John B. ("Jack") Corliss is a scientist who has worked in the fields of geology, oceanography, and the origins of life. This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Thermohaline circulation Oceanography (from Ocean + Greek γράφειν = write), also called oceanology or marine science, is the branch of physical geography that studies the Earths oceans and seas. ... This article focuses on modern scientific research on the origin of life. ...

Corliss received his PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the 1960s. As part of his doctoral work under Jerry van Andel, he analyzed samples of basaltic rock from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Chemical traces in these rocks showed evidence of hot-water circulation, suggesting the existence of undersea hot springs (hydrothermal vents). The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (sometimes referred to as SIO or just Scripps) in La Jolla, California is one of the oldest, largest, and most important centers for marine science research, graduate training, and public service in the world. ... Courtesy USGS The ridge was central in the breakup of Pangaea that began some 180 million years ago. ... Hydrothermal vents are fissures in a planets surface from which geothermally heated water issues. ...

Tubeworms around an undersea hydrothermal vent

Following the completion of his PhD, Corliss became a researcher at Oregon State University. In 1977, he, Richard von Herzen, and Robert Ballard lead a project using the DSV Alvin submersible to look for the presumed hydrothermal vents near the Galápagos Islands. Corliss, Jerry van Andel, and pilot Jack Donnelly were the crew of the Alvin to first discover the vents, and the unexpected community of living creatures (giant tube worms, clams, shrimp, etc.) around them. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1804x1176, 2334 KB) Hydrothermal vent tubeworms get energy from bacteria that live in their plumes. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1804x1176, 2334 KB) Hydrothermal vent tubeworms get energy from bacteria that live in their plumes. ... Oregon State University (OSU) is a research and degree-granting four-year public university located in Corvallis, Oregon. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Dr. Robert D. Ballard Robert Duane Ballard Ph. ... Alvin in 1978, a year after first exploring hydrothermal vents. ... Orthographic projection centred over the Galápagos Map of the Galápagos archipelago showing the names of the islands. ... Binomial name Riftia pachyptila M. L. Jones, 1981 Giant tube worms are marine invertebrates in the phylum Annelida (formerly grouped in phylum Pogonophora) related to tubeworms commonly found in the intertidal and pelagic zones. ... Categories: Pages needing attention | Animal stubs ... Superfamilies Alpheoidea Atyoidea Bresilioidea Campylonotoidea Crangonoidea Galatheacaridoidea Nematocarcinoidea Oplophoroidea Palaemonoidea Pandaloidea Pasiphaeoidea Procaridoidea Processoidea Psalidopodoidea Stylodactyloidea True shrimp are small, swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. ...

The discovery of the hydrothermal vent ecosystems caused Corliss to significantly shift his research, from geochemistry to the origins of life. He proposed that earliest life on Earth began in deep-sea vents. In 1980, he, John Baross, and Sarah Hoffman published a paper entitled "Hypothesis Concerning the Relationship Between Submarine Hot Springs and the Origin of Life on Earth". In 1983, he moved to Budapest to continue working independently on this hypothesis. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Paris of the East, Pearl of the Danubeor Queen of the Danube Location of Budapest in Hungary Country Hungary County Pest  - Mayor Gábor Demszky (SZDSZ) Area    - City 525. ...

Corliss' CA model of evolution. Vertical axis represents time, horizontal axes represent speciation.

In 1988, Corliss joined the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's high-performance computing division. There he began using massively parallel computers (the Goodyear MPP and later MasPar MP-1) for cellular automata simulations of evolutionary systems. Charles Darwins first sketch of an evolutionary tree from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species (1837) Speciation is the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see NASA (disambiguation). ... Aerial view of Goddard Space Flight Center. ... Massively Parallel Processing is a term used in Computer Engineering. ... The MPP The Goodyear Massively Parallel Processor (MPP) was a massively parallel processing supercomputer built by Goodyear Aerospace for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. ... MasPar Computer Corporation was a minisupercomputer vendor that was founded in 1987 by Jeff Kalb. ... A cellular automaton (plural: cellular automata) is a discrete model studied in computability theory and mathematics. ... This article is about evolution in biology. ...

In 1993, he became Director of Research at Biosphere 2 in Arizona. He was hired to bring rigor and openness to the project, following conflicts that had resulted in the mass resignation of the project's science advisory board. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Biosphere 2 Biosphere 2 is a structure built to be an artificial closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona (USA) by John Polk Allen, Space Biosphere Ventures and others. ...

In 1996, he returned to Budapest, to found and direct Central European University's Center for Complex Adaptive Systems (a.k.a. the Systems Lab). 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Central European University is a US-licensed and accredited university based in Budapest, Hungary. ...

His daughter Julie Corliss is a well-known science writer.

References

• Ballard, Robert D., 2000, The Eternal Darkness, Princeton University Press.
• Begley, Sharon. "In the Desert, Big Trouble Under Glass", Newsweek, 18 April 1994, p. 54.