ANR HOT_Hg Kick-off meeting (PI : Lars Eric Heimburger-Boavida)

Big thanks to everyone for making our ANR HOT_Hg Kick-off meeting last week a success. We had in tense day of presentation and discussions, followed by 3 days training of sampling and analysis.

We will be studying deep hydrothermal vents at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (A), East Pacific Rise & Tonga Back Arc (B), and the South West Indian Ocean Ridge (C).

A novel aspect of our project is to investigate shallow hydrothermal vents for which we have selected 5 sites: 1. Panarea (Italy), 2. Milos (Greece), 3. Acores (Portugal), 4. Prony Bay (New Caledonia, France), and 5. Bahia Conception (Mexico).

Our PhD students Natalia Torres Rodriguez and Jingjing Yuan are leading most of the biogeochemistry work. They will be joined by 2 new PhD students: Ester Lopez Garcia (UPPA-UA) will be working on microbiology-bioinformatics under the supervision of Marisol Goni, Andrea Bravo, and Lea Cabrol. Emma Fabre (URCA) will be working on biology-biomagnification processes, and be supervised by Claudia Cosio, Anne Lorrain and myself.

Later on we will be hiring a 2 year postdoc, advised by Vincent Rossi and myself. Lot’s of elements are coming out of hydrothemal vents, get in touch with us if you are interested in collaborating.

Very warm regards

The HOT_Hg team