Marine technician Gary Austin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Marine Physical Laboratory assembles a soft tether release on the Low Frequency Acoustic Seismic Experiment (LFASE) in August 1989. Researchers from Scripps and WHOI including marine geophysicist Ralph Stephen sailed on the R/V Melville that summer to deploy seismometers and other instruments that could detect Earth’s ambient “noise” with a seafloor borehole array seismic system (SEABASS). (Photo courtesy of Ralph Stephen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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