Webinars

Webinars are hosted virtually at 3pm Eastern on the first Wednesday of each month. Sign up to the mailing list for updates and to register for webinars.

Upcoming speakers:

3pm Eastern, Wednesday May 6th, 2026
Hanchao Jian – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Seismic Imaging of Hydrothermal Circulation and Hydration at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Register here.


We will be continuing the webinars in fall 2026 – please suggest potential speakers here.



Webinar Recordings




Alexander Diehl
MARUM/Universität Bremen

1 April 2026

A new perspective on global on-axis hydrothermal element fluxes derived from vent fluid compositions

Suni Shah Walter
University of Delaware

4 March 2026

An Eruption and Megaplume Formation at 9°50’N on the East Pacific Rise

Amy Gartman
U.S. Geological Survey

2 February 2026

Sediment and mineral formation and weathering at hydrothermal vents

Hélène Le Mevel
Carnegie Science

5 November 2025

Imaging the magmatic systems under submarine volcanoes with satellite altimetry

Jessica Labonté
Texas A&M University

1 October 2025

Identifying and Managing Ubiquitous Subsurface Contamination

Serhat Sevgen
University of Calgary

3 September 2025

Geochemical Evolution of Hydrothermal Vent Products Across Geological Time: Insights From Laboratory Experiments and Field-based Observations

Brendan Smith
Dalhousie University

4 June 2025

Passive Acoustic Monitoring of the Main Endeavor Field

Jill McDermott
Lehigh University

7 May 2025

Breakthrough in Deep Sea Volcanic Forecasting Validated by Ongoing Eruption

Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert
Arizona State University

2 April 2025

What lies beneath: Who lives miles below the seafloor and what are they up to?

Samantha Joye
University of Georgia, Marine Sciences

5 March 2025

Accelerated methane oxidation in Gulf of California hydrothermal plumes – a window to the past, insight to the future

Garrett Ito
University of Hawaii

5 February 2025

Investigating Plume-Ridge Interaction at the Galapagos Hotspot

Kate Rychert
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

8 January 2025

A dynamic lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary dictated by variations in melt generation and migration: the PI-LAB experiment at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge with a global perspective

Roxanne Beinart
University of Rhode Island

6 November 2024

Charting the symbiosis landscape: genomic insights into local adaptation and response to volcanic disturbance at deep-sea hydrothermal vents

Bill Chadwick
Oregon State University

2 October 2024

Recent Monitoring Results From Axial Seamount, NE Pacific

Ben Urann
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

4 September 2024

Oceanic mylonites: a wet origin story

Rika Anderson
Carelton College

7 August 2024

Wonders of the Deep: Exploring the world of microbes and viruses in the hydrothermal vent habitats

Kristen Fauria
Vanderbilt University

3 July, 2024

Havre and Hunga: Dynamics and impacts of two large submarine eruption

Zoe Krauss
University of Washington

5 June, 2024

Real-time, long-term monitoring of a mid-ocean ridge: seismicity reveals multi-decadal patterns of tectonics, magmatism, and hydrothermal venting at the Endeavour segment

Shawn Arellano
Western Washington University

1 May, 2024

How microbes and animals work together to build (and rebuild) hydrothermal vent communities

Brandy Toner
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

3 April, 2024

A deep-sea tour of global hydrothermal plumes from the perspective of X-ray spectromicroscopy

Masako Tominaga
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

6 March, 2024

Beyond Seafloor Stripes: the journey of using multiscale magnetic to decipher seafloor/subseafloor processes within oceanic lithosphere through international collaborations