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November 19, 2020: Lander Assembly

Marta Maria Cecchetto and Annabell Moser, both Ph.D. students at Heriot-Watt University at the time, assemble one of the “seafloor landers” used during the DeepCCZ expedition in 2018. These landers were designed to descend autonomously to the seabed 5,000 meters (3.1 miles) below, where they collected all kinds of data, including photographs and videos of deep-sea animals; geochemical measurements on the sediments; and rates of oxygen uptake (respiration) by the diverse biota of microbes, worms, and crustaceans living in the abyssal ooze.

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Marta Maria Cecchetto and Annabell Moser, both Ph.D. students at Heriot-Watt University at the time, assemble one of the “seafloor landers” used during the DeepCCZ expedition in 2018. These landers were designed to descend autonomously to the seabed 5,000 meters (3.1 miles) below, where they collected all kinds of data, including photographs and videos of deep-sea animals; geochemical measurements on the sediments; and rates of oxygen uptake (respiration) by the diverse biota of microbes, worms, and crustaceans living in the abyssal ooze.

Meet some of the other women who contributed to the expedition in this mission log, “Women in the Ocean Sciences: A Slow Turning of the Tide.”