Objective: The understanding of vent ecology requires contributions from and interactions among a wide range of biological disciplines as well as chemists, geologists, and physical oceanographers. The current composition of the hydrothermal vent community at a given vent site is the result of very complex interplay among the evolutionary history of the taxa, the present-day interactions among species (symbiosis, predation, competition etc), and the physiological adaptations of each of the species to the challenging environmental conditions encountered at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. A primary goal of the Vent Ecology WG will be to foster cutting edge collaborations and other studies that will contribute to our understanding of the ecology of hydrothermal vents. The WG will also work to encourage and facilitate international collaborations and sharing of samples to maximize the scientific return from the resources available to our community and minimize our collective impact on vent communities.
Chairs - Stephane Hourdez (Roscoff, France) and Yoshihiro Fujiwara (JAMSTEC, Japan)
Group Members - Maria Baker (UK and ChEss Program), Monika Bright (Austria), Ana Colaço (Portugal), Nicole Dubilier (Germany), Charles Fisher (Penn State Univ., US), Galkin (Russia), Peter Girguis (USA), Jung-Ho Hyun (Korea), Crispin Little (UK), Anna Metaxas (Canada), Katsu Fujikura (Japan), Xiang Xiao (China), ex-officio member: Nadine Le Bris (Chair, Hydrothermal Energy and Ocean Carbon Cycles WG) (Working Group formed in 2008)
Alvinella caudata
Paralvinella grasslei
Paralvinella fijiensis
Harmothoe sp.
Branchinotogluma sp.
Branchinotogluma trifurcus
Branchinotogluma segonzaci
2009 Update
WG update for 2009
Vent Ecology
Chairs – Stéphane Hourdez (France) and Yoshihiro Fujiwara (Japan)
2008 Update
Vent Ecology
2008 Working Group Update
Stéphane Hourdez and Chuck Fisher, Working Group Co-Chairs
Members
The Vent Ecology WG was officially created in 2008. It comprises members from 11 different countries and is chaired by Stéphane Hourdez (France) and Charles Fisher (USA). As proposed when the WG formed, C. Fisher will rotate off as co-chair at the end of 2008, but will stay on as a WG member. We will select a new co-chair from the current WG members.
Recent and upcoming meetings
InterRidge Student Presentation Awards at 4th CBE Symposium
Specialists in the biology of hydrothermal vents gathered June 29 - July 3, 2009, in Okinawa, Japan, for the 4th International Symposium on Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems (CBE). The Symposium, sponsored in part by InterRidge, brought together approximately 200 scientists from across the globe. InterRidge presented two awards to students Dennis Fink and Daphne Cuvelier:
High Throughput Project Listings
The InterRidge Vent Ecology Working Group would like to encourage interactions between researchers with common interests in high-throughput genomic approaches for the study of deep-sea hydrothermal vent organisms. For the current list of high-throughput projects, please see:
http://www.interridge.org/highthroughput
Please feel free to submit your high-throughput listing here:
http://www.interridge.org/node/add/highthroughput
Vent Ecology WG Discussion
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2007 Vent Ecology WG proposal
Click here to access the Vent Ecology WG proposal
