Ebwh071 Hot -

On a late summer evening, the coastal research vessel EbbTide cut its wake through glassy water. Aboard, Dr. Mira Haldane tightened her notes to the spine of a battered notebook labeled EBWH071 — the field project code for a thermal anomaly discovered three weeks earlier off a cluster of submerged volcanic vents.

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    • At the edge of EBWH071’s plume, the team filmed dense mats of microbial life and clusters of vent fauna: tubeworms, shrimp-like amphipods, and a species of limpet adapted to the sulfide-rich water. These organisms form the base of a specialized food web that can thrive where most deep-sea life cannot. Documenting this biodiversity was a priority — hydrothermal habitats are often hotspots of endemism and can teach us about life’s adaptability.