Hydrothermal Vent Ecosystems
By Charles R. Fisher, Ken Takai , and Nadine Le Bris

Direct Access to the Sub-Vent Biosphere by Shallow Drilling
By Jun-ichiro Ishibashi , Katsumi Marumo , Akihiko Maruyama, and Tetsuro Urabe

A Biology Laboratory on the Seafloor
By Nadine Le Bris

Biodiversity and Biogeography of Hydrothermal Vent Species: Thirty Years of Discovery and Investigations
By Eva Ramirez-Llodra , Timothy M. Shank, and Christopher R. German

The Emergence of Life on Earth
By Mitchell Schulte

Generation of Seafloor Hydrothermal Vent Fluids and Associated Mineral Deposits
By Margaret Kingston Tivey

Drilling the Crust at Mid-Ocean Ridges: An "In Depth" Perspective
By Benoît Ildefonse, Peter A. Rona , and Donna Blackman

Mantle Melting Beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges
By Charles H. Langmuir and Donald W. Forsyth

Ultraslow-Spreading Ridges: Rapid Paradigm Changes
By Jonathan E. Snow and Henrietta N. Edmonds

Ridge-Hotspot Interactions: What Mid-Ocean Ridges Tell Us About Deep Earth Processes
By Jérôme Dyment, Jian Lin, and Edward T. Baker

Back-Arc Basins
By Fernando Martinez, Kyoko Okino, Yasuhiko Ohara , Anna-Louise Reysenbach, and Shana K. Goffredi

Monitoring and Observatories: Multidisciplinary, Time-Series Observations at Mid-Ocean Ridges
By S. Kim Juniper , Javier Escartin, and Mathilde Cannat

Through the Porthole 30 Years Ago
By Kristen M. Kusek

From the Trenches of Ocean Ridge Outreach: New Landscapes, New Opportunities
By Kristen M. Kusek , Liz Goehring, and Véronique Robigou

Autonomous and Remotely Operated Vehicle Technology for Hydrothermal Vent Discovery, Exploration, and Sampling
By Dana R. Yoerger , Albert M. Bradley, Michael Jakuba , Christopher R. German, Timothy M. Shank , and Maurice Tivey

Responsible Science at Hydrothermal Vents
By Colin W. Devey, Charles R. Fisher , and Steven Scott

Coral Disease, Environmental Drivers, and the Balance Between Coral and Microbial Associates
By Drew Harvell , Eric Jordán-Dahlgren, Susan Merkel , Eugene Rosenberg, Laurie Raymundo, Garriet Smith, Ernesto Weil , and Bette Willis

QUARTERDECK • Seeking More Content
By Ellen S. Kappel

FROM THE PRESIDENT • Economic Lessons Are OK, Too
By Richard Spinrad

RIPPLE MARKS • Laid Bare | Full Moon as Earthquake Trigger? | Stars Under the Sea | Reign of the Jellyfish
By Cheryl Lyn Dybas

FROM THE GUEST EDITORS • Introduction to the InterRidge Special Issue
By Colin W. Devey, Charles R. Fisher, and Kristen M. Kusek

THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM • Ocean Literacy—An In-Depth Top Ten
By Tom Garrison

HANDS-ON OCEANOGRAPHY • Investigating Coastal Processes and Nitrate Levels in the Elkhorn Slough Using Real-Time Data
By Lisa G. Adams and George I. Matsumoto

BOOK REVIEW • Lagrangian Fluid Dynamics
By Russ Davis

BOOK REVIEW • The Agulhas Current
By Arnold L. Gordon

Colin W. Devey, IFM-GEOMAR
Charles R. Fisher, The Pennsylvania State University
Kristen M. Kusek, InterRidge

The National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Ocean Exploration program, the InterRidge member nations, the Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems (ChEss) program of the Census of Marine Life, the German DFG, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Ridge 2000.