This spring, Sasha Wagner, Julia Hubbard, and Veronica Nowak sailed more than 1,000 miles west of Costa Rica to the East Pacific Rise in search of evidence that hydrothermal vents are a globally important source of long-lived organic carbon in the deep ocean. Some photos below of our 5-week voyage at sea! See more at our blog: Vent-uring into the Deep.
Departing Costa Rica - From left to right: Veronica Nowak, Julia Hubbard, and Sasha Wagner.
Science party gathering in the Main Lab on the R/V Atlantis.
The submersible, Alvin, emerges from it’s hangar.
Julia gets into Alvin for her second dive to the deep sea!
Amazing views of giant mussels, tubeworms, fish, and other macrofauna from inside Alvin.
Sasha in Alvin at the bottom of the ocean!
Hydrothermal vent chimney rock recovered from Tica.
Julia carefully recovers a chimney rock from the Alvin basket once back on deck.
Julia holds a chimney rock encrusted with tubeworm shells.
