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Members of the ROPOS crew (Josh Chernoy, Vincent Auger, and Reuben Mills) take a break after spending the entire night reconfiguring the components on the ROV to be setup for down-looking mosaics. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Members of the science party prepare the gravity core for deployment the night of Aug 16th. The gravity core results will be used to ensure that the sediment thickness is deep enough to bury cable up the summit of Southern Hydrate Ridge. 

Injecting a gas sample into the gas chromatograph to analyze the concentration of methane. (photo by Allison Fundis)

The UW Applied Physics Laboratory frame was deployed at Southern Hydrate Ridge for a year to test the weathering of an epoxy coating on the frame. 

Chris Holm, OSU Instrument Technician

Kendra Daly, OOI-RSN senior project scientist, and Chris Holm, OSU field engineer, look at plankton collected from a net tow under a microscope. (phot by Allison Fundis) 

An active methane hydrate seep site at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Emanating out of the cavity in the sediments are bubbles from gas hydrate dissociation within the shallow sediments. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF

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Beggiatoa bacterial matting at Southern Hydrate Ridge. The green lasers are turned on for scale and are 10 cm apart. 

Beggiatoa matting (white) at Southern Hydrate Ridge with small snails. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF

Dean of UW's College of the Environment, Lisa Graumlich. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

The UW-Applied Physics Laboratory's secondary node test frame after it was recovered from being deployed at Hydrate since last summer. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

sunset off the Thompson's fantail. (photo by Allison Fundis)

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Monitoring the CTD data as the CTD is lowered almost 800 m down in the water column August 14. From left to right: Alden Denny (UW graduate student), Lexi Brewer and Cody Turner (UW undergraduate students), and Orest Kawka and Kendra Daly (OOI-RSN project scientists). (photo by Ed McNichol)

Cody Turner, a UW undergraduate student, and Orest Kawka, OOI-RSN project scientist, deploy the CTD at Southern Hydrate Ridge August 14. 

We have had quite a few sharks and mola mola visit the ship since we have been out at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: Allison Fundis, University of Washington, V11.

ROPOS is launched with the BIA recovery frame attached to the undercarriage. The hinged floats in the foreground are clamped around ROPOS's tether to absorb any shock that travels down the tether from wave motion on the surface. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

The backbone interface assembly on the seafloor at Hydrate Ridge during the L3 engineering tests. 

The ROV ROPOS being lowered with the BFRA (bottom frame recovery assembly) during the L3 primary node equipment-ROPOS interface tests. (photo by Mitch Elend) 

Lisa Graumlich, Dean of UW's College of the Environment, and Debbie Kelley, Co-Chief Scientist, with the R/V Thompson. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

One of Evan Solomon's mosquitoes (a flow meter) deployed at Southern Hydrate Ridge August 14, 2011 with the ROV ROPOS. 

Moonrise on August 14. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

The Thompson with ROPOS in the water diving at Southern Hydrate Ridge. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

The R/V Thompson with the ROV ROPOS's crane and tether over the port side. (photo by Allison Fundis)