Editorial: Rising stars in hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: 2021

Abstract

Research in the ecology and biogeochemistry of hydrothermal vents and methane seeps are driven—just like all science—by the hard work of early career scientists. To highlight recent work and invaluable contributions of young scholars we wanted to specifically focus on this demographic group in this Research Topic. Thus, the first authors of all nine articles featured here are graduate students, postdocs, and assistant professors at the beginning of their career and almost all senior authors are early- or mid-career principal investigators. The articles featured here span a broad range of environments around the world, from the deep sea, via shallow marine regions to laboratory cultures, using a broad range of methods from biogeochemical measurements to multi-omics.