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Jack Dymond
Jack Dymond (1939-2003) was an oceanographer who taught
at Oregon State University. He was directly involved in the
initial phase of lake-bottom exploration during the summer
of 1987, at Crater Lake National Park.
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Jack Dymond |
Born in Ohio, Dymond earned a bachelor's degree in geology
from Miami University, and a doctorate from the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at
San Diego. He worked as a researcher at Columbia University
before transferring to Oregon State University, where he taught
until his retirement in 1997.
During his career, Dymond wrote nearly 100 scientific papers
and traveled the world to explore underwater ecosystems. In
1977, he and a group of scientists found hot water vents spewing
from the sea floor in the Galapagos Islands. Using the Alvin
submersible to examine the vents, Dymond and his crew found an
entire community of tube worms, clams and other previously
unknown organisms living in the dark waters. It was the first
ecosystem discovered on Earth that did not rely on the sun for
energy.
"He was very inspiring in a way -- he knew how to excite the
people around him with new ideas, and also sort of show them how
those new ideas could be approached in a reasonable way. He was
one of those people for whom the strength of his personal
relationships are as memorable as the specific scientific nuts
and bolts that he contributed," said friend and colleague Bob
Collier.
He was fly-fishing on the Rogue River
when he fell into the water and was pulled under by the current.
Related Links
Bibliography
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Dymond, J. and Collier, R.W. and Watwood, M.E., Bacterial mats from Crater Lake, Oregon and their relationship to possible deep-lake hydrothermal venting,
Nature,
volume 342,
number 6250,
673--675,
1989
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John B.
Corliss, Jack Dymond, Louis I. Gordon, John M. Edmond,
Richard P. von Herzen, Robert D. Ballard, Kenneth Green,
David Williams, Arnold Bainbridge, Kathy Crane, and Tjeerd
H. van Andel. Submarine Thermal Springs on the Galápagos
Rift, Science 16 March 1979: Vol. 203. no. 4385, pp.
1073 - 1083
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Honjo, S.
and Francois, R. and Manganini, S. and Dymond, J. and
Collier, R., Particle fluxes to the interior of the Southern
Ocean in the Western Pacific sector along 170° W, Deep-Sea
Research Part II, Volume 47, number 15-16, pages 3521-3548,
2000
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McManus, J. and Collier, R.W. and Dymond, J., Mixing processes in Crater Lake, Oregon,
Journal of Geophysical Research,
Vol. 98,
No. C10,
18295-18308,
1993
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Collier, R.W. and Dymond, J.,
Studies of hydrothermal processes in Crater Lake: a report of field studies conducted in 1988 for the National Park Service, 1989,
Corvallis, Or.: College of Oceanography, Oregon State University
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