Photomosaics (GEOTIFF format) Derived from Near-bottom Digital Images Acquired with ROV Jason II at Two Diffuse Vent Fields in the Lau Back-arc Basin during the Melville expedition MGLN07MV (2006)

This data set was acquired with a Insite Scorpio Digital Camera on the ROV Jason II during Melville expedition MGLN07MV conducted in 2006 (Chief Scientist: Dr. Charles Fisher; Investigator(s): Dr. Charles Fisher and Elizabeth Podowski). These georeferenced photomosaics are of GeoTIFF (Raster). Data were acquired as part of the project(s): Collaborative Research: Site evaluations and background studies of interactions among fluid chemistry, physiology, and community ecology for Ridge 2000 Lau Basin Integrated Studies and Bacterial population structure: evaluating gene flow in the symbionts of deep-sea mussels, and funding was provided by NSF grant(s): OCE02-40896, OCE02-40982, OCE02-40985, OCE 02-41250, and OCE04-53901. This data was cited by Podowski et al., 2010.