FeMO Seagoing Expeditions
Loihi Seamount is an active volcano in the mid-Pacific ocean where hydrothermal waters with high concentrations of reduced iron exit the oceanic crust. Here iron-oxidizing bacteria carpet the rock surfaces and form massive rust coatings. The focus of the Fe-Oxidizing Microbial Observatory (FeMO) is to understand what the iron-oxidizing bacteria in this environment are, how fast they form these deposits, how they do it biochemically, and how they affect ocean chemistry and ecosystem function.

Hotspot Lessons for a
High School Earth Science Class
This is a two week learning segment on hotspot volcanoes that is part of a collaborative effort between a high school science teacher and an Earth Sciences masters student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Utilizing data collected during research, the students were taught about the hotspot theory and how hotspot volcanoes are important to understanding geodynamical Earth science concepts.