Journal
GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 26, Issue 8, Pages 606-622Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/01490450903263392
Keywords
hydrothermal; iron; Loihi Seamount; microbial mats; suboxic; voltammetry
Funding
- NSF Microbial Observatories program
- University of Hawaii NASA Astrobiology Institute
- School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
- NSF [NSF-OCE 06-48637, NSF-OCE 0647948, 0550066]
- WHOI Deep Ocean Exploration Institute, Frank
- Lisina Hoch Endowed Fund
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Deep-sea hydrothermal systems such as the Loihi Seamount hydrothermal field are important examples of environments where both chemical and biological oxidation of Fe can occur simultaneously, and provide an ideal system to study the speciation and distribution of redox-sensitive bio-reactive elements such as Fe, Mn and S. A total of 13 discrete ROV dives were conducted within the Loihi Summit area over three cruises in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Here, we present and compare data from 17 distinct sites of historical and current interest, from focused and diffuse hydrothermal flow localities, over the three-year sampling period. We coupled an in situ electrochemical analyzer (ISEA) to a sensor wand and a high-resolution in situ micromanipulator deployed from ROV Jason-II to measure dissolved redox species within hydrothermal fluids and microbial mats at Loihi Seamount in complement to analyses on discrete samples collected using Titanium samplers. We compare in situ electrochemical data with traditional geochemical sampling and analysis techniques, and provide a geochemical context for past, on-going, and planned microbial ecology studies.
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