{"id":13516,"date":"2019-04-01T12:21:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T19:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=13516"},"modified":"2019-04-15T11:32:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T18:32:24","slug":"texas-am-oceanographers-on-pacific-expedition-featured-on-bbc-blue-planet-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/texas-am-oceanographers-on-pacific-expedition-featured-on-bbc-blue-planet-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M Oceanographers On Pacific Expedition Featured On BBC Blue Planet Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visually magnificent and biologically significant, ocean-floor hydrothermal vents were completely unknown to scientists until 1977. Today oceanographers are still working to understand the ecosystems around live and inactive vents, and the implications for deep-ocean science and ocean exploration policy. To get those answers, an expedition funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) is sailing next week, led by cruise Chief Scientist <strong>Dr. Jason B. Sylvan<\/strong>, assistant professor in the Department of Oceanography in the College of Geosciences at Texas A&amp;M University. The science team will study vents on the East Pacific Rise using Alvin, a three-person human occupied vehicle (HOV) submarine.\u00a0BBC-One will also be on board and broadcasting live from the first leg of the expedition. BBC-One\u2019s\u00a0Blue Planet Live\u00a0program aired footage from the\u00a0<em>R\/V Atlantis<\/em>\u00a0on March 27 and March 28, and that footage\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m0003mmm\">will be available (in the UK) online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visually magnificent and biologically significant, ocean-floor hydrothermal vents were completely unknown to scientists until 1977. Today oceanographers are still working to understand the ecosystems around live and inactive vents, and the implications for deep-ocean science and ocean exploration policy. To get those answers, an expedition funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) is sailing next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"organization":[345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13517,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13516\/revisions\/13517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13516"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=13516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}