Links

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Marianas Trench Marine National Monument
Cruises to Mariana vents
Other vent larval studies
InterRidge and INDEEP
List of attached files

Marianas Trench Marine National Monument and Mariana Arc of Fire National Wildlife Refuge:
http://www.fws.gov/marianastrenchmarinemonument/
http://www.fws.gov/marianaarcoffire/

USGS Pacific EEZ Minerals: http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/research/projects/pac_eez_minerals.html

Cruises to Mariana vents:

NOAA Vents Submarine Ring of Fire cruises:
2003, 2004, 2006

Link to Embley et al. (2007) Exploring the Submarine Ring of Fire: Mariana Arc - Western Pacific. Oceanography

NSF-funded cruises to NW Rota-1:
2009, 2010

TAIGA cruises:
http://www-gbs.eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~taiga/Blog/TaigaBlog/TAIGA_Blog/TAIGA_Blog.html
YK10-11 cruise to southern Mariana back-arc vents:
http://www-gbs.eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~taiga/Blog/TaigaBlog/TAIGA_Blog/entori/2010/9/3_entori_1.html
http://ventlarvae.blogspot.com/2010/09/mooring-deployments.html

Studies of vent larvae and population connectivity at vents other than Mariana region:
LADDER study at East Pacific Rise:
http://www.whoi.edu/projects/LADDER/

Link to 2001 LARVE workshop report - larval biology, dispersal, and gene flow studies supported by the NSF RIDGE program

InterRidge and INDEEP
InterRidge (main page, arc/back-arc working group, long-range exploration report)
InterRidge Vents Database (database, maps, list of Mariana vents: arc, backarc)
INDEEP (main page, population connectivity)

List of attached files (requires login)