Craig is temporarily a post-doctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who is looking for a permanent position. He spends most of his time balancing his overwhelming geekdom with normalcy so he can function in the real world. Luckily his wife likes his geekiness.
Peter Etnoyer is a Graduate Research Associate at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He studies deep corals and ocean fronts, and he loves to be on the water.
Kevin Zelnio is a Graduate Student Researcher at Penn State studying the ecology of hydrothermal vent and methane seep communities. He raises awareness of the plight of the spineless through folk music.
Kick 'em Jenny is a 1300m submerged volcano residing about 8km off the Grenada coast and the only live submarine volcano in the West Indies. In 1939 an eruption here rose 275m above the ocean surface (see image below fold). Eruptions have been both explosive and simply lava flows and domes in the summit crater. Nearby residents often hear deep rumbling noises. A team from WHOI installed a seismic monitor over Jenny 250m below the surface. The instrument package will be moored to a surface buoy with a high-frequency radio (and solar panels) to send data to the village of Sauteurs on Grenda.
Image from the Global Volcanism Program and University of the West Indies Seismic Research Unit
Comments
Over Kick em Jenny is an interesting place to be. I was on the cruise that discovered Kick em Jack:
http://www.uwiseismic.com/KeJ/Cruise2003/kej2003cruise.html
Posted by: Andrew Staroscik | May 11, 2007 3:06 PM
Is this baby being monitered primarily because of the hazard it presents? Or is it just a good place to study sub-surface volcanism?
Posted by: big | May 11, 2007 7:43 PM