral gardens, and many suspected #NewSpecies... #SchmidtOceanInstitute’s RV #FalkorToo explored the #SouthSandwichIslands, including one of the coldest and most isolated submarine trenches on the planet, and also found evidence of explosive volcanism."

Schmidt Ocean is live streaming the first ROV dive of the #GalapagosVents expedition. Check out these hydrothermal vents!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZxnqsARjis

#FalkorToo

Mapping the secrets of the ocean floor

by André Luiz de Oliveira (on board #FalkorToo of Schmidt Ocean Institute)

#VentUnderworld #LifeInCrustCracks

Have you ever got lost exploring a new place while travelling? Even in our own hometown, sometimes we get completely confused by streets and signs trying to reach our favourite ice cream shop and need help finding ourselves. Our first instinct is too open any map app in our smartphones and add the address we are looking
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The fascinating giant tubeworm Riftia-Endoriftia symbiosis

by Teresa Winter (on board #FalkorToo of Schmidt Ocean Institute)

#VentUnderworld #LifeInCrustCracks

This mutualistic association lives at hydrothermal vents in the deep sea such as the East Pacific Rise 9°N where we currently collect the worms from 2500m depth. In this symbiosis Riftia larvae and symbiont need to find each other. After infection a crazy inner transformation of Riftia's digestive systemt takes place.
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Survival of free-living symbionts

by Teresa Winter (on board #FalkorToo of Schmidt Ocean Insitute)

#VentUnderworld #LifeInCrustCracks

I am Teresa and I want to help to understand how Endoriftia survives once they escaped the dead host. When host associated, Endoriftia has a chemoautotrophic metabolism, however genes that are coding for enzymes necessary for heterotrophy are present as well!
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In or out?

by Ingrid Kolar, on board of #FalkorToo of Schmidt Ocean Institute #VentUnderworld #LifeInCrustCracks

I'm Ingrid and my task on board is to make experiments with mussels named #Bathymodiolus thermophilus.
As you already read from Teresa, the giant tubeworm Riftia lives in symbioses with a bacterium. But Rifta is not the not the only animal at the hydrothermal vents with a symbiotic life style.
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Technical support
by Tihomir Makovec, on board #FalkorToo of the Schmidt Ocean Institute)

I am a senior technician and head of the professional divers at Marine Biology Station #Piran, National Institute of Biology, #Slovenia. I have been collaborating with Prof. Monika Bright from the #UniversitätWien for many years and assisting her during her yearly field work stays at Piran. I was invited to participate in this expedition as technical support to the scientific team.
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Life on a research cruise

by Nicole Krause on board #FalkorToo (of the Schmidt Ocean Institute)
#VentUnderworld #LifeInCrustCracks

(from the news in our webpage http://mbe.univie.ac.at)

For the last three weeks life on the Falkor (too) has consisted of lot of hard work but has also been filled with memorable experiences unrelated to our research.

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Communicating Science

by @feministo on board #FalkorToo

Communication used to be a much slower bussiness. We had books, we had sculptures. We could build cathedrals to communicate greatness of things. Now we have new rules. Nowadays we digest multitude of messages in a seconds timepace. Any device we use posts clips of funny videos one after the other and we scroll and go from one thing to the next. We make an understanding of our reality by putting together all this, up to knowledge.
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Watching a live view from the bottom of the ocean at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Schmidt Ocean just found some hydrothermal vents and a ton of shrimp and other life. #LostCityVents #FalkorToo

https://www.youtube.com/live/5zmQYrIwJHU

Smells like a well-known Ría 🌊 😊
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RT @SchmidtOcean
#TechTuesday ~ "I think the excitement to be back at sea again was literally palpable amongst all the crew, and the fact that we are now another step closer to doing science-that's what we love to do-is truly exciting."
Full vid on #FalkorToo's Sea Trials!
https://youtu.be/YZmhis5hZxg
https://twitter.com/SchmidtOcean/status/1612907118826516481