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Glass Sponge, feather seastars, Squat Lobster

Beautiful Animal Communities On the Mooring

A large glass sponge hides a squat lobster that is peeking out. Credit: UW/NSF-OO/WHOI; J2-1514; V23

A small nudibranch scurries across the Shallow Profiler platform. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; J2-1514; V23.

A squat lobster hides in hydroids on the Offshore Shallow Profiler mooring platform. It is joined by a purple anemone, 5 legged briittel stars and feather seastars. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; J2-1514; V23.

Feather Seastars and squat lobsters are common on the Shallow Profiler mooring platform at the Oregon Offshore site. Credit: UA/NSF-OOI/WHOI; V23.

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The analytical lab on the R/V Thompson. Credit: J. Boden, V23.

A sculpin in the caldera of Axial Seamount rests atop a rubble pile of broken basalts. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, ROPOS Dive R1470.

The Jason control van during VISIONS'20 showing various views while working at Diva. Credit: University of Washington.

A bulb of basalt on top of a drooping pillow basalt shows classicbread crust texture on its top. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Ropos Dive R2246. V22.

A new blow out cavern at Einstein's Grotto is bounded by think yellow microbial mats and thinner white mats. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; ROPOS Dive R2224; V22.

A small anydrite-rich chimney grows at the base of Castle in the International District Hydrothermal Field. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; ROPOS Dive R2246; V23.

O2 level of the ship looking at the shipping crates strapped to two grey beams and behind them the bridge of the ship. Credit. M. Borden, Carleton College, V23.

Jason control van, filled with monitors showing a variety of camera shots and information about the ROV. Credit: M. Borden, Carleton College, V23.

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The sun sets on the Pacific as viewed through a portal on the R/V Thompson. Credit: J. Boden, V23.

Members of the VISIONS'23 program gaze across the Pacific upon leafing Newport, OR. Credit: J. Boden, V23.

Squat lobsters hide in the forest of feather seastars on the Oregon Offshore mooring platform at 200m. Translucent, scallop shaped mollusks are abundant, as are the seastars. Small red-plumed worms, feather dusters, also call this home. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; J2-1514, V23.

Jason emerges from a dive at the Oregon Offshore Site. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V23.

The Offshore Mooring is a beautiful island hosting pink sea urchins, light orange anemones, white glass sponges (right), 5-legged brittle stars, feather seastars, amazing nudibranchs and corals (far left), corabranching hydroids with pink nudibranch egg clusters, and a swarm of krill. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; J2-1517; V23.