New co-authored paper (with Shinsuke Kawagucci and other colleagues) is now officially published in the Open Access journal Frontiers in Earth Sciences! Available from: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2017.00045/full/
Long story short, we developed a new water sampler for collecting hydrothermal fluid and other geofluids in the deep-sea. This new sampler, the “WHATS-III”, is capable of pressure-tight, flow-through sampling of four independent geofluids per submersible dive. We also present real data collected during field tests carried out in hydrothermal vents of the Indian Ocean and Okinawa Trough.
Overview of the WHATS-3 Sampler
- Miyazaki J, Makabe A, Matsui Y, Ebina N, Tsutsumi S, Ishibashi J, Chen C, Kaneko S, Takai K, Kawagucci S (2017). WHATS-3: An improved flow-through gas-tight fluid sampler for deep-sea geofluid research. Frontiers in Earth Science, 5: 45. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2017.00045