Image Archive

The base of the animal-covered, actively venting Mushroom vent in the ASHES hydrothermal field. Tubeworms, blue ciliates, palm and sulfide worms and limpets cover the structure. The high definition camera is in the background. Credit. UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI V20.

Beautiful purple-blue ciliates, white filamentous bacteria and tube worms with red hemoglobin-filled plumes, and limpets colonize the outside of the Mushroom edifice at ASHES. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI V20.

Beautiful palm worms atop the Mushroom edifice wave in the warm, nutrient-rich fluids. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI V20.

A tripod hosting an array of thermistors deployed in a diffuse flow site in the ASHES vent field in support of the NSF-funded project to Dr. K. Bemis, Rutgers University. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI V20.

The top of Inferno hosts numerous actively venting spires that change yearly. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI: V20

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The Deep Profiler vehicle is latched onto the mooring cable at Axial Base during the VISIONS 20 expedition. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI.V20

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The wand of the temperature-pH-H2S instrument is inserted into the throat of the Diva vent. In the foreground, titanium water bottles used for sampling the high temperature vent fluids are secured on the front of Jason. Credit. UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI. V2

An instrumented Deep Profiler is installed at Axial Base - over a 17 month period instrumented vehicles transited over 8 million ft of ocean water. Credit. UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI. V20.

The newly installed HD camera lights up a small, actively venting hot spring chimney at the base of Mushroom. A small rubble pile at the base of the spigot is testament to the collapse and regrowth of this~ 1 m-tall chimney. Credit. UW/NSF-OOI V20.

During testing of the cabled high definition camera, which streams live imagery to shore every three hours, the camera lights up Jason at working at nearly a mile beneath the oceans surface on this active volcano. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF. V20.

An encrusted broadband hydrophone is being turned at the Oregon Shelf site after being on the seafloor for a year. Credit. UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI V19.

The low power junction box (LJ01D), which provides power, bandwidth, and communications to RCA instrumentation at the Oregon Shelf site (80 m), is now home to a vibrant community of sea anemones. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI. V19.

The Benthic Experiment Platform visited by the ROV Jason in 2019 during the VISIONS'19 maintenance expedition. Credit. UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI. V19.

This map shows the Eastern Caldera site and infrastructure as installed in 2019. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

This map shows cabled infrastructure as installed at the Central Caldera site in 2019. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

Location of infrastructure at the Oregon Offshore site prior to the VISIONS'20 expedition. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V20.

This map shows the locations of instrumentation as installed in 2019.

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