On Location with Alvin: Project Overview

This is an excellent opportunity to inspire marine research among students from an early age. We hope you and your students will take advantage of this opportunity to log on and learn!

The principal parts of this section include:

About Alvin: Learn about this unique research vessel, find where it is any any given time, and follow its current project.

About Hydrothermal Vents: Why are they studying these deep-sea features? Why are they important?

Meet the Researchers:Meet Krista Longnecker, our guide on this On Location segment.

Classroom Activities: Check out our classroom-ready learning activities.

Links and Bibliography: To learn more about hydrothermal vents, use this handy list of other web sites and basic references used by the researchers. If you have any suggestions for additions, please email them to us!

Photo Gallery: Here we'll put images which don't fit directly into any other pages, but that we find too interesting not to include somewhere. To save you time in downloading images you might not need, each image is just a thumbnail, with a link to get a full view for the ones you're interested in.

Latest Dispatch: Check in on this page to quickly find where the latest information and images from Alvin may be found.