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Supporting the NOVAE 2015 Workshop: A Wired, Restless Volcano

Each of the institutions above has agreed to participate at some level in supporting the NOVAE workshop activity. There is a considerable interest across our community of ocean and earth scientists in exploring innovative uses of the newly installed cabled natural laboratory on Axial Seamount, a mid-ocean ridge volcano, which is highly active both volcanologically and hydrothermally. We are deeply grateful for this encouragement to develop novel approaches to conducting remote, real-time scientific investigations into a system that involves disciplines ranging from mantle dynamics, to magma chamber evolution, to deep and shallow hydrothermal activity, to exotic microbial communities, to eruptive activity producing seafloor lava flows, to formation of large eruptive plumes (megaplumes) that may impact large volumes of the overlying ocean. 

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