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| 1. The ROV Jason II and Robert Fuhrmann look on as Mount Tavurvur belches ash. The photo was taken from the deck of R/V Melville as it left Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, on a cruise to the Manus Basin for chief scientist Maurice Tivey.
(Photo by Phil Forte, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 2.
WHOI engineers Bob Brown and Tito Collasius (right) check the
fit of the yellow outer skin over the lifting eye of the Sentry autonomous underwater vehicle.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 3. Rich Camilli in the lab with Gemini, his miniature mass spectrometer.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 4. Engineer John Bailey works with the Camera Sampler (CAMPER).
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 5. The AUV Sentry is lowered into the
water for shallow tests off the WHOI dock in late 2005. The vehicle was
successfully tested in deep water in April.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 6.
WHOI scientists Brendan Foley (left) and Rich Camilli (center), along
with Greek colleague Dimitris Sakellarious (right), take a break on the deck of
R/V Aegaeo during a recent
cruise in the Aegean Sea. The team used the Greek
submersible, Thetis, and the WHOI AUV SeaBED on the Project Phaedra 2006 expedition to explore an ancient shipwreck.
(Photo by Matthew Barton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 7.
Debris from a Roman shipwreck site in the Mediterranean Sea provides
clues to marine archaeologists about ancient trade routes. The
photo-mosaic was made from dozens of images and shows a ceramic pile and building stones used for Roman temples.
(Photomosaic courtesy of Hanumant Singh, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 8.
Research engineer Matt Heintz demonstrates the manipulator arm of Nereus,
the new hybrid underwater vehicle—part autonomous robot, part remote-controlled vehicle. The arm is picking up a
"push corer" designed to take sediment samples from the ocean floor.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 9.
The Puma autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) uses sonar, lasers,
and chemical sensors to search wide areas of the ocean floor to
detect the telltale signals from hydrothermal vent plumes.
(Photo by Hanumant Singh, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 10. Researchers work on the WHOI autonomous underwater vehicle SeaBED (foreground), with the Greek submersible, Thetis, in the background. The two vehicles were used in tandem during the Project PHAEDRA 2006 collaborative research effort in the Aegean Sea.
(Photo by Matthew Barton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 11.
Mike Jakuba, a graduate of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, guided the robotic underwater vehicle Jaguar back on board the icebreaker Oden during a summer expedition to the Arctic.
(Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 12.
The hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus
was tested several times from the Woods Hole dock in 2007.
(Photo by Christopher Griner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 13.
Engineer Rod Catanach steadies the Sentry autonomous underwater vehicle as it is lowered for tests off the WHOI dock in November 2007. Sentry is a robot built for exploring the deep
ocean; it will often be used to complement Alvin by surveying large swaths of ocean floor to determine the best
spots for close-up exploration.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 14.
WHOI technician Devin Ruddick and geophysicist Rob Reves-Sohn use a Swedish flag to cover the freshly painted Puma and Jaguar AUVs before their unveiling later that night to crew members on an expedition to the Arctic's Gakkel Ridge. Ruddick added images of the namesake cats to the shells of the vehicles, along with flags
from Sweden, the U.S., Germany, and Japan, representing the homes of the scientists who took part in the expedition. Puma and Jaguar are now at sea for another expedition, this time testing the limits of vehicle-to-vehicle communications in the deep ocean.
(Photo by Christopher Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 15.
Expedition leader Will Sellers evaluates oncoming ocean swells as the crew prepares to lower the remotely operated vehicle Jason to the Pacific's Juan de Fuca Ridge. Now in its third incarnation, the Jason vehicles have been taking researchers to the seafloor (without leaving the deck of a ship) for more than 20 years.
(Photo by Lance Wills, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
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Seated inside the control van for the remotely operated vehicle Jason, pilot Scott
Hansen (background) and chief scientist Bill Chadwick (Oregon State University) work to collect samples from the hydrothermal vents along the Juan
de Fuca Ridge in the North Pacific.
(Photo by Lance Wills, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 17.
WHOI engineers Rod Catanach and Andy Billings fit the outer skin over one of the navigation
transponders on the Autonomous Benthic Explorer, or ABE. The vehicle was the first autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) adopted by the U.S.
scientific community. It is often used in tandem with the submersible Alvin or the remotely operated vehicle Jason to survey large swaths of ocean floor and determine the best spots for close-up examination.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
| 18.
Engineer Andy Bowen (in green) and Chris German, chief scientist for deep submergence, with ROV Jason during a maintenance period in Woods Hole.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
