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Platform: Alvin

Platform: Alvin

ICES submarine-manned Code: 31A5

Abbreviation:

HOV Alvin

Type:

submarine-manned

Affiliation:

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

Community Standard Description:

Vessel Description

Platform URL:

https://www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/explore/underwater-vehicles/hov-alvin/

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Project	Start Date	Chief/Co-chief Scientist
AT11-07_Alvin_Dives		An Integrated Study of Energy Metabolism, Carbon Fixation, and Colonization Mechanisms in Chemosynthetic Microbial Communities at Deep-Sea Vents Metagenomic signatures in seafloor rocks and subsurface sediments: East Pacific Rise and Loihi Seamount	02/03/2014
AT15-40_Alvin_Dives		Collaborative Research: Microbial Carbon cycling and its interactions with Sulfur and Nitrogen transformations in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments Microbial carbon and sulfur cycling in the hydrothermally altered sediments of Guaymas Basin	12/06/2008	Andreas Teske
AT15-51_Alvin_Dives		Primary productivity in young, oxic oceanic crust: rates of activity and autotrophic groups in subsurface and seafloor-exposed basalts from North Pond, Mid-Atlantic Ridge	08/20/2009
AT15-56_Alvin_Dives		Microbial carbon and sulfur cycling in the hydrothermally altered sediments of Guaymas Basin	11/23/2009	Andreas Teske
AT26-14_Alvin_Dives		Physiological and genetic responses of the deep-water coral, Lophelia pertusa, to ongoing ocean acidification in the Gulf of Mexico	04/27/2014	Erik E. Cordes
AT26-15_Alvin_Dives	SEEP GoM	Connectivity in western Atlantic seep populations: Oceanographic and life-history processes underlying genetic structure	05/22/2014	Cindy Van Dover
AT26-23_Alvin_Dives		An Integrated Study of Energy Metabolism, Carbon Fixation, and Colonization Mechanisms in Chemosynthetic Microbial Communities at Deep-Sea Vents	11/02/2014
AT26-24_Alvin_Dives		Discovery, sampling, and quantification of flows from cool yet massive ridge-flank hydrothermal springs on Dorado Outcrop, eastern Pacific Ocean	12/01/2014
AT29-04_Alvin_Dives	SEEP WAM	Connectivity in western Atlantic seep populations: Oceanographic and life-history processes underlying genetic structure	07/09/2015	Cindy Van Dover
AT37-06_Alvin_Dives		Collaborative Research: Microbial Carbon cycling and its interactions with Sulfur and Nitrogen transformations in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments Collaborative research: Quantifying the biological, chemical, and physical linkages between chemosynthetic communities and the surrounding deep sea Validation of a New Geochemical Approach to Constrain Deep Sea Porewater Residence Times and Advection Rates: Applications to Biogeochemical Cycling at Guaymas Basin	12/09/2016	Andreas Teske
AT37-13_Alvin_Dives		Collaborative research: Quantifying the biological, chemical, and physical linkages between chemosynthetic communities and the surrounding deep sea	05/21/2017
AT42-03_Alvin_Dives		Collaborative research: Quantifying the biological, chemical, and physical linkages between chemosynthetic communities and the surrounding deep sea	10/17/2018
AT42-05_Alvin_Dives		Collaborative Research: Hydrothermal Fungi in the Guaymas Basin Hydrocarbon Ecosystem Collaborative Research: Microbial Carbon cycling and its interactions with Sulfur and Nitrogen transformations in Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments Validation of a New Geochemical Approach to Constrain Deep Sea Porewater Residence Times and Advection Rates: Applications to Biogeochemical Cycling at Guaymas Basin	11/17/2018	Andreas Teske
AT42-10_Alvin_dives		Collaborative Research: Assessing the relative importance of small vs large particles as sources of nutrition to abyssal communities	05/01/2019
AT42-21_Alvin_Dives		Collaborative Research: Life after Death: Do Inactive Sulfides Fuel a Unique Ecosystem at the Deep Seafloor?	12/17/2019
AT42-24_Alvin_Dives		Collaborative Research: dispersal depth and the transport of deep-sea, methane-seep larvae around a biogeographic barrier	02/25/2020
AT50-04_Alvin_Dives		Collaborative Research: dispersal depth and the transport of deep-sea, methane-seep larvae around a biogeographic barrier	10/14/2022