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Submarine Ring of Fire 2004 expedition science team and crew. (HR)
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Geoff Lebon (foreground) and Ed Baker (background) removie plume water from the CTD bottles after a tow-yo. (HR)
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The team gathers around the ROPOS ROV console to identify vent species on the sea floor. (HR)
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Inspecting the sargassum catch. (HR)
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Ready and waiting for action the members of the bucket brigade.
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Mercer Brugler proudly displays Iridigorgia.
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Draining hydraulic fluid from the ROV Hercules.
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Working on the manipulator arm.
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Going over their script for the Webcast.
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Dr. Jon Moore narrates the video during the live Webcast.
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Dr. Scott France prepares Isidella specimen for analysis.
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Holding a bushy black coral covered in mucus. (HR)
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Highly viscous mucus collected from a bushy black coral. (HR)
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Mercer Brugler prepares coral specimens.
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The science team works to process samples.
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Puting coral tissue samples into fixative for DNA studies.
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Dr. Scott France examines a piece of coral and removes a worm for later analysis.
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Susan Mills examines the basalt blocks recovered from Manning Seamount.
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Taking turns on watch in the control van.
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Examining a black coral specimen just taken out of the bio box.
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Graduate student Mercer Brugler processes samples by preserving them in ethanol.
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Dr. Jon Moore works with specimens collected from Bear Seamount.
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IFE ROV electrical engineer Dave Wright fixes the Argus wiring that malfunctioned
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IFE ROV technicians/pilots work to disconnect the fiber optic cable from Hercules.
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IFE computer technicians coil up the fiber optic cable.
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Discussing possible scenarios for the ROV power failures in the control van.
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Ronald H. Brown launch being recovered.
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Acquiring bathymetric data in the computer lab on the Ronald H. Brown.
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Some of the members of the science party pose in their survival suits after a drill.
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Training on the audio system in the IFE ROV control van.
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Working to produce education / outreach materials.
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A softball attached to a net handle becomes a "gripper" for the ROV manipulator arm.
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The 2004 Gulf of Alaska Seamount Expedition Science party.
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Bacterial cells from Seawater are traped in very small pore size filters for later identification.
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Naomi Ward prepares to collect mucus and polyp samples from this big bamboo specimen.
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Scientists swarm the basket after Alvin’s return to the surface.
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Students at UCAP school in Providence, R.I. talk by satellite phone with NOAA scientist.
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Chief Scientist, Tom Shirley, discusses the results of the cruise with reporters and educators.
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This large dead bamboo coral skeleton was successfully collected by the Alvin. (HR)
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A fragile live specimen retrieved from the Alvin right after it surfaced. (HR)
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The gruesome task of cleaning the tissue and mucus off of a bamboo coral colony. (HR)
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A scientist collects mucus from a large bamboo coral specimen. (HR)
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Dr. Tom Shirley removes an organism from a piece of basalt. (HR)
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Talking to the students at UCAP.
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Scientist answer UCAP students’ questions, while the call is videotaped.
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A former student remembers old times, talking to the director and teachers at UCAP.
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A scientist uses a hand lens to study a billet, or tabul.
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Catalina Martinez enters the DSV Alvin for her first dive.
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Jason Chaytor shines a flashlight out the porthole to assist Alvin pilot. (HR)
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A spectacular sunset and rainbow that lasted late into the evening.
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The pre-dawn deployment of the XTB.
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Rachel Teasdale at pre-dawn XTB data check.
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Carey DeLauder and Patrick Neumann scan the Gulf of Alaska horizon.
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Patrick Neumann watches and learns from Eddy Estaniel.
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Patrick Neumann hard at work.
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Captain Margaret "Mitzi" Crane.
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Naomi Ward reviews Alvin dive procedures. (HR)
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Nicolás Alvarado hits a winner at the ping pong table.
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Alison prepares to study the absorption and reflectance properties of the fish’s fluorescent lens. (HR)
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Blue water divers use glass jars to capture gelatinous specimens for further study in the ship’s laboratory. (HR)
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Members of the Deep Scope science party assist Sharmishtha to quickly process the sediment profile peepers. (HR)
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Seconds after the peepers reached the surface they were removed from the submersible basket and rinsed with seawater. (HR)
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Scuba divers enter the mid-water realm to collect gelatinous creatures. (HR)
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A few members of the science party worked to re-engineer the optical jelly on the Eye-In-The-Sea. (HR)
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Tammy Frank and Nicole McMullen load baited benthic traps
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Dr. Frank holds a hagfish caught in one of the benthic traps. (HR)
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Dr. Edie Widder inspects the Eye-In-The-Sea
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Erika Heine begins programming the Eye-In-The-Sea.
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Captain Mike Schoeller on the bridge the morning of our departure.
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The survival (aka Gumby) suit protects from hypothermia.
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J.D. Dubik enters the Johnson-Sea-Link II for a three-hour dive. (HR)
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Susan DeVictor photographing marine organisms (HR)
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Christina Ralph describes the beardfish she observed during her dive
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View of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute’s ship channel
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View from the bridge of R/V Seward Johnson
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Demo of immersion or “Gumby” suit
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2003 Mountains in the Sea science team
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Alvin Expedition leader, Dudley Foster.
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Dr. Scott France smells a sponge.
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Dr. Jon Moore photographs Paragorgia coral.
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Laura Rear, Knauss Sea Grant Marine Policy Fellow.
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Anne Simpson works with the coral polyp samples she collected.
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Sorting animals from the trawl catch at Bear Seamount in 2002.
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Mercer Brugler holds up a black coral specimen.
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Captain George Silva, of the R/V Atlantis.
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Scott France holds up a deep sea coral. (HR)
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Melissa Ryan holds up compressed styrofoam cups
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Nick Forfinski, hydrographer.
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Dave Simms, Ivar Babb, and Nick Forfiski discuss bathymetry acquisition.
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Peter Auster with beard.
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Peter Auster without beard.
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Adjusting a devise on Alvin’s manipulator arms.
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Anne Simpson trying on a mask.
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Students returning from their first Alvin dive.
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The 20 science party members.
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Mark, Alex, and, Pat standing in front of DSV Alvin.
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Alvin pilot Bruce Strickrott in the top lab.
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John Braxton during his first Alvin dive.
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Megan Ward and John Braxton, before their dive in Alvin.
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Carolyn and Anne standing on Alvin catwalk after a dive.
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Dissecting vesicomyid clams.
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Discussing a profile of the Blake Ridge Diapir.
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Examining a rock collected from approximately 3400 m water depth.
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Educator Specialist Margaret Olsen on top of the DSV Alvin.
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Assembling ‘squeezers’ used to extract pore water from sediment samples.
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Trying on the emergency breathing apparatus .
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Rich Styles peers out of a porthole in the aft chamber of the JSL II submersible. (HR)
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Eating Judy’s amazing cooking.
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Video
View a slide show of Students at UCAP school in Providence, R.I. as they talk by satellite phone with NOAA scientist.
