Anthropogenic pressures at the Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent field: 30 years of research activities: Data repository

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To assess the pressures exerted by scientific research at the Lucky Strike vent field, we compiled a comprehensive inventory of all research activities conducted from 1992 to 2024. These activities included sampling, in situ measurements, mooring deployments, submersible dives, and litter deposition on the seafloor. The type of sampling activities was identified (i.e., biological, rock, sediment, fluid) to evaluate their respective pressures. Litter assessments focused primarily on metallic deadweights, which are currently needed for submersible operations and mooring deployments. These include shuttles —a container deployed to facilitate instrumentation deployment/recovery and sample storage during dives— as well as instrumentation platforms such as the Seamon monitoring nodes, moorings and surface buoy. A census allowed an exhautive list of all available samples, moorings, submersible navigations and litter deposited on the seafloor. In addition, an interactive map allow the visualisation of all these activites, enabling filtration upon the year and type of activity. Rasters for all these activities are also made available (TIF) to be able to import these in GIS projects. In addition, R scripts are joined to analyse these data and compute an Integrated Research Pressure Index (IRPI) and the resulting database is made available in the repository. Temporal and spatial evolution analysis of the IRPI is also available in the scripts. A bibliometric database compiling all publications related to Lucky Strike until 2023 is also available along with a R script to analyse the temporal evolution of publications related to research efforts (IRPI).

Data and resources

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Interactive map displaying all research activities that took place at Lucky Strike - 9 MB

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Vent site locations at Lucky Strike - 1 KB

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Moorings location - 108 KB

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Samples location - 39 KB

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Navigation data retrieve from hard drive archives - 1 MB

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Navigation data retrieved from Geoocean archives - 482 KB

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Navigation data retrieved from Sismer archives - 2 MB

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Litter location - 15 KB

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Recent shuttle location - 3 KB

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Old shuttle location - 1 KB

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Results of both rounds of the delphi questionnaire about impacts of research activities. - 3 KB

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Compilation of research activities at every vent sites - 792 bytes

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IRPI cumulative values at each year and sites - 3 KB

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Database of every research publications related to Lucky Strike until 2023 - 1 MB

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Script

IRPI calculation and mapping 2024. Creation of rasters for QGIS maps and databases for analyses - 23 KB

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Analyses of IRPI temporal variations among sites and clustering analyses - 5 KB

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Breakpoint analysis of IRPI temporal evolution and bibliometry analyses - 7 KB

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Analyses to group sites according to the research activities they experienced (PCA) - 2 KB

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DOI of the product

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Seanoe

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Additional information

Date (publication)	2025-04-01
Date (revision)	2026-06-23
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	CC-BY (Creative Commons - Attribution)
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show