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Mystery of the Gakkel Ridge: Links & Books

Links

Arctic Seafloor Expedition
polardiscovery.whoi.edu/expedition2/index.html
Read the daily updates of the team that took Puma, Jaguar, and CAMPER on the 2007 expedition to the Gakkel Ridge, beneath the Arctic Ocean.

Gakkel Ridge
www.scienceandthesea.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=10
Listen to a radio story about Gakkel Ridge at this website from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
www.whoi.edu
WHOI is the world's largest non-profit oceanographic institution, and scientists and researchers from the institution are searching for answers to humanity's questions about the ocean. Learn more at the institution's website.

NOAA Ocean Explorer: Submarine Ring of Fire 2006: Mariana Arc
oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06fire/background/marianaarc/marianaarc.html
Learn about another series of underwater volcanoes near the Mariana Trench, at this website from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

Books

The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
by Claire Nouvian. University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Unmasking Europa: The Search for Life on Jupiter's Ocean Moon
by Richard Greenberg. Springer, 2008.

Articles

"Arctic Volcanoes Exploded at 'Impossible' Depth"
by Jeff Hecht. New Scientist, June 25, 2008.
www.newscientist.com/article/dn14203?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news9_head_dn14203

"Under the Arctic Ice, a Seabed Yields Some Fiery Secrets"
by Andrew C. Revkin. The New York Times, July 1, 2003.
www.nytimes.com/2003/07/01/science/under-the-arctic-ice-a-seabed-yields-some-fiery-secrets.html

"Revealing the Arctic's Secrets"
by Aaron Gouveia. Cape Cod Times, October 14, 2007.
www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071014/NEWS/710140364

"Water World"
by Kathy A. Svitil. Discover, May 1, 1997.
discovermagazine.com/1997/may/waterworld1129/?searchterm=europa


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