Sharp Eyes

Shipboard Scientific Services Group (SSSG) technician Emily Shimada (left) signals a winch operator on board the research vessel Atlantis while Rika Anderson from Carleton College keeps tension on a tag line to prevent the ship’s CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) rosette from swinging during deployment. Anderson later filtered water from the CTD to collect microbes and viruses to analyze as part of her research. (Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)