Recent Publications

• Tunnicliffe, V., B.F. Koop, J. Tyler and S. So. 2010. Flatfish at seamount hydrothermal vents show strong genetic divergence between volcanic arcs. Marine Ecology, 31 PDF DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2010.00370.x



• Bates, A.E., R. W. Lee, V. Tunnicliffe and M.D. Lamare. 2010. Deep-sea hydrothermal vent animals seek cool fluids in a highly variable thermal environment. Nature Communications, 1: 14 http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n2/full/ncomms1014.html#/ DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1014



• Marcus, J., V. Tunnicliffe and D. Butterfield. 2009. Post-eruption succession of macrofaunal communities at diffuse flow hydrothermal vents on Axial Volcano, Juan de Fuca Ridge, Northeast Pacific. Deep-Sea Research DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.05.004



• Tunnicliffe, V., K.T. Davies, D.A. Butterfield, R.W. Embley, J.M. Rose and W. W. Chadwick, Jr. 2009. Survival of mussels in extremely acidic waters on a submarine volcano. Nature Geosciences, 2: 344-348. DOI: 10.1038/NGEO500



• Tunnicliffe, V., J. Rose, A. Bates, and N. Kelly. 2008. Parasitization of a hydrothermal vent limpet (Lepetodrilidae, Vetigastropoda) by a highly modified copepod (Chitonophilidae, Cyclopoida). Parasitology, 135, 1281–1293. DOI: 10.1017/S0031182008004721



• Yahel, G., R. Yahel, T. Katz, B. Lazar, B. Herut, and V. Tunnicliffe. 2008. Fish activity, a major mechanism for nutrient and carbon recycling from coastal marine sediments. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 372: 195–209. DOI: 10.3354/meps07688



• Tunnicliffe, V., C. R. Barnes, R. Dewey. 2008. Major advances in cabled ocean observatories (VENUS and NEPTUNE Canada) in coastal and deep sea settings. Proc. US/EU-Baltic International Symposium, 2008 IEEE/OES, 7 pp. DOI: 10.1109/BALTIC.2008.4625496



• Barnes, C., and V. Tunnicliffe, 2008. Building the world’s first multi-node cabled ocean observatories (NEPTUNE Canada and VENUS, Canada): Science, realities, challenges and opportunities. Proc. OCEANS 2008 - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Ocean. 8 pp. DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSKOBE.2008.4531076



• Embley, R. W., E. T. Baker, D. A. Butterfield, W. W. Chadwick, Jr., J. E. Lupton, J. Resing, C. de Ronde, K. Nakamura, V. Tunnicliffe, J. Dower, and Susan G. Merle, 2007. Exploring the Submarine Ring of Fire: Mariana Arc - Western Pacific. Oceanography, 20: 68-79 PDF



• Limén, H., S.K. Juniper, V. Tunnicliffe and M. Clément. 2006. Benthic community structure on two peaks of an erupting seamount: Northwest Rota-1 Volcano, Mariana Arc, western Pacific. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 47: 457-464.



• Embley, R. W, W. W. Chadwick, E. T. Baker, D. A. Butterfield, J. A. Resing, C. E. de Ronde, V. Tunnicliffe, J. E. Lupton, S. K. Juniper, K. H. Rubin, R. J. Stern, G. T. Lebon, K. Nakamura, S. G. Merle, J. R. Hein, and D. P. Wiens, 2006. Long-term eruptive activity at a submarine arc volcano. Nature 441, 494-497. DOI: 10.1038/nature04762



• Skebo, K., V. Tunnicliffe, I. Garcia Berdeal and H. P. Johnson. 2006. Spatial patterns of zooplankton and nekton in a hydrothermally active axial valley on Juan de Fuca Ridge. Deep-Sea Reseach, 53: 1044-1060. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2006.03.001



• Bates, A. E., V. Tunnicliffe and R. C. Lee. 2005. Role of thermal conditions in habitat selection by hydrothermal vent gastropods. Marine Ecolology Progress Series, 305:1-15. [Feature Article] PDF



• Tyler, P., C. German, and V. Tunnicliffe. 2005. Biologists do not pose a threat to deep-sea vents. Nature 434: 18. DOI: 10.1038/434018b



• Knowles, J.D., E. Wenink, N. Schult, V. Tunnicliffe and D. McHugh, 2005. Molecular analysis indicates gene flow among populations of Paralvinella pandorae Desbruyeres and Laubier 1986 (Alvinellidae, Terebellida), a polychaete annelid endemic to hydrothermal vents of the northeast Pacific. Marine Ecology 26: 216-222. PDF



• Leys, S.P, K. Wilson, C. Holeton, H.M. Reiswig, W.C. Austin, V. Tunnicliffe. 2004. Patterns of glass sponge (Porifera, Hexactinellida) distribution in coastal waters of British Columbia, Canada. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 283: 133-149. PDF



• Tunnicliffe, V and A. J. Southward, 2004. Growth and breeding of a primitive stalked barnacle Leucolepas longa (Cirripedia, Scalpellomorpha, Eolepadidae, Neolepadinae) inhabiting a volcanic seamount off Papua-New Guinea. Jour. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K., 84: 121-132. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315404008987h



• Tunnicliffe, V., R. Dewey and D. Smith. 2003. Research plans for a mid-depth cabled seafloor observatory in western Canada. Oceanography, 16: 53-59. PDF



• Halbach, P., V. Tunnicliffe and J. Hein (editors). Mass and Energy Flux Through Hydrothermal Systems, Volume 89, 2003. Dahlem Press, Berlin. It can be ordered from: Dahlem Press. For an overview of the contents, see Introduction. For summary of the Working Group addressing hydrothermal fluxes and biological communities, check out Chapter 12.



• Tsurumi, M., R. de Graaf, and V. Tunnicliffe. 2003. Distributional and biological aspects of copepods at hydrothermal vents on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, north-east Pacific ocean. Jour. Mar. Biol. Ass. UK. 83: 469-477. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315403007367h



• Tunnicliffe, V., S. K. Juniper and M. Sibuet. 2003. Reducing environments of the deep-sea floor. In (P. A. Tyler, ed.) Ecosystems of the World: The Deep Sea. Chapter 4, pp. 81 - 110. Elsevier Press.



• Tsurumi, M and V.Tunnicliffe. 2003. Tubeworm-associated communities at hydrothermal vents on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, northeast Pacific. Deep-Sea Research, 50: 611-629. DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(03)00039-6



• Southward, E. C., A. Schulze and V. Tunnicliffe. 2002. Vestimentiferans (Pogonophora) in the Pacific and Indian Oceans: a new genus from Lihir Island (Papua New Guinea) and the Java Trench, with the first report of Arcovestia ivanovi from the North Fiji Basin. Jour. Nat. Hist. 36: 1179-1197. PDF



• Marcus, J. and V. Tunnicliffe. 2002. Living on the edges of diffuse vents on the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 43: 263-266.



• MacDonald, I. R., V. Tunnicliffe and E. C. Southward. 2002. Sperm transfer in the vestimentiferan Ridgeia piscesae Jones: an event observed at Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 43: 395-399.



• Martell, K.A., V. Tunnicliffe and I.R. MacDonald. 2002. Biological features of a buccinid whelk (Gastropoda, Neogastropoda) at the Endeavour ventfields of Juan de Fuca Ridge, Northeast Pacific. Journal of Molluscan Studies 68: 45-53. DOI: 10.1093/mollus/68.1.45



• Hobson, L. A., M. R. McQuoid and V. Tunnicliffe. 2001. The Saanich Inlet basin: a natural collector of past biological, climatic and land-use changes in southwestern Canada amplified by results of ODP Leg 169S. Geoscience Canada 28: 197-202. PDF



• Tsurumi, M. and V. Tunnicliffe. 2001. Characteristics of a hydrothermal vent assemblage on a volcanically active segment of Juan de Fuca Ridge. Can. Jour. Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences, 58: 530-542. PDF



• Tunnicliffe, V. J.M. O'Connell and M.R. McQuoid, 2001. A Holocene record of marine fish remains from the Northeastern Pacific. Marine Geology, 174: 197-210. DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(00)00150-X



• O'Connell, J.M. and V. Tunnicliffe, 2001. The use of sedimentary fish remains for interpretation of long-term fish population fluctuations. Marine Geology, 174: 177-195. DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(00)00149-3

Special Publication

Kira's Undersea Garden
A book for children: What can Kira the spider crab do when a scientist leaves instruments in her deepsea hot vent garden? A little rearrangement is required!