[From the INDEEP mailing list]
Hiromi Watanabe (JAMSTEC) and numerous colleagues recently completed a project entitled TAIGA, to reveal the linkage between hydrothermal activity and micro- to mega-organisms, and the results are summarized in an e-book, which can be downloaded freely from SpringerLink;
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-4-431-54865-2
The results of the project have been summarized comprehensively in 50 chapters, and this book provides an overall introduction and relevant topics on the mid-ocean ridge system of the Indian Ocean and on the back-arc systems of the Southern Mariana Trough and Okinawa Trough.