Vessel
YOKOSUKA
Cruise number
YK09-13 Leg2
Area
The Indian Ocean (Kairei hydrothermal field,Edmond hydrothermal,Hakuho-knoll (URANIWA-Hills))
Objective
Elucidating the occurrence of rocks in the inside corner high of the northern-end of the CIR Segment1,northern part of the Hakuho-knoll hosting the Kairei hydrothermal field ; Obtaining the crustal structure (especially faults) in the shallow part of the oceanic crust at the region between the Hakuho-knoll and URANIWA Hills 16 using Single Channel Seismic (SCS) ; Measuring heat flow by the Stand-Alone Heat Flow meter (SAHF) at the URANIWA Hills ; Obtaining glycan profiles from both host animals and their symbiotic bacteria ; Performing wide array of "-omics" analyses,such as community genomic,proteomic,transcriptomic analyses,on both host animals and their symbiotic bacteria ; Cultivating and isolating epi-or endo-symbiotic bacteria and free-living counterparts ; Characterizing larvae of hydrothermal vent animals ; Keeping hydrothermal animals alive and transporting them to Japan
Chief scientists
Kentaro Nakamura
Operation start
2009-11-02
Operation end
2009-12-10
DOI
10.17596/0003227
DOI URL
Title
YK09-13_Leg2 Cruise Report
Data name
YK09-13_leg2_all
Language
English
Series name
Cruise reports
Total pages
74
Publisher
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology