David A. Butterfield, Ph.D. (Univ. of Washington), Affiliate Assistant Professor. butterfield@pmel.noaa.gov. Geochemical systematics of hydrothermal fluids and their relation to seafloor volcanism and microbial activity. Oceanographer at Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory/NOAA with the Joint Institute for Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean.
Butterfield, D.A., B. Nelson, C.G. Wheat and M.J. Mottl (submitted) Evidence for basaltic Sr in mid-ocean ridge flank hydrothermal systems and implications for the global oceanic Sr isotope balance. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Butterfield, D.A. (in press) Deep ocean hydrothermal vents. In The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes. Academic Press.
Kadko, D. and D. Butterfield (1998) The relationship of hydrothermal fluid composition and crustal residence time to maturity of vent fields on the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Geochimica et Cosmichimica Acta 62: 1521-1534.
Delaney, J.R., D.S. Kelley, M.D. Lilley, D.A. Butterfield, J.A. Baross, W.S.D. Wilcock, R.W. Embley and M. Summit (1998) The quantum event of oceanic crustal accretion: Impacts of diking at mid-ocean ridges. Science 281: 222–230.
Embley, R.W., J.E. Lupton, G. Massoth, T. Urabe, V. Tunnicliffe, D.A. Butterfield, et al. (1998) Geologic, chemical, and biologic evidence for recent volcanism at 17.5°S: East Pacific Rise. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 163: 131–147.
Butterfield, D.A., I.R. Jonasson, G.J. Massoth, R.A. Feely, K.K. Roe, R.E. Embley, J.F. Holden, R.E. McDuff, M.D. Lilley and J.R. Delaney (1997) Seafloor eruptions and evolution of hydrothermal fluid chemistry. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 355: 369-386.
Delaney, J.R., D.S. Kelley, M.D. Lilley, D.A. Butterfield, R.E. McDuff, J.A. Baross, J.W. Deming, H.P. Johnson and V. Robigou (1997) The Endeavour Hydrothermal System I: Cellular circulation above an active cracking front yields large sulfide structures, "fresh" vent water, and hyperthermophilic archaea. RIDGE Events 8: 11–19.
Tunnicliffe, V., R.W. Embley, J.F. Holden, D.A. Butterfield, G.J. Massoth and S.K. Juniper (1997) Biological colonization of new hydrothermal vents following an eruption on Juan de Fuca Ridge. Deep-Sea Research I 44: 1627–1644.