Warm hydrothermal fluids venting from a Lost City chimney. Photo credit: Chief Scientist Susan Lang / NSF / ROV Jason / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Expeditions
IODP Expedition 399: Building Blocks of Life, Atlantis Massif.
This seafloor drilling expedition explored the basement rock underlying the Lost City hydrothermal field. A new 1.26 km borehole was drilled into the Atlantis Massif, just 800 m from the Lost City chimneys. Recovery of rock cores during drilling was very high, resulting in hundreds of samples collected for geological, chemical, and microbiological research.
Return to Lost City 2018. Departed Woods Hole, Massachusetts on September 8 aboard the R/V Atlantis with a team of scientists and the ROV Jason team. Returned to San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 1.
An NSF-funded oceanography expedition, with additional support provided by the NASA Astrobiology Institute Rock-Powered Life Team, the Sloan Foundation’s Deep Carbon Observatory, and the NSF-funded Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations.
