Blue Hole Research

(Sept 2021, bes)

Introduction

Wikipedia: Blue Holes

Exceptionally well preserved late Quaternary plant and vertebrate fossils from a blue hole on Abaco, The Bahamas; PNAS 2007

BLUE HOLES: DEFINITION ANDGENESIS (Seminal Paper)

Discovery Live: Into the Blue Hole (preview - Dec 2018; see Discovery Plus for full Episode)

- Submarine Pilot, Erika Bergman

• Explorer Classroom | Erika Bergman: Submersible Pilot (June 2017)

Publications

Novel microbiome dominated by Arcobacter during anoxic excurrent flow from an ocean blue hole in Andros Island, The Bahamas

- This link has video of underwater sample collection

Inland blue holes of The Bahamas – chemistry and biology in a unique aquatic environment

Microbial hotspots in anchialine blue holes: initial discoveries from the Bahamas

Ostracoda (Myodocopa) from anchialine caves and ocean blue holes Kornicker, Louis S.; Iliffe, Thomas M.; Harrison-Nelson, Elizabeth ISSN: 1175-5326 , 1175-5334 ZOOTAXA , 2007, (1565), p.1-151

Tidal pumping of water between Bahamian blue holes, aquifers, and the ocean

Blue holes: Definition and genesis MYLROIE, JE; CAREW, JL; MOORE, AI; Mylroie, John E; Carew, James L; Moore, Audra I ISSN: 0891-2556 , 1878-5212; DOI: 10.1007/BF03175407 Carbonates and evaporites. , 1995, Vol.10(2), p.225-233

Videos

Black Hole (Andros Island), part 1, 8:12 mins (April 2009)

Black Hole (Andros Island), part 2, 7:19 min (April 2009)

Instrumentation

Open ROV at Monmouth College