Image Archive

Educator John Wonderly Collecting Fluid Samples

Gina Hansen Samples Fluids From The Deep

Gina Hansen First Day in ROPOS Control Room

Charlie and Colin Collecting Fluid Samples

VISIONS'14 undergraduate students use the bow of the R/V Thompson for their outdoor study session. Image Credit: Leslie Sautter, College of Charleston; V14.

Leg 1 University of Washington participants Skip Denny, Katie Bigham and Sam Albertson watch ROPOS' progress during dive R1716. Each action viewed and recorded on HD video must be carefully logged and documented with still photographs. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1716; V14.

John Wonderly, from Clallam Bay school, collects fluid samples during the VISIONS14 expedition. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington; V14.

Gina Hansen, University of Washington Bioengineering student, helps takes water samples collected at ~ 9000 ft beneath the ocean's surface near Axial Seamount (volcano). Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V14.

Keith Shepherd, Operations Manager for the Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility, oversees the lauch of ROPOS for Dive R1713. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington; V14.

Leg 1 students assist ship's crew to deploy the CTD. Photo credit:

The Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) probe lies within a large carousel of Niskin water bottles. The carousel is lowered to the seafloor while the CTD makes measurements. On the 'ride' up, a person on deck triggers the water bottles to close (one at a time) to collect a water sample at different depths. Photo credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washinton, V14.

Ben Brand (Univ. of Washington) teaches UW students Don Setiawan and Krista Nunnally to prepare the bungie cords used to tie down the spooled cable's end to the outer part of the ROCLS frame. O-rings provide an easy grab for the ROV's manipulator arm. Photo credit: Leslie Sautter, College of Charleston, V14.

University of Washington, School of Oceanography students watch the first CTD operation on the R/V Thompson. Here, they learn how to safely handle lines, sample ocean water, and conduct analyes onboard once the CTD returns to the deck. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V14.

Gina looks out toward the control room wall of monitors, watching ROPOS work near the seafloor.

Krista Nunnnally, Gina Hansen, and Don Setiawan watch ROPOS operations in the ROPOS control room during Dive R1712. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V14.

Katie Bigham on the R/V Thompson awaiting the ship's departure from Pier 90 in Seattle. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V14.

Sam Albertson, Don Setiawan, and Katie Bigham look out to the west, awaiting the departure of the R/V Thompson from Seattle. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington V14.

University of Washington, School of Oceanography undergraduate, Jesse Turner, practises getting into a "gumby" suit during a safety meeting onboard the R/ V Thomas G. Thompson. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V14.

VISIONS'14 students onboard the R/V Thompson their first night. From left to right: Don Setiawan, Gina Hansen, Jesse Turner, Kaite Bingham, Sam Albertson, Krista Nunnally, and Charles Garcia.

The team photo for Leg 4 on one of the forward decks of the R/V Thompson. The hills outside of Victoria BC are in the background.

The students on Leg 4 gather on the bow of the R/V Thompson. From left to right - Charlie Parker, Andrew Baird, Vega Shaw, Cody Turner, Caitlin Russell, Teos Bisbee, Brendan Philip, and Colin Katagiri....oh,and to the far right is 'Mr. Chicken,' a fine member of the science party who was the only one to dive to 5000 ft beneath the oceans surface. During the VISIONS'13 program, 20 undergraduate and graduate students participatied in the sea-going experience onboard the R/V Thompson using the Canadian ROV ROPOS.

University of Washington, School of Oceanography undergraduate student - Charlie Parker- deploys an Argo float over Axial Seamount during the VISIONS'13 program. The float wil submerge to 1000 m beneath the surface, taking chemical measurements along the way, and every 5-10 days will surface and transmit these data over a satellite to shore. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington.

Charlie watches an Argo Float drift past the R/V Thompson following his deployment of it 200 m northeast of the Primary Node location for the Regional Scale Nodes program. We are especially anxious to see the results of the ISUS nitrate sensor on it as it makes measurements above Axial Seamount. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington.

A break in the overcast days brings on great sunny weather for sampling water from the CTD. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washingotn.

University of Washington undergraduate student Colin Katagiri and RSN Project Scientist Orest Kawka process fluids collected from ~ 125 off the coast of Newport Oregon at water depths from as great as 9000 ft beneath the oceans surface. Chemical and biological data collected on these samples will be used to optimize sampling strategies of sensors on cabled moorings to be installed at this site next year as part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. VISIONS '13, Leg 4 Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington.

A great learning experience regarding the impact of pressure on materials is provided by placing styrofoam cups and heads in mesh bags on the CTD and deploying them >9000 feet beneath the oceans surface. This image shows a very small head that experienced a 'free fall' event when the CTD wire parted after a prior 9000 foot planned trip to the seafloor during routine CTD operations. A wig head that has not yet made it to the seafloor is shown on the right for comparison. Oh, and Deb Kelley's head is used for scale.

I got to collect fluid samples with Colin from the Niskin bottles on the CTD for follow-on shore-based analyses. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend