Riah Buchanan is a PhD student at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS). Her research focuses on the visual aspects of data collection in hybrid human/animal/machine networks in wilderness areas. She is interested in the visual representation of data and creating methods of display for large sets of moving images (such as those collected at Axial Seamount) for both scientific and artistic purposes. This will be her first visit to the wilderness of the deep sea.