Image Archive

Ridgeia tube worms (left) and palm worms (right) on the side of a chimney at ASHES vent field in Axial Caldera. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1197, V19

Ridgeia tube worms (left) and palm worms (right) on the side of a chimney at ASHES vent field in Axial Caldera. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1197, V19

The bright red gill plumes of Ridgeia tube worms growing around a hydrothermal vent at ASHES in Axial Caldera. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1197, V19

Red Ridgeia tube worm gills and white bacterial mats growing around a hydrothermal vent at ASHES in Axial Caldera. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1197, V19

Ridgeia tube worm gill plumes contrast with the white bacterial mats growing around a hydrothermal vent at ASHES in Axial Caldera. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1197, V19

Close-up of Ridgeia worm tubes and gill plumes at a hydrothermal vent at ASHES in Axial Caldera. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1197, V19

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A hydrothermal vent chimney at ASHES in Axial Caldera, covered with Ridgeia tube worms, palm worms, limpets, scale worms, and bacteria. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1197, V19

Palm worms extending up the side of a hydrothermal vent chimney at ASHES in Axial Caldera. A scale worm and limpets are on the left side of the chimney. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1197, V19

Scale worms crawling over filamentous bacterial mats and blue ciliates on the side of a hydrothermal vent chimney at ASHES in Axial Caldera. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1197, V19

A Giant Blob Sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus; ID from B. Frable, SIO) swam over to stare disapprovingly at our temperature probes prior to the thermistor survey at ASHES vent field on Axial Volcano (1540 m). Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1196, V19

Filamentous bacteria and blue ciliates growing on the side of a hydrothermal vent chimney at ASHES in Axial Caldera. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1197, V19

A deep-sea slime star (Hymenaster sp.) at 2900 meters depth, off the coast of Oregon. Photo credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1182, V19

Flytrap Anemone (so-named for obvious reasons) attached to a glass sponge stalk at 2900 meters depth, off the coast of Oregon. Photo credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1182, V19

A very large brisingid sea star (ID from C. Mah, Smithsonian), plus a white anemone attached to the OOI electro-optical cable. We saw a ton of these during the survey, at 2900 meters depth off the coast of Oregon. Photo credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1182, V19

A brisingid starfish, orange anemone, and a soft-bodied echinothuriid sea urchin (the purple guy at bottom), clustered around a junction in the OOI electro-optical cable. 2900 meters depth, off the coast of Oregon. Photo credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1182, V19

An eelpout (Pachycara sp. according to B. Frable, SIO) laying on the seafloor next to Primary Node PN1A at Slope Base in 2019. Photo credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1182, V19

Pink sea anemones attached to the Slope Base Primary Node PN1A. Photo credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1182, V19

A pudgy cusk eel (Spectrunculus grandis) swimming by a marker with flytrap anemones attached to it at Slope Base (2900 meters) in 2019. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1182, V19

A side-on view of a dinner plate jelly in the water column above Southern Hydrate Ridge. Photo credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1179, V19

Sea pen and brittle stars on the sediment at Southern Hydrate Ridge in 2019. Photo credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1176, V19

A corallimorph sea anemone growing in a clam bed at Southern Hydrate Ridge in 2019. Photo credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1172, V19

Pom-pom anemone, pink sea urchins, and brittle stars on the seafloor at the Oregon Offshore site (600m depth). Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1170, V19

Pom-pom anemone, pink sea urchin, and brittle stars on the seafloor at the Oregon Offshore site (600m depth). Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1170, V19

A wolf eel swimming past the Jason undervator at the Oregon Shelf (80 m) site in 2019. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1162, V19

A sea cucumber (likely Paelopatides sp.) next to some cables at Slope Base. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1160, V19

A pudgy cusk eel (Spectrunculus grandis) swimming by one of the OOI cables at Slope Base (2900 meters) in 2019. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, Dive J2-1159, V19