Deployment: RR1211

Deployment: 
RR1211
Chief Scientist: 
Joseph A. Resing (University of Washington, UW)
Synonyms: 
SRoF-12
Platform Type:
 vessel
Start Date: 
2012-09-09
End Date: 
2012-09-26
Location: 
Northeast Lau Basin
Deployment Report URL: 
http://dmoserv3.whoi.edu/data_docs/Vent_Mn-Fe_Microbes/SRoF12-cruisereport-final...
Description

2012 "Submarine Ring of Fire" (SRoF) cruise in the Northeast Lau Basin. More information is available on the NOAA Ocean Explorer website: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/12fire/welcome.html

This cruise is also affiliated with the project, "Understanding microbial manganese-oxidizing communities and physiological mechanisms in metal oxide-rich hydrothermal sediments using a metagenomic and metatranscriptomic approach".

Original cruise data are available from the NSF R2R data catalog