RIDGE2000: A community-based science initiative focused on integrated geological and biological studies of the Earth-encircling mid-ocean ridge system.

 

MINERAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE (MMS): The Mineral Management Service's website for the Gulf of Mexico region.

 

 

WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE (WHOI): A nonprofit organization focused on ocean reasearch, engineering, and education.

 

 

INTER-RIDGE: An initiatitve promoting inter-disciplinary and international research at ocean spreading centers, conservation of ocean ridge environments, and education and outreach.

 

 

NOAA OCEAN EXPLORER: An education and outreach website with current information about different marine reasearch expeditions.

 

DIVE AND DISCOVER: An education and outreach webpage maintained by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute with continual updates of current hydrothermal vent research expeditions.

 

 

VENTURE DEEP OCEAN: An education and outreach website chronicling research expeditions to the East and South Pacific Ocean and provides general information about hydrothermal vent ecosystems.

 

 

FROM LOCAL TO EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS (FLEXE): A GLOBE education and outreach project that teachs middle school and high school students about Earth system processes by comparing their local environment to environments in the deep-sea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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