Researchers to embark on extraordinary expedition to Loihi Seamount
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - 07:20
in Earth & Climate
Starting June 25, UH Mānoa will lead an expedition to Loihi Seamount, southeast of the island of Hawai'i, whose base remains largely unexplored. Dr. Brian Glazer, lead scientist and Associate Professor of Oceanography, his team from UHM, and colleagues from the University of Minnesota, IFREMER Centre de Brest and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), will map the Seamount's deeper reaches using WHOI's Sentry autonomous underwater vehicle. The team will also collect water column samples and explore Loihi's extraordinary mats of iron-oxidizing bacteria—microbes that are able to use iron as an energy source, creating rust in the process.