Image Archive

Jason gets a live portrait taken while diving in the International District Hydrothermal Field by the Regional Cabled Array digital still camera. The lights on the ROV were turned off, and APL engineers in the UW Operations turned the camera on from onshore, >500 km away. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF, V17.

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The weird fish at 2900 m water depth at the Slope Base site, visits us almost every year. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V17.

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The R/V Revelle transits under calm seas to Axial Seamount, the largest and most active volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Credit: Hanis Zulaikha, University of Washington.

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Eve Hudson and Kelsy Cain help clean the Science Pod recovered from Axial Seamount after a 1-year deployment. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V17.

Triana Litchendorf, an engineer with the UW Applied Physics Laboratory observes the Science Pod recovered after a year at 200-50 m beneat the oceans surface. It is covered in biological communities that include smalle scallops and a barnacle. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V17.

The R/V Roger Revelle is tied up at the Newport NOAA facility on a peaceful summer night. Credit: Carlos Arcila, Puerto Rico, V17

The Science Pod component from the winched shallow profiler comes onboard the R/V Revelle. It was completely free of animal growth when installed summer of 2016. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

Carlos is a senior undergraduate in Puerto Rico. Credit: Carlos Arcilia.

A close up view of the newly installed winched Shallow Profiler at the Oregon Offshore site. The platform is at 200 m water depth. The manipulator arm of the ROV Jason is about to pull a couple of pull pins to let the Science Pod be free. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI.

A close up of the cabled Shallow Profiler Mooring at the Oregon Offshore site showing the Platform Interface Assembly (left) and the top of the winched Shallow Profiler Science Pod (right). The platform inbetween was installed in 2014 and is now heavily colonized by animals. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI.

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A gift from Monique Bells' papa is shared at sea. Credit: Monique Bell, University of Washington.

Several albatross were "hanging out" around the R/V Revelle at the Oregon Offshore site. The wingspan from one tip of one wing to the other can reach 80 inches. Credit: Hanis Zulaikha, University of Washington.

Brittle Stars, crinoids and sea urchins recovered from the Shallow Profiler Mooring packages at the Oregon Offshore site. Credit: Hanis Zulaikha, University of Washington.

UW Oceanography student, Hanis Zulaikha, learns about the CTD from Julie Nelson, Grays Harbor College, prior to its first deployment on the VISIONS17 UW-NSF-OOI Cabled Array cruise. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

Monique Bell samples fluids from 200 m beneath the oceans' surface collected with a CTD during the UW-NSF-OOI Cabled Array operations and maintenance cruise. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

Eve Hudson, a high school student taking classes at Peninsula College, learns to sample fluids collected with the CTD on the first cast of the Cabled Array OOI-NSF-UW VISIONS'17 cruise. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

Kelsy Cain, a student in the Kelley Lab at the UW Center for Environmental, takes water samples to filter, and then grow microbes under experimental conditions. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

Katie Gonzalez and Willem Weertman take water samples from the first CTD cast on the VISIONS17, OOI-NSF cruise. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

Life thrives on the Shallow Profiler Mooring platforms at 200 m beneath the oceans' surface. This 12 ft across mooring platform is coated in dense communities of very large anenomes, small pink sea urchins, feathery brown crinoids , and small crabs and shrimp...the closer you look the more you see. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/Jason.

The ROV Jason enters the water at the Cabled Array Offshore Oregon site, water depth 600 m. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

Alex Andronikides (Queens College, New York) and Willem Weertman (UW Oceanography) watch the first launch of Jason on the UW-NSF-OOI VISIONS'17 cruise. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

The ROV Jason enters the water for the first dive (J2970) of the UW-NSF Regional Cabled Array cruise. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.