assessment. Our initial microbiological and chemical studies at 

 Loihi Seamount have generated a detailed and ambitious research 

 prospectus that may take at least a decade to address adequately. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



We thank the officers and crew members of the R/V Atlantis 

 II and R/V Kila and especially the pilots and support personnel 

 for the Alvin and Pisces V submersibles for their assistance and 

 expertise, T. Walsh for inorganic nutrient analyses, T. Carvallo 

 and A. Berger for their assistance in the electron microscopic 

 and EDS analyses, J. Schoonmaker for the XRD data, M. Garcia for 

 the electron microprobe data, G. Tien, U. Magaard and T. Tagami 

 for technical assistance, R. Grigg for helpful comments and 

 L. Wong for manuscript preparation. This research was a joint 

 effort of the University of Hawaii Loihi Research team (G. 

 McMurtry, A. Malahoff, R. Grigg and D. Karl). The research 

 described herein was supported, in part, by the National Undersea 

 Research Program ( NURP ) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

 Administration (NOAA), and by grants from NOAA-Seagrant Project 

 R/OM-2 (University of Hawaii Seagrant Program) and the National 

 Science Foundation ( OCE 83-51751) both awarded to the senior 

 author. Contribution #1923 of the Hawaii Institute of 

 Geophysics . 



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