Search Results - "Merle, Susan"

The PMEL Earth-Ocean Interactions Program: Beyond Vents by Butterfield, David, Walker, Sharon, Baumberger, Tamara, Beeson, Jeff, Resing, Joseph, Merle, Susan, Antriasian, Anson, Roe, Kevin, Lu, Guang-Sin, Barrett, Pamela, Chadwick, William

“…As previously summarized by Hammond et al. (2015), from 1983 to 2013, the NOAA Vents program conducted systematic and multidisciplinary exploration, discovery,…”
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Methane Plume Emissions Associated With Puget Sound Faults in the Cascadia Forearc by Johnson, H. Paul, Merle, Susan G., Bjorklund, Tor A., Hautala, Susan L., Baumberger, Tamara, Walker, Sharon L., Liu, Junzhe, Ward, Nicholas D., Wang, Chenyu

“…Methane gas plumes have been discovered to issue from the seafloor in the Puget Sound estuary. These gas emission sites are co‐located over traces of three…”
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Active submarine eruption of boninite in the northeastern Lau Basin by Resing, Joseph A., Rubin, Kenneth H., Embley, Robert W., Lupton, John E., Baker, Edward T., Dziak, Robert P., Baumberger, Tamara, Lilley, Marvin D., Huber, Julie A., Shank, Timothy M., Butterfield, David A., Clague, David A., Keller, Nicole S., Merle, Susan G., Buck, Nathaniel J., Michael, Peter J., Soule, Adam, Caress, David W., Walker, Sharon L., Davis, Richard, Cowen, James P., Reysenbach, Anna-Louise, Thomas, Hans

“…Subduction of oceanic crust and the formation of volcanic arcs above the subduction zone are important components in Earth’s geological and geochemical cycles…”
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Assessing local impacts of the 1700 CE Cascadia earthquake and tsunami using tree-ring growth histories: a case study in South Beach, Oregon, USA by Dziak, Robert P, Black, Bryan A, Wei, Yong, Merle, Susan G

“…We present an investigation of the disturbance history of an old-growth Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) stand in South Beach, Oregon, for possible growth…”
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Recent Eruptions Between 2012 and 2018 Discovered at West Mata Submarine Volcano (NE Lau Basin, SW Pacific) and Characterized by New Ship, AUV, and ROV Data by Chadwick, William W., Rubin, Kenneth H., Merle, Susan G., Bobbitt, Andra M., Kwasnitschka, Tom, Embley, Robert W.

“…West Mata is a submarine volcano located in the SW Pacific Ocean between Fiji and Samoa in the NE Lau Basin. West Mata was discovered to be actively erupting…”
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Eruption of South Sarigan Seamount, Northern Mariana Islands: Insights into Hazards from Submarine Volcanic Eruptions by EMBLEY, ROBERT W., TAMURA, YOSHIHIKO, MERLE, SUSAN G., SATO, TOMOKI, ISHIZUKA, OSAMU, CHADWICK, WILLIAM W., WIENS, DOUGLAS A., SHORE, PATRICK, STERN, ROBERT J.

“…The eruption of South Sarigan Seamount in the southern Mariana arc in May 2010 is a reminder of how little we know about the hazards associated with submarine…”
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Geodynamic evolution of a forearc rift in the southernmost Mariana Arc by Ribeiro, Julia M., Stern, Robert J., Martinez, Fernando, Ishizuka, Osamu, Merle, Susan G., Kelley, Katherine, Anthony, Elizabeth Y., Ren, Minghua, Ohara, Yasuhiko, Reagan, Mark, Girard, Guillaume, Bloomer, Sherman

“…The southernmost Mariana forearc stretched to accommodate opening of the Mariana Trough backarc basin in late Neogene time, erupting basalts at 3.7–2.7 Ma that…”
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A decade of volcanic construction and destruction at the summit of NW Rota‐1 seamount: 2004–2014 by Schnur, Susan R., Chadwick, William W., Embley, Robert W., Ferrini, Vicki L., Ronde, Cornel E. J., Cashman, Katharine V., Deardorff, Nicholas D., Merle, Susan G., Dziak, Robert P., Haxel, Joe H., Matsumoto, Haru

“…Arc volcanoes are important to our understanding of submarine volcanism because at some sites frequent eruptions cause them to grow and collapse on human…”
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Long-term eruptive activity at a submarine arc volcano by Embley, Robert W, Chadwick, William W, Baker, Edward T, Butterfield, David A, Resing, Joseph A, de Ronde, Cornel E.J, Tunnicliffe, Verena, Lupton, John E, Juniper, S. Kim, Rubin, Kenneth H, Stern, Robert J, Lebon, Geoffrey T, Nakamura, Ko-ichi, Merle, Susan G, Hein, James R, Wiens, Douglas A, Tamura, Yoshihiko

“…Three-quarters of the Earth's volcanic activity is submarine, located mostly along the mid-ocean ridges, with the remainder along intraoceanic arcs and…”
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Eruption-fed particle plumes and volcaniclastic deposits at a submarine volcano: NW Rota-1, Mariana Arc by Walker, Sharon L., Baker, Edward T., Resing, Joseph A., Chadwick Jr, William W., Lebon, Geoffrey T., Lupton, John E., Merle, Susan G.

“…NW Rota‐1 is an active submarine volcano in the Mariana Arc with a summit depth of 517 m and an explosively erupting volcanic vent southwest of the summit at a…”
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Exploring the Submarine Ring of Fire: Mariana Arc - Western Pacific by EMBLEY, ROBERT W., BAKER, EDWARD T., BUTTERFIELD, DAVID A., CHADWICK, WILLIAM W., LUPTON, JOHN E., RESING, JOSEPH A., DE RONDE, CORNEL E.J., NAKAMURA, KO-ICHI, TUNNICLIFFE, VERENA, DOWER, JOHN F., MERLE, SUSAN G.

“…Sampling an erupting volcano at 550-m depth, discovering roiling pools of liquid sulfur at 400-m depth, watching tropical fish swimming amid fields of black…”
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Distribution of Methane Plumes on Cascadia Margin and Implications for the Landward Limit of Methane Hydrate Stability by Merle, Susan G., Embley, Robert W., Johnson, H. Paul, Lau, T.-K., Phrampus, Benjamin J., Raineault, Nicole A., Gee, Lindsay J.

“…Nearly 3,500 methane bubble streams, clustered into more than 1,300 methane emission sites, have been identified along the US Cascadia margin, derived both…”
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From basalt to biosphere: Early non-vent community succession on the erupting Vailulu’u deep seamount by Herrera, Santiago, Chadwick, William W., Jackson, Matthew G., Konter, Jasper, McCartin, Luke, Pittoors, Nicole, Bushta, Emily, Merle, Susan G.

“…Volcanic eruptions provide rare opportunities to witness the biological recolonization of areas covered by new lava flows by effectively resetting the…”
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A Recent Volcanic Eruption Discovered on the Central Mariana Back-Arc Spreading Center by Chadwick, William W., Merle, Susan G., Baker, Edward T., Walker, Sharon L., Resing, Joseph A., Butterfield, David A., Anderson, Melissa O., Baumberger, Tamara, Bobbitt, Andra M.

“…Submarine volcanic eruptions are difficult to detect because they are hidden from view at the bottom of the ocean and far from land-based sensors. However,…”
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The submarine flanks of Anatahan Volcano, commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands by Chadwick, William W., Embley, Robert W., Johnson, Paul D., Merle, Susan G., Ristau, Shannon, Bobbitt, Andra

“…The submarine flanks of Anatahan volcano were surveyed comprehensively for the first time in 2003 and 2004 with multibeam and sidescan sonar systems. A…”
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Integration of submersible transect data and high-resolution multibeam sonar imagery for a habitat-based groundfish assessment of Heceta Bank, Oregon by Nasby-Lucas, Nicole M, Embley, Bob W, Hixon, Mark A, Merle, Susan G, Tissot, Brian N, Wright, Dawn J

“…Declining groundfish stocks and the lack of stock assessment data highlight the need for new ways to assess groundfish populations. A habitat-based assessment…”
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SPOTLIGHT ON THE PMEL EARTH-OCEAN INTERACTIONS PROGRAM BEYOND VENTS by Butterfield, David A., Walker, Sharon L., Baumberger, Tamara, Beeson, Jeff, Resing, Joseph, Merle, Susan G., Antriasian, Anson, Roe, Kevin, Lu, Guang-Sin, Barrett, Pamela, Chadwick, William W.

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Investigating Active Methane Seeps Along the Cascadia Margin by Baumberger, Tamara, Beeson, Jeffrey, Merle, Susan, Buck, Nathan, Antriasian, Anson, Roe, Kevin, Brown, Shannon, Bellucci, Lila Ardor

“…After postponement of the 2020 expedition season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a multidisciplinary team of researchers set out in July 2021 on E/V Nautilus to…”
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Evolution of West Rota Volcano, an extinct submarine volcano in the southern Mariana Arc: Evidence from sea floor morphology, remotely operated vehicle observations and 40Ar-39Ar geochronological studies by Stern, Robert J., Tamura, Yoshihiko, Embley, Robert W., Ishizuka, Osamu, Merle, Susan G., Basu, Neil K., Kawabata, Hiroshi, Bloomer, Sherman H.

“…West Rota Volcano (WRV) is a recently discovered extinct submarine volcano in the southern Mariana Arc. It is large (25 km diameter base), shallow (up to 300 m…”
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Anomalous Concentration of Methane Emissions at the Continental Shelf Edge of the Northern Cascadia Margin by Johnson, H. Paul, Merle, Susan, Salmi, Marie, Embley, Robert, Sampaga, Erica, Lee, Michelle

“…A recent compilation of methane plumes detected offshore Washington State includes 1,772 individual bubble streams issuing from 491 discrete vent sites. The…”
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