VentDB is an effort funded by the US National Science Foundation to build and operate a data management system for hydrothermal spring geochemistry that will host and serve the full range of compositional data acquired on seafloor hydrothermal vents from all tectonic settings. VentDB will allow legacy and future analytical data on hydrothermal springs and plumes to be professionally archived, managed, served, and integrated with related vent and geochemical data and with the broader Geoscience data set to facilitate their application to studies of geochemistry, petrology, oceanography and for educational purposes.

VentDB will compliment existing geochemical data collections such as SedDB and PetDB with a comprehensive and fully integrated compilation of geochemical data of fluids emitted from hydrothermal vents on the sea floor. VentDB will contain all published historical data as well as legacy and new data that investigators will contribute.

Release of the VentDB Data Library

We have developed the VentDB Data Library to serve as a catolog and repository for datasets of hydrothermal spring chemistry that will be incorporated in the integrated VentDB database.  The VentDB Data Library provides access to hydrothermal vent geochemical data that are submitted by investigators, until the development of the integrated VentDB database is completed.

Go to the VentDB Data Library

SUBMIT YOUR DATA: You can submit your data online. We encourage you to use the VentDB data template to organize and document your data.

Please, contact ideas@ventdb.org for any questions or feedback regarding the submission process and the data template.

Comments, questions, suggestions? Please contact us at: ideas@ventdb.org

VentDB is being developed and managed as part of the Geoinformatics for Geochemistry Program at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii.