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| March 2007 |  Laura Preston, educator, UNH/Salem High School, Salem, NH. |
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April 11, 2007
A typical hydrothermal environment will have several species of tube worms, mussels, limpets, clams, crabs, and anemones.
 Image courtesy of R. Lutz, Rutgers University; Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution; and Stephen Low Productions. Images shows a typical EPR 9˚50’N community dominated by tubeworms and mussels. |
Our fearless biologists onboard struck gold the other day and are processing the loot. The creatures you see are mussels, and two types of tube worms called Tevnia, and Riftia (the large one). Just as the geologists are processing the rock samples, the biologists are doing the same with the fauna that is found at the new hydrothermal vent site.
 Karen Neely and Allison Fundis take out Tevnia worms. |
 Mussels |
 Liz Goehring and Jen Laliberte discuss the procedure…. |
 and begin the mussel preservation. |
 Ta-da! |
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 Dan Fornari and Allison Fundis tackle the Riftia! |
 Riftia being preserved. |
 These are Tevnia worms. |
 A Tevnia up close. |
 A Tevnia out of it’s tube. |
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