About
The Lehigh Oceans Research Center at Lehigh University is a consortium of researchers studying the ocean system and the life within it. Our interdisciplinary research combines fieldwork, laboratory, and computational approaches. Current expertise groups include the Balmonte Lab of Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry, the Layden Lab of Cnidarian Neurobiology, the McDermott Lab of Marine and Subsurface Geochemistry, and the Herrera Lab of Deep-Sea Ecology and Evolution.
News
5 Hydrothermal Vents Have Appeared in the Dark Heart of the Ocean
Popular Mechanics
Five New Hydrothermal Vents Discovered in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean
ECO Magazine
Lehigh Oceans Research Center Holds Inaugural Symposium
Lehigh News
The McDermott lab co-leads cruise to Eastern Galapagos Spreading Center onboard the RV Falkor (too)
Schmidt Ocean Institute
The Herrera lab participates in the PULSE cruise in Puerto Rico onboard the RV Falkor (too)
Schmidt Ocean Institute
PhD Student Jada Siverand Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
NSF
Jill McDermott is Elected to the Deep Submergence Science Committee (DeSSC)
University - National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS)
Santiago Herrera Receives Early-Career Fellowship from the National Academies of Sciences
National Academies
Off-Axis High-Temperature Hydrothermal Field Discovered at the East Pacific Rise
NSF News
PhD Student Nicole Pittoors Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Lehigh Acumen
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