Atlantis, seen from Rapa Nui 12/21
exploring Rapa Nui, 12/21
Launches to Rapa Nui, 12/21
Leaving Atlantis 🙁 12/21
Last rock core is prepped, mid-night shift, 12/18
Tony vs. MC, 12/18
TR and Vera deploy the maggie for the last time, 12/18
Vaibhav and TR wave goodbye to our beacon for a last time, mid-night shift, 12/18
Chaz vs. MC, 12/17
Brian's first victory, 12/15
MC's victory, 12/16
Tony's victory, 12/17
It's Christmas in the computer lab thanks to all of Allison's efforts, as Vaibhav drives the winch at 0100. 12/13
Cate winching- it's almost christmas! 12/17
Ship video footage of MC + the Midnight Marauders being hit by a squid while glass coring, 12/2
Sentry deployment, 12/09
part of the stairstep wall on Jyun-Nai & Anna's dive, 12/11
from Jyun-Nai & Anna's dive, 12/11
pre-launch, Jyun-Nai & Anna's Alvin dive to the fault scarp, 12/11
pre-launch, Jyun-Nai & Anna's Alvin dive to the fault scarp, 12/11
Jyun-nai, Mike, MC, 12/11
Janine, Julie, Vaibhav, Darin, 12/11
Terra's post-dive haircut by their Alvin pilot Kaitlyn, 12/05
Alvin & Terra, 12/05
Friar stage of Terra's post-dive haircut by their Alvin pilot Kaitlyn, 12/05
Terra's post-dive haircut by their Alvin pilot Kaitlyn, 12/05
Anna driving the winch for another rock core smash
Julie, Terra, Darin, rock core #22, 12/02
Rock core deployment; Vera, Jeff, Allison, Anna
Meg, Mike, rock core processing
Cate, Anna
Alvin recovery
Vaibhav, Rick, Darin, 12/3
Darin returning from his dive, 12/3
Jeff, Kolton
Janine processing rock core samples
Darin and Janine locked in to Alvin rocks analyses, 12/6
Sampling, Julie and Jess' dive, 12/4
Terra, Jeff, and Kaitlyn on their way, 12/5
Sampling, Julie and Jess' dive, 12/4
Pillow basalts (+ an anemone) as seen from Alvin cameras on Darin and Vaibhav's dive on 12/3
Tripod fish, as seen from Julie and Jess' dive, 12/4
Sampling, Julie and Jess' dive, 12/4
'Life finds a way'; from Julie and Jess' dive, 12/4
Crinoid spotted (!!!!!!!) on Julie and Jess' dive, 12/4
Vaibhav + Alvin, 12/3
Vaibhav post-dive, 12/3
Sampling photo from Darin & Vaibhav's dive, 12/3
Sampling photo from Janine's dive, 11/24
Pilot whales spotted off the bow! 12/3
Terra and Jeff pre-dive! 12/5
Alvin on its way, 12/4
Julie and Jess pre-dive, 12/4
Sentry on its way, 12/3
Sentry is deployed, 12/3
Sentry is deployed, 12/3
Darin gives a post-dive debrief, 12/3
Sub spotted upon return to surface, 12/3
Darin and Vaibhav before entering the sphere, 12/3
Alvin launch, 12/3
Glass coring!
Wax cores at sunset, 12/2
Wax cores at sunset, 12/2
Squid fly on deck 12/2 (Meg + Squilliam)
Squid fly on deck 12/2 (MC)
More squid on deck 12/2
More squid on deck 12/2
Bridge visits 12/1
Rock core deployment as seen from the bridge 12/2
Window into the main lab (+Jeff) (12/2)
Terra & the FIXED spinner mag! (12/2)
Evening 11/30
Sunset on shift, 11/30
The tree is up! 11/28
Thanksgiving prep! 11/25
Thanksgiving prep!
Sunset (Vaibhav)
Assessing spinner magnetometer damage
Darren and Janine
Broken spinner mag 🙁
chocolate chip cookies, 11/25
Glass core samples! 11/25
Rock core work, sometime mid-night shift, 11/24-25.
Glass core begins descent, evening 11/24
Prepping the first rock corer, 11/24.
First two Alvin rocks of the cruise- thanks Janine / Nick / Kaitlyn! 11/24.
First Alvin dive launch! 11/24. (Divers: Janine, Nick, Kaitlyn)
Art project "before" picture- stay tuned for "after"! 1 day until our first Alvin dive. 11/23, photo credits to Vaibhav
vera vs. mike, 11/22
a southern hemisphere sunset, 11/21
a southern hemisphere sunset, 11/21
a southern hemisphere sunset, meg & cate, 11/21
Terra deploys the XBT (Nov 19)
More Maggie! (Nov 19) As of Nov 21, we have no more ARGO deployments on our transit south, so the magnetometer will stay in the water until we reach our first site.
MC prepares dividers for the crates that will accompany us to the seafloor on the platform of Alvin to store collected seafloor samples. (Nov 18)
We had Alvin briefings today on the basics of what to expect during our days in the sphere! (Nov 18)
Terra and Maggie! (Nov 17)
Cate gets our first ARGO float into the water! (Nov 17)
Deploying our first ARGO float! (Nov 17)
Brian showed us around the engine room! (Nov 16)
Cate and TR recovering the magnetometer! (Nov 15)
Cate recovers the magnetometer! Photo credits to Terra (Nov 15)
Deploying the magnetometer for a test run! Mike counts the meter marks. Photo credits to Vaibhav (Nov 14)
Headed to refuel before we depart (Nov 13)
Gravity measurements at the dock (Nov 12)
Day 0: Loading Atlantis at the Scripps Marine Facility! (Nov 12)