Web Gallery of Bottom Photos acquired with the HOV Alvin at the East Pacific Rise Spreading Center during the Atlantis expedition AT15-28 (2007)

This data set was acquired with a Nikon Coolpix 995 Digital Camera on the HOV Alvin during Atlantis expedition AT15-28 conducted in 2007 (Chief Scientist: Dr. Stefan Sievert). Data were acquired as part of the project(s): Microbiology and Biogeochemistry of Autotrophic Microbes in the Subsurface at Hydrothermal Vents: Filamentous-Sulfur Producing Bacteria, In-Situ Chemical Sensors for Monitoring the Chemistry of Hydrothermal Vent Fluids at Mid-Ocean Ridges: Instrument Development and Field Applications, Carbon Fixation Pathways in Marine Chemoautotrophic, Mesophilic Crenarchaeota: Implications for the Oceanic Carbon Cycle, CAREER: The Carbon Concentrating Mechanism of the Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Chemolithoautotroph Thiomicrospira crunogena, Collaborative Research: MIP: Physiology and molecular ecology of thermophilic nitrate-reducing microorgansisms at deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and Collaborative Research: Integrated Studies of Biological Community Structure at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents, and funding was provided by NSF grant(s): MCB04-56676, MCB06-43713, OCE03-27353, OCE04-52333, OCE05-25907, and OCE06-23908.

本数据集由尼康Coolpix 995数码相机（Nikon Coolpix 995 Digital Camera）搭载于载人深潜器阿尔文号（HOV Alvin），采集自2007年执行的亚特兰蒂斯号（Atlantis）科考航次AT15-28，本次航次的首席科学家为斯特凡·西弗特博士（Dr. Stefan Sievert）。数据采集隶属于以下多项研究课题：《热液喷口（hydrothermal vents）地下环境自养微生物的微生物学与生物地球化学：产丝状硫细菌》、《洋中脊（mid-ocean ridges）热液喷口流体化学原位监测化学传感器：仪器研发与现场应用》、《海洋化能自养中温泉古菌（mesophilic Crenarchaeota）的固碳途径及其对海洋碳循环的启示》、《CAREER项目：深海热液喷口化能自养菌Thiomicrospira crunogena的碳浓缩机制》、《合作研究：MIP项目：深海热液喷口嗜热硝酸盐还原微生物的生理学与分子生态学》，以及《合作研究：深海热液喷口生物群落结构综合研究》。本研究由美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation, NSF）资助，资助编号为：MCB04-56676、MCB06-43713、OCE03-27353、OCE04-52333、OCE05-25907及OCE06-23908。