Collaborative Research: Time Series Responses to Mid-Ocean Ridge Volcanic Event: Juan de Fuca and Gorda Ridges

海脊轴筑堤/喷发事件是一种幕式扰动，触发了与洋壳形成有关的一系列相互关联和迅速演变的物理、化学和生物过程。 火山活动产生具有独特地球化学特征的热液排放，并触发邻近地壳和上覆水柱中特定的地球化学和微生物响应。 观测和量化相关过程之间的共变提供了基本的新的约束，目前不成熟的海底火山热液系统的模型。 热液羽流中的化学和生物参数变化迅速，在其排放并随后在深海混合后的数秒至数天内发生最急剧的变化。 在这里，我们建议安装全面的快速和后续现场响应远程检测到的莫尔火山事件。 我们的项目强调时间序列观测和实验的关键动态物理，地球化学和地质微生物特性的不断发展的热液事件羽。 对这些事件的迅速反应将使我们能够：（1）获得不受老化影响的初始通量;（2）研究热液事件羽流的化学和生物演变，这是一种自然的、暂时受限制的实验，用于监测热液流出物中的变化;（3）利用事件羽流作为了解地下生物圈的宝贵窗口。

Ridge axis diking/eruptive events are episodic perturbations that trigger a sequence of interrelated and rapidly evolving physical, chemical, and biological processes associated with the formation of ocean crust. Volcanic activity produces hydrothermal dischage with a distinct geochemical signature, and triggers specific geochemical and microbial responses in the adjacent crust and overlying water-column. Observing and quantifying co-variation among related processes provides basic new constraints on presently immature models of submarine volcano-hydrothermal systems. Chemical and biological parameters within hydrothermal plumes change rapidly, with the steepest rate of change occurring over seconds to days following their discharge and subsequent mixing in the deep sea. Here we propose to mount comprehensive rapid and follow-up field responses to a remotely detected MOR volcanic event. Our project emphasizes time-series observations and experiments on key dynamic physical, geochemical, and geomicrobial properties of an evolving hydrothermal event plume. A rapid response to these events will allow us: (1) to obtain the initial flux--that unaffected by aging; (2) to study the chemical and biological evolution of hydrothermal event plumes, representing a natural, temporarily constrained experiment for monitoring transformations within hydrothermal effluents; (3) to exploit event plumes as an invaluable window to the subsurface biosphere.