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Martha James, a UW oceanography student, samples fluids from the CTD.

Small back smoker spigots on the summit of the black smoker structure called El Guapo in the International District hydrothermal field. which in 2011 was venting 350°C boiling fluids prior to the seafloor eruption in April 2011. Abundant sulfide worms colonize the young sulfide deposits. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V11.

Tina Haskins, Rutgers

Members of the OOI team - Mike Mulvihill, Skip Denny, Pete Barletto, Sue Banahan, and Giora Proskurowski - enjoy the transit through the Ballard Bridge towards the locks. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Injecting a gas sample into the gas chromatograph to analyze the concentration of methane. (photo by Allison Fundis)

The bottom interface assembly as it is lowered off the Thompson's A-frame. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Spider crabs are very sensitive to vibrations. This one, at 5000 feet beneath the ocean's surface at Axial Seamount investigated a monkey fist on a piece of equipment on the Canadian ROV ROPOS.

Moonrise over Whidbey Island, Washington. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Reuben Mills, ROPOS

The high power and high bandwidth fiber optic cable laid up the slope of Axial Seamount.

Overlapping pillow flows are enclosed by islands of sediment along the flanks of Axial Seamount. Credit: NSF-OOI/CSSF; V11.

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The R/V Thompson Captain, John Wilson, with his tuna. Captain:1 Pete:0 (photo by Allison Fundis)

2011 Bathymetry of Axial Seamount Caldera (first draft), using the R/V Thompson's EM302. Data were processed by UW undergraduate student Brendan Philip using CARIS HIPS and SIPS software.

As the R/V Thompson neared the Esquimalt Graving Dock in Victoria, Canada, a pilot came aboard to steer the ship in. The ship transitted from Seattle to Victoria on August 11 to load the ROV ROPOS and its crew. (photo by Allison Fundis)

A gravity core sample collected during the ENLIGHTEN'10 expedition.

Scientists deploy a plankton net off of Shilshole in Seattle during the transit north on August 11. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Audrey Djunaedi, UW

The Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility's ROV ROPOS. (photo by Allison Fundis)

The Thompson fully loaded after picking up the ROV ROPOS on August 11. (photo by Allison Fundis)

A Flathead Sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus) hovers in the caldera at Axial Seamount at a water depth of nearly 5000 feet beneath the ocean's surface. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; ROPOS Dive R1470; V11.

This Flapjack Octopus floated gently above the seafloor for several minutes as we watched it through the eyes of the ROV ROPOS. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/CSSF, V11.

Roughtail skate sitting on basalt cobbles and sediment at Axial Seamount

This Roughtail skate was photographed by the ROV ROPOS at 1756 m (5761 feet) beneath the ocean's surface on the flank of Axial Seamount. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; ROPOS Dive R1466; V11.

Alexandra Powell, UW

tubeworms from ENLIGHTEN '10

This Flapjack Octopus was imaged by the Canadian robotic vehicle ROPOS at a water depth of 5728 feet on Axial Seamount. Photo credit: OOI-NSF/UW/CSSF, V11

A Dumbo Octopus spotted during ROV ROPOS dive R1465. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/CSSF, ROPOS Dive R1465, V13.

The Thompson with ROPOS in the water diving at Southern Hydrate Ridge. (photo by Allison Fundis)

UW-APL engineer James Tilley and U of Western Ontario student Alexandra Powell help piece together Cody Youngbull's sensorbots for deployment. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Lisa Graumlich, Dean of UW's College of the Environment, and Debbie Kelley, Co-Chief Scientist, enjoy the view during the transit through Ballard, Seattle. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Rutgers University's Slocum glider

Sunset during the transit from Newport, OR to Axial Seamount. (photo by Martha James)

The R/V Thompson at the Esquimalt Graving Dock in Victoria, Canada on August 11th. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Colin Wilson, ROPOS

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The OOI Regional Scale Nodes cabled observatory is currently under construction. Nodes with arrays of instruments will be placed at Axial Seamount and Hydrate Ridge. Future node sites are also indicated.

Most of the Leg 1 science party. (photo by Allison Fundis)

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Vincent Auger, ROPOS

This full-sized Junction Box frame was successfully deployed and recovered in the International District Hydrothermal Field at Axial Seamount using the ROV ROPOS during the August 2011 VISIONS '11 expedition. During the VISIONS'13 cruise two fully built out medium-power J-Boxes will be deployed here that will provide power and communications to extension cables and sensors deployed at the vent sites. The sensors will include a digital still camera, mass spectrometer, fluid and DNA samplers, bottom pressure and tilt sensor, a temperature-chlorinity probe to measure boiling fluids exiting the vents, and a short-period seismometer.

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The Canadian ROV ROPOS and crew await the arrival of the Thompson at the Esquimalt Graving Dock in Victoria, Canada. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Likhi Ondov, a student on the Enlighten'10 expedition, collects water samples from a Niskin bottle on the CTD rosette.

Sulfide blocks the size of small cars at the base of the > 40 m tall sulfide edifice provide hints of active hydrothermal sites above.

Chief Scientist, John Delaney, looks out over the morning fog just off of Whidbey Island, WA. (photo by Allison Fundis)

The ROV ROPOS operations manager, Keith Sheperd, directs the lowering of ROPOS to couple with the science interface assembly. (Photo by Allison Fundis)

Keith Shepherd oversees the coupling of the ROV ROPOS to the science interface assembly. (Photo by Allison Fundis)

Adrian Rembold, UW

The bottom interface assembly (BIA) is lowered off the A-frame. After the BIA reached the seafloor, the science interface assembly (SIA) was coupled to ROPOS and manuevered into the BIA. (photo by Allison Fundis)

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The transit south out of the Staight of Juan de Fuca was unusually, but luckily, very calm. (photo by Mitch Elend)

OOI-RSN project scientist, Giora Proskurowsi, shows UW undergraduate student, Cody Turner, how to prepare standards for the gas chromatograph (GC). (photo by Allison Fundis)

UW-APL systems engineer, Dana Manalang, interrogates the ocean bottom seismometer from the deck of the Thompson. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Dustin Anctil, UW

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Pete Barletto, OOI-RSN Director and Chief Operating Officer, enjoys the afternoon fishing. (photo by Allison Fundis)

View as we leave the NOAA pier in Oregon.

Matthew Knight, UW

Moonrise on August 14. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Josh Chernoy, ROPOS

Lisa Graumlich Dean, UW College of the Environment

Jake Maltby, APL-UW

Shahpour Ashaari, OOI Operations and Maintenance Manager

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We have had quite a few sharks and mola mola visit the ship since we have been out at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Credit: Allison Fundis, University of Washington, V11.

The ROV ROPOS controls set up in a lab aboard the R/V Thompson. The ROV pilot, co-pilot, and a scientist sit in front of these monitors and controls during the dive. A ROPOS navigator and a team of scientists are also in the room logging and aiding in dive plans. (photo by Debbie Kelley)

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Sue Banahan, The Consortium for Ocean Leadership

Lexi Brewer, UW

Dean of UW's College of the Environment, Lisa Graumlich. (photo by Allison Fundis)

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The UW-Applied Physics Laboratory's secondary node test frame after it was recovered from being deployed at Hydrate since last summer. (photo by Allison Fundis)

sunset off the Thompson's fantail. (photo by Allison Fundis)

The UW Applied Physics Laboratory frame was deployed at Southern Hydrate Ridge for a year to test the weathering of an epoxy coating on the frame.

Kendra Daly, OOI-RSN senior project scientist, and Chris Holm, OSU field engineer, look at plankton collected from a net tow under a microscope. (phot by Allison Fundis)

Vincent Auger of the ROPOS crew secures the USBL (ultra-short baseline) pole. USBL is one of the compenents of the ROPOS navigation system that is used to determine precisely where on the seafloor the vehicle is. (photo by Mitch Elend)

Members of the science party prepare the gravity core for deployment the night of Aug 16th. The gravity core results will be used to ensure that the sediment thickness is deep enough to bury cable up the summit of Southern Hydrate Ridge.

OOI Primary Node frame loaded on the fantail of the R/V Thompson at the UW dock in Seattle being readied for some initial deployment testing. --Photo by Nancy Penrose, OOI Communications Coordinator at the University of Washington

OOI Primary Node frame being lifted up from the fantail of the Thompson. --Photo by Nancy Penrose, OOI Communications Coordinator at the University of Washington

The ROV ROPOS with the digital still camera and lights repositioned to optimize the vehicle for a down-looking still image survey. Images obtained during this survey will be stitched together to form a photomosaic which will give scientists on board a visual map of an extensive portion of Southern Hydrate Ridge.

The Thompson departed Seattle early morning on August 11th for a transit to Victoria, Canada to load the ROV ROPOS. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Zooplankton collected from a plankton net tow and imaged under Kendra Daly's microscope. (photo by Kendra Daly)

The Freemont drawbridge opens for the VISIONS'11 cruise as it begins the transit north. photo by Allison Fundis

The Thompson's fantail loaded with the ROV ROPOS and science gear that will be deployed during the cruise. (photo by Allison Fundis)

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Newcomers on the ship attended a safety meeting before the transit to Axial Seamount began. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Chris Holm, OOI-CGSN Field Engineer, assists with the recovery of a NSF Cascadia Array Initiative seismometer. (photo by Allison Fundis)

The ROV ROPOS coupled to the Science Interface Assembly as it is being lowered into the water. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Lineated sheet flows form when molten lava flows out from underneath the edge of a solidified crust. The lineations are a result of the crust scraping against the surface of the moving molten lava.

Hackly sheet flows form when the solidifying surface of the fast moving lava experiences so much deformation that the solidified surface begins to break apart and piles up on itself. The edges are very rough and sharp.

$Pillow lavas (also called pillow basalts) result from the quenching - or very rapid cooling and crystallization - of the outer portion of a small extrusion of lava. Continued extrusion breaks through one pillow and forms a new adjacent pillow. Striations may occur from the lava being scraped by the rough edges at the point of fracture and extrusion.$

Pillow lavas (also called pillow basalts) result from the quenching - or very rapid cooling and crystallization - of the outer portion of a small extrusion of lava. Continued extrusion breaks through one pillow and forms a new adjacent pillow. Striations may occur from the lava being scraped by the rough edges at the point of fracture and extrusion.

Alden Denny reads a limerick during Bosun's poetry night. Lexi Brewer, Debbie Kelley, and Kendra Daly listen. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Josh Chernoy and Vincent Auger of the ROPOS crew secure the USBL pole that is used to navigate the ROV. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Skip Denny and Dana Manalang log events during their 4 hour watch in the ROPOS control room. Mitch Elend and Monica Riess (back) work to stich together images into a photomosaic as they come in from the digital still camera mounted on the ROV. (photo by Allison Fundis)

A little down time in the sun during a fantail BBQ. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Jim (the Thompson's lead engineer), Allison Fundis, and Alden Denny enjoy a little down time. (photo by Captain John Wilson)

Sue Banahan reads a Pablo Neruda poem during Bosun's poetry night.

Chris Holm plays an Eddie Vedder song during Bosun's poetry night. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Mike Harrington reads Billy Collins during Bosun's poetry night. (photo by Allison Fundis)

John reads Hughes during Bosun's poetry night. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Thompson crew member, Dana Africa, and Dean Lisa Graumlich knit while they listen during Bosun's poetry night. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Chuck McGuire plays a few tunes during Bosun's poetry night. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Captain John Wilson reads a poem at Bosun's poetry night. (Photo by Allison Fundis)

ASU faculty member Cody Youngbull shows one of his sensorbots that he will be deploying at Axial Seamount. (photo by Allison Fundis)

One of the many sensorbots that Cody Youngbull will deploy at Axial Seamount. (photo by Allison Fundis)

August 19th marked the port stop between Leg 1 and 2 of VISIONS'11. The Thompson was docked at the new NOAA pier for a few hours in the afternoon while there was a partial personnel change. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Jonathan Lee, ROPOS

ROPOS is launched with the BIA recovery frame attached to the undercarriage. The hinged floats in the foreground are clamped around ROPOS's tether to absorb any shock that travels down the tether from wave motion on the surface. (photo by Allison Fundis)

The backbone interface assembly on the seafloor at Hydrate Ridge during the L3 engineering tests.

Lisa Graumlich, Dean of UW's College of the Environment, and Debbie Kelley, Co-Chief Scientist, with the R/V Thompson. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Mitch Elend works to stitch images of the seafloor at Southern Hydrate Ridge together into a photo mosaic in real time. OOI scientists will use the final mosaic to plan the instrument layout for the cabled observatory component of the OOI. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Debbie Kelley, John Kelley, and Alden Denny look over newly acquired EM302 data. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Monitoring the CTD data as the CTD is lowered almost 800 m down in the water column August 14. From left to right: Alden Denny (UW graduate student), Lexi Brewer and Cody Turner (UW undergraduate students), and Orest Kawka and Kendra Daly (OOI-RSN project scientists). (photo by Ed McNichol)

ROPOS descends for dive 1547 to recover a NSF Cascadia Array Initiative's ocean bottom seismometer off of Gray's Harbor, WA. (photo by Mitch Elend)

The R/V Thompson Captain, John Wilson (left), directs members of the ship's crew as they lower and secure the SIA back on deck after the BIA and SIA tests with ROPOS. (photo by Allison Fundis)

Cody Turner, a UW undergraduate student, and Orest Kawka, OOI-RSN project scientist, deploy the CTD at Southern Hydrate Ridge August 14.

Rutger's Slocum glider was deployed August 21st to begin surveying the perimeter of Axial Seamount's caldera to a depth of 1000 meters. (photo by Allison Fundis)

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Embarking on the R/V Thompson

Martha, Dustin, Brendan, Matt, and Kathy

Tina Haskins of Rutgers University prepares to deploy the Slocum Glider that will survey the perimeter of Axial Seamount for the duration of Leg 2. (photo by Allison Fundis)

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The dive route for the Slocum Glider at Axial Seamount.

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Into the Mist

To highlight the impacts of pressure and for relaxing downtime, it is a common tradition on ROV cruises to color styrofoam heads and cups and take them down to the seafloor. Styrofoam cups come up about 1 inch tall. This head has not yet been "shrunk" but will go down in a few days.

The ROV ROPOS during its launch for dive #1471 on August 27th.

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A small pillar marked by bathtub rings is encased by broken slabs of the sheet flow that erupted in April 2011.

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A lava whorl in the surface of a sheet flow within the caldera of Axial Seamount.

Glass- covered lobate flow near edge of one of the eruptive sites.

This bathymetric map of ASHES Hydrothermal Field shows the location of many of the black smoker chimneys that dot this site. The chimney Inferno rises 4 m (~ 12 feet) above the surrounding seafloor and is ~ 11 meters from its neighbor called Mushroom. Colleagues from NOAA-PMEL have worked at this site for two decades, monitoring changes in the chimneys and fluid chemistry.