Image Archive

ASU faculty member Cody Youngbull shows one of his sensorbots that he will be deploying at Axial Seamount. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

UW-APL engineer James Tilley and U of Western Ontario student Alexandra Powell help piece together Cody Youngbull's sensorbots for deployment. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

UW undergraduate students Adrian Rembold and Cody Turner enjoy the view as the Thompson pulls out of port in Newport, OR. (photo by Martha James) 

Newcomers on the ship attended a safety meeting before the transit to Axial Seamount began. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

August 19th marked the port stop between Leg 1 and 2 of VISIONS'11. The Thompson was docked at the new NOAA pier for a few hours in the afternoon while there was a partial personnel change. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

Most of the Leg 1 science party. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

Chuck McGuire plays a few tunes during Bosun's poetry night. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

John reads Hughes during Bosun's poetry night. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

Thompson crew member, Dana Africa, and Dean Lisa Graumlich knit while they listen during Bosun's poetry night. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Chris Holm plays an Eddie Vedder song during Bosun's poetry night. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

Alden Denny reads a limerick during Bosun's poetry night. Lexi Brewer, Debbie Kelley, and Kendra Daly listen. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

Mike Harrington reads Billy Collins during Bosun's poetry night. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

Sue Banahan reads a Pablo Neruda poem during Bosun's poetry night. 

Captain John Wilson reads a poem at Bosun's poetry night. (Photo by Allison Fundis) 

Jim (the Thompson's lead engineer), Allison Fundis, and Alden Denny enjoy a little down time. (photo by Captain John Wilson) 

A little down time in the sun during a fantail BBQ. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Skip Denny and Dana Manalang log events during their 4 hour watch in the ROPOS control room. Mitch Elend and Monica Riess (back) work to stich together images into a photomosaic as they come in from the digital still camera mounted on the ROV. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

Josh Chernoy and Vincent Auger of the ROPOS crew secure the USBL pole that is used to navigate the ROV. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Mitch Elend works to stitch images of the seafloor at Southern Hydrate Ridge together into a photo mosaic in real time. OOI scientists will use the final mosaic to plan the instrument layout for the cabled observatory component of the OOI. (photo by Allison Fundis)

The ROV ROPOS controls set up in a lab aboard the R/V Thompson. The ROV pilot, co-pilot, and a scientist sit in front of these monitors and controls during the dive. A ROPOS navigator and a team of scientists are also in the room logging and aiding in dive plans. (photo by Debbie Kelley)

Vincent Auger of the ROPOS crew secures the USBL (ultra-short baseline) pole. USBL is one of the compenents of the ROPOS navigation system that is used to determine precisely where on the seafloor the vehicle is. (photo by Mitch Elend)

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)

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) 

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)