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This platform called an elevator is a simple way to send instruments and sampling devices to the bottom of the ocean during ROV operations. The yellow spheres contain the floats that enable the elevator to come back to the surface when an acoustic signal is sent from the ship for the platform to do so. During this deployment, a USBL beacon (one Jason's navigational tools) is being lowered for calibration before we begin our dives at Axial Seamount. Photo by Katherine Turner and Carlos Sanchez. 

Sample of a thin sheet flow from Axial Seamount collected with Jason 2.

Cody Youngbull and Casey Canfield retrieve ASU's laser housing from 2500m depth. The housing was lowered for a pressure test to test the integrity of the laser housing before sending it down on the ROV Jason. Photo by Carlos Sanchez and Katherine Turner. 

Brett Dennis-Duke and Bob Morris prepare the lab for microbiology sampling. Photo by Carlos Sanchez and Katherine Turner.

Mark and En practice getting into their Gumby suits during the safety meeting prior to transiting to Axial Volcano.

Giora fully zipped into his survival suit. In the cold waters of the NE Pacific these are critical pieces of safety equipment on the ship and it is important to practice getting into them quickly.

The Sentry van is loaded onto a truck for shipping back to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Giora Proskurowski tries on his gumby suit during the safety meeting. 

The R/V Thompson briefly docked at Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, OR for a personnel transfer and to offload the AUV Sentry. 

We woke up to a quiet, misty morning in Newport Oregon.

Sentry being moved for placement into its container van.

Sentry gets loaded gently into its container van for safe shipping back to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod.

Members of the Leg 1 science and Jason teams gather on the fan tail the last day of the cruise.

Likhi Ondov presents results from his work on flow cytometry and plankton distribution during the Enlighten'10 Expedition. He will continue to collect data on this project during Leg 2.

Derek gives his presentation on the relationship of active seep sites and methane flux from the seafloor into the overlying ocean.

Sam Monk gives his student presentation during the last night of Leg 1 of the Enlighten'10 Expedition.

Planned schedule of operations for July 31-August 1.  

Sam giving his presentation on the use of Sentry data to calculate currents at Southern Hydrate Ridge.  

Martha giving her presentation of the relationship of seep activity, geology and biological populations at Southern Hydrate Ridge.

Sentry is loaded back into its van and will be trucked back to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 

Science Party of Enlighten '10 Leg 1

A carbonate sample rich in fossilized gastropods from Southern Hydrate Ridge collected with Jason 2. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

Fossil-rich carbonate sample from the Pinnacle on Southern Hydrate Ridge collected with Jason 2. Credit: M Elend, University of Washington.  

A carbonate sample from Southern Hydrate Ridge collected on TN252, Jason dive J2-512. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

Carbonate sample from Southern Hydrate Ridge

Spiral, by John Delaney

The R/V Thompson weathers a storm off Washington and Oregon a few years ago.