On Thursday, March 7 at 7 pm, Christopher German, senior scientist of Geology and Geophysics at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will speak on what seafloor hydrothermal vents, fissures in volcanically active regions from which geothermally heated water flows, may indicate about the origin of life on Earth – and possibly elsewhere. The event will take place in the Tishman Auditorium at Bennington College.