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Speaker: Julie Bowles, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
When: 3pm Eastern, Wednesday 7 October, 2026
Title: Identifying Past Eruptive Episodes on the East Pacific Rise Using a Machine Learning Cluster Analysis
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Future Speakers:
November 4 Jean-Arthur Olive, ENS Paris
December 2 Sara Hu, TAMU
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