Explorer Photos 1 - 60

Submarine Ring of Fire 2004 expedition science team and crew. (HR)

Geoff Lebon (foreground) and Ed Baker (background) removie plume water from the CTD bottles after a tow-yo. (HR)

The team gathers around the ROPOS ROV console to identify vent species on the sea floor. (HR)

Inspecting the sargassum catch. (HR)

Ready and waiting for action the members of the bucket brigade.

Mercer Brugler proudly displays Iridigorgia.

Inspecting hydraulic fluid from the ROV Hercules.

Working on the manipulator arm.

Going over their script for the Webcast.

Dr. Jon Moore narrates the video during the live Webcast.

Dr. Scott France prepares Isidella specimen for analysis.

Holding a bushy black coral covered in mucus. (HR)

Highly viscous mucus collected from a bushy black coral. (HR)

Mercer Brugler prepares coral specimens.

The science team works to process samples.

Puting coral tissue samples into fixative for DNA studies.

Dr. Scott France examines a piece of coral and removes a worm for later analysis.

Susan Mills examines the basalt blocks recovered from Manning Seamount.

Taking turns on watch in the control van.

Examining a black coral specimen just taken out of the bio box.

Graduate student Mercer Brugler processes samples by preserving them in ethanol.

Dr. Jon Moore works with specimens collected from Bear Seamount.

IFE ROV electrical engineer Dave Wright fixes the Argus wiring that malfunctioned

IFE ROV technicians/pilots work to disconnect the fiber optic cable from Hercules.

IFE computer technicians coil up the fiber optic cable.

Discussing possible scenarios for the ROV power failures in the control van.

Ronald H. Brown launch being recovered.

Acquiring bathymetric data in the computer lab on the Ronald H. Brown.

Some of the members of the science party pose in their survival suits after a drill.

Training on the audio system in the IFE ROV control van.

Working to produce education / outreach materials.

A softball attached to a net handle becomes a "gripper" for the ROV manipulator arm.

The 2004 Gulf of Alaska Seamount Expedition Science party.

Bacterial cells from Seawater are traped in very small pore size filters for later identification.

Naomi Ward prepares to collect mucus and polyp samples from this big bamboo specimen.

Scientists swarm the basket after Alvin’s return to the surface.

Students at UCAP school in Providence, R.I. talk by satellite phone with NOAA scientist.

Chief Scientist, Tom Shirley, discusses the results of the cruise with reporters and educators.

This large dead bamboo coral skeleton was successfully collected by the Alvin. (HR)

A fragile live specimen retrieved from the Alvin right after it surfaced. (HR)

The gruesome task of cleaning the tissue and mucus off of a bamboo coral colony. (HR)

A scientist collects mucus from a large bamboo coral specimen. (HR)

Dr. Tom Shirley removes an organism from a piece of basalt. (HR)

Talking to the students at UCAP.

Scientist answer UCAP students’ questions, while the call is videotaped.

A former student remembers old times, talking to the director and teachers at UCAP.

A scientist uses a hand lens to study a billet, or tabul.

Catalina Martinez enters the DSV Alvin for her first dive.

Jason Chaytor shines a flashlight out the porthole to assist Alvin pilot. (HR)

A spectacular sunset and rainbow that lasted late into the evening.

The pre-dawn deployment of the XTB.

Rachel Teasdale at pre-dawn XTB data check.

Carey DeLauder and Patrick Neumann scan the Gulf of Alaska horizon.

Patrick Neumann watches and learns from Eddy Estaniel.

Patrick Neumann hard at work.

Captain Margaret "Mitzi" Crane.

Naomi Ward reviews Alvin dive procedures. (HR)

Nicolás Alvarado hits a winner at the ping pong table.

Alison prepares to study the absorption and reflectance properties of the fish’s fluorescent lens. (HR)

Blue water divers use glass jars to capture gelatinous specimens for further study in the ship’s laboratory. (HR)

Explorer Photos 61 - 120

Members of the Deep Scope science party assist Sharmishtha to quickly process the sediment profile peepers. (HR)

Seconds after the peepers reached the surface they were removed from the submersible basket and rinsed with seawater. (HR)

Scuba divers enter the mid-water realm to collect gelatinous creatures. (HR)

A few members of the science party worked to re-engineer the optical jelly on the Eye-In-The-Sea. (HR)

Tammy Frank and Nicole McMullen load baited benthic traps

Dr. Frank holds a hagfish caught in one of the benthic traps. (HR)

Dr. Edie Widder inspects the Eye-In-The-Sea

Erika Heine begins programming the Eye-In-The-Sea.

Captain Mike Schoeller on the bridge the morning of our departure.

The survival (aka Gumby) suit protects from hypothermia.

J.D. Dubik enters the Johnson-Sea-Link II for a three-hour dive. (HR)

Susan DeVictor photographing marine organisms (HR)

Christina Ralph describes the beardfish she observed during her dive

View of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute’s ship channel

View from the bridge of R/V Seward Johnson

Demo of immersion or “Gumby” suit

2003 Mountains in the Sea science team

Alvin Expedition leader, Dudley Foster.

Dr. Scott France smells a sponge.

Dr. Jon Moore photographs Paragorgia coral.

Laura Rear, Knauss Sea Grant Marine Policy Fellow.

Anne Simpson works with the coral polyp samples she collected.

Sorting animals from the trawl catch at Bear Seamount in 2002.

Mercer Brugler holds up a black coral specimen.

Captain George Silva, of the R/V Atlantis.

Scott France holds up a deep sea coral. (HR)

Melissa Ryan holds up compressed styrofoam cups

Nick Forfinski, hydrographer.

Dave Simms, Ivar Babb, and Nick Forfiski discuss bathymetry acquisition.

Peter Auster with beard.

Peter Auster without beard.

Adjusting a devise on Alvin’s manipulator arms.

Anne Simpson trying on a mask.

Students returning from their first Alvin dive.

The 20 science party members.

Mark, Alex, and, Pat standing in front of DSV Alvin.

Alvin pilot Bruce Strickrott in the top lab.

John Braxton during his first Alvin dive.

Megan Ward and John Braxton, before their dive in Alvin.

Carolyn and Anne standing on Alvin catwalk after a dive.

Dissecting vesicomyid clams.

Discussing a profile of the Blake Ridge Diapir.

Examining a rock collected from approximately 3400 m water depth.

Educator Specialist Margaret Olsen on top of the DSV Alvin.

Assembling ‘squeezers’ used to extract pore water from sediment samples.

Trying on the emergency breathing apparatus .

Rich Styles peers out of a porthole in the aft chamber of the JSL II submersible. (HR)

Eating Judy’s amazing cooking.

While working on deck, the science party and crew are required to wear hard hats and life vests. (HR)

Whiting bathymetry data helps determine target sites for upcoming dives. (HR)

Jerry McLelland at the microscope.

Teacher-at-sea Connie Leverett after a 200-ft dive in the JSL II.

"Kids at sea" (aka the scientists) view the latest sample from 1,400 ft. (HR)

Chief Scientist Charlie Barans contemplates what to do next.

Jerry McLelland reaches into the pipe dredge.

Project Oceanica Director Leslie Sautter pulls together expedition-related educational products.

Expedition Team.

A boat picks up the Media crew.

Initial work up at sea

Educator at Sea, inside the stern compartment of the JSLII.