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is a picture of the experiment with the yeast, which was submitted
by Charter School of Wilmington, in Wilmington, Delaware. This shows
the control packet that came up from the dive with imprints of the
yeast pieces on the plastic. You can see this on the upper left-hand
corner of the packet underneath the word "control" written in black. |
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Here you can see the activated yeast after it has started to ferment.
For a complete description of the experiment, please check under
the Extreme
Experiments section of the Web site. |
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Next to a ruler (for scale) is a tube from a baby Riftia. The
next group of pictures you are about to see is from a dissection
of a Riftia that had a total length of 1.3 meters. |
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Here the Riftia is partially out of the tube on the dissection
table in the lab next to a meter stick for scale. |
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A closer view of the animal. The red portion on top consits of two
parts. The top part is the plume, or gills. The thicker red part
below that is the vestimentum. The white part is the tube. |
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A shot of the animal completely removed from the tube. |
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The dissection audience: from left to right, Julie Robidart, Stefan
Sievert, Sandy (one of the crew), and Tony (one of the Alvin
pilots). |
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Julie is taking blood from the closed circulatory system of the
Riftia. Kevin is helping. |
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It's 2020, and they are still hard at work and the crowd is still
gathered. This stuff is cool!!! |
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Kevin and Julie proudly display the Riftia tube. They have
spent a LONG time working on this dissection. As displayed by Kevin's
shirt, it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. |
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