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Jen's shoes get the royal treatment. |
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And then Jen gets the royal treatment after her Alvin
dive. |
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We decided that one or two buckets of ice wasn't enough for Jen,
so she got the 50-gallon garbage can treatment! |
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Jen tried to warm up after her major ice bath. |
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The sulfides collected on the chimney were really fragile, so
Ken gingerly withdrew the chimney.
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microbial microcosm looked really promising. Unfortunately, the
ASU scientists can't analyze it to see what grew until they get
home. The microscope they use for analysis is broken. |
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Two student experiments as they came out of the basket. The lettuce
will be examined for microscopic changes in cellular structure.
The Coke can has only two minor changes. |
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Hepsi shows off the results of Ed's Head. It didn't shrivel uniformly
around the head, so it looks a bit like an alien.
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Liz McCliment gets to work within minutes of the removal of the
microcosm. It's important to keep things sterile around the samples
and to work quickly.
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Ken Vogelsonger gets to work right away as well. When good samples
come back, everyone kicks in right away to work. There's no time
to waste. |
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Dr.
David Shin examines one of the day's samples.
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Alvinella pompejana with its tube. |
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Meet
Arnold — one of the microbial microcosms. Check out the black
smoker right behind Arnold. Pilot Blee Williams collected Arnold
today. This is the second-to-last dive, so many of the long-term
deployments were collected today. The rest will be "cleaned
up" tomorrow. |
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The
port manipulator grabbing Arnold. |
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Pilot Blee Williams collects "Fat Harold" for Dr. Taylor
and Dr. Sievert. The white material in the traps is microbial
"flocs."
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Tall
Harold gets retrieved from the diffuse water flow.
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The
Frying Pan gets collected. It was absolutely covered in precipitates.
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This
is a large non-vent sea anemone. When they first discovered it
on a previous mission, Dr. Tim Shank from Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution and pilot Blee Williams proposed the name Bleevis
shankii as its formal name, and they were the first to photograph
it, collect it, and dissect it. You never know what you're going
to find on a dive.
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Dr.
Peggy O'Day reflects on a very successful day at sea. It's worth
all the hard work getting here when you collect such good samples.
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A
lovely tropical sunset is a nice way to end the day.
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