Recent Publications
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Matabos, M., V. Tunnicliffe, S.K. Juniper, and C. Dean. 2012. A year in hypoxia: epibenthic community responses to severe oxygen deficit at a subsea observatory in a coastal inlet. PLoS ONE. 7(9):e45626. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045626
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Snelgrove, PVR, P Archambault, SK Juniper, P Lawton, A Metaxas, P Pepin, J Rice, V Tunnicliffe. 2012. The Canadian Healthy Oceans Network (CHONe): An academic-government partnership to develop scientific guidelines for conservation and sustainable usage of Canada’s marine biodiversity. Fisheries, 37(7): 296 – 303. DOI: 10.1080/03632415.2012.696002
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Katz, T., G. Yahel, M. Reidenbach, V. Tunnicliffe, B. Herut, J. Crusius, F. Whitney, P.V.R. Snelgrove and B. Lazar. 2012. Resuspension by fish facilitates the transport and redistribution of coastal sediments. Limnology & Oceanography 57, 945–958. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.4.0945
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Munroe, T.A., J. Tyler and V. Tunnicliffe. 2011. Description and biological observations on a new species of deepwater symphurine tonguefish (Pleuronectiformes: Cynoglossidae: Symphurus) collected at Volcano–19, Tonga Arc, West Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 3061: 53–66.
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Leys S.P., G. Yahel, M.A. Reidenbach, V. Tunnicliffe, U. Shavit and H.M. Reiswig. 2011. The sponge pump: the role of current induced flow in the design of the sponge body plan. PLoS ONE 6(12): e27787. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027787
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Du Preez, C., and V. Tunnicliffe. 2011. Shortspine thornyhead and rockfish (Scorpaenidae) distribution in response to substratum, biological structures, and trawling. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 425: 217-231. DOI: 10.3354/meps09005
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!