Image Archive

The Deep Profiler Float from the Slope Base site being installed off the fantail of the R/V Thompson during Leg 2 of the OOI-NSF- Cabled Array VISIONS'15 cruise. Eric Boget from the UW Applied Physcis lab leads the deck operations. Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington; V15.

Setting sun on viewed from the R/V Thompson. Credit: Krista Nunnally, University of Washington V15

The top of the Deep Profiler mooring at the Slope Base site is marked by a large syntactic foam float. This was installed during Leg 2 of the NSF-OOI-UW Cabled Array VISIONS'15 expedition. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/ISS; V15 - ROPOS Dive R1855.

APL team wrapping yale grips to relieve tension on deployed mooring cable. Leg 2 Visions’15 expedition: Credit: Lauren Kowalski, University of Washington, V15.

A beautiful sunset on Leg 2 of the VISIONS'15 expedition. Credit: Lauren Kowalski, University of Washington, V15.

Julian onboard the R/V Thompson at the beginning of Leg 2 of the VISIONS'15 cruise. Credit: Jess Noe, University of Washington; V15.

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Grays Harbor College undergraduate, Joe Kalisch, onboard the R/V Thompson during the VISIONS'15 cruise. Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington; V15.

The HPIES instrument at 2900 m water depth as it is about to be recovered by the ROV ROPOS during Leg 2 of the VISIONS'15 expedition. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/ISS; V15.

The bow lines are released from the dock...freeing the R/V Thompson to continue her seaward journey. Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington; V15.

Tracie intent on taking in the first fire and safety meeting onboard the R/V Thompson during Leg 2 of the VISIONS'15 expedition. Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington; V15.

The ROV ROPOS places bags of pea gravel around the broadband seismometer to decrease "noise" from currents etc. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, V15.

Deb Kelley and John Delany relaxing during a break during the Leg 1-Leg 2 port call in Newport, Oregon. Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington.

A velella velella jellyfish brought onboard during Leg 1 of the VISIONS'15 cruise. Credit: Jessie Hild, University of Washington, V15.

UW School of Oceanography students, Katie Bigham and Jesse Turner, ponder Neptunea snail egg stalks from Southern Hydrate Ridge during Leg 1 of the VISIONS'15 cruise. Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V15.

UW undergranduate students, Jessie and Khadijah, examine velella velella jellyfish during Leg 1 of the VISION'15 expedition. Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V15.

Lauren Kowalski peers out to sea upon leaving Newport on Leg 2 of the VISIONS'15 expedition. Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V15.

The R/V Thompson begins its transit to the Slope Base site from Newport, Oregon during the VISIONS'15 expedition. Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V15.

Kearstin and Jessie are happy to be sailing on Leg 1 of the VISIONS'15. Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington.

The fantail of the R/V Thompson as it enters Newport, Oregon at the end of Leg 1. Most of the equipment is platforms and instruments installed in 2015 and recovered during Leg 1. Credit. Skip Denny, University of Washington.

Student group photo at the end of Leg 1, VISIONS'15 cruise. Front - left to right. Jessica Noe, Jessie HIld, Diana Park. Back row  - left to right. Lauren Kowalski, Kearstin Williams, Malea Saul, Kadijah Homoka, Jesse Turner, Chief Scientist Debbie Kelley, Katie Bigham. Credit: Julie Nelson.

Nye Beach on the north side of the entrance to Yaquina Bay taken as the R/V Thompson transits into the harbor, end of Leg 1. Credit: Skip Denny

University of Washington undergraduate, Jessie Hild, takes water samples for follow-on analyses from Niskin bottles onboard the R/V Thompson during the Cabled Array VISIONS'15 expedition. Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington.

The Pinnacle, on the west of the main methane seep sites at Southern Hydrate Ridge, is a 60 m tall, rugged carbonate edifice teaming with life - dominated by high densities of soft corals, hagfish, and small squat lobsters that hide in small cavities. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/ISS, V15.

A red jellyfish (Poralia rufescens) at Southern Hydrate Ridge undulates past the ROV ROPOS near the carbonate pinnacle site during Dive R1851. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V15.

A rockfish and a pedicellasterid starfish (possibly Ampheraster sp.) are intermixed with clams near a bacterial mat on the methane seep site, Southern Hydrate Ridge during ROPOS Dive R1850. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF, V15.

A skate swims gently past ROPOS at the base of Axial Seamount, greater than 9000 ft beneath the ocean's surface. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; ROPOS DIve R1841, V15.