{"id":25521,"date":"2014-06-24T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T01:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=25521"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T22:18:37","slug":"loihi-seamounts-iron-oxidizing-bacteria-focus-of-ocean-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/06\/24\/loihi-seamounts-iron-oxidizing-bacteria-focus-of-ocean-expedition\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u014d\u02bbihi<\/span> Seamount\u2019s iron-oxidizing bacteria focus of ocean expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Sampling mats of iron-oxidizing microbes (photo credit: Brian Glazer, courtesy of WHOI<\/abbr> ROV Jason <\/abbr>II<\/abbr>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Beginning on June 25, the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a> will lead an expedition to Lōʻihi<\/span> Seamount, southeast of the island of Â鶹´«Ã½, whose base remains largely unexplored. Brian Glazer<\/strong>, lead scientist and associate professor of oceanography, and his research team will map the Seamount’s deeper reaches aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s<\/a> R\/V<\/abbr> Falkor<\/em> using the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Sentry<\/em><\/a> autonomous underwater vehicle.<\/p>\n

The team, including researchers from UH<\/abbr> Mānoa, University of Minnesota<\/a>, IFREMER<\/abbr> Centre de Brest and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution<\/a>, will also collect water column samples and explore Lōʻihi<\/span>’s extraordinary mats of iron-oxidizing bacteria&#8212microbes that are able to use iron as an energy source, creating rust in the process.<\/p>\n