GeoMICROBE Sled on the seafloor 海床上的採樣雪橇

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There is our sled!! JASON team has mounted a “homer” on the sled so that they can track where the sled is. 

採樣雪橇靜靜的在海床上迎接我們的到來。

Everything looks good. The sled is not covered by the sediment.

看起來一切都很完好，而且也沒有太多的沈積物覆蓋在上面。

JASON helps to transport the sled to the CORK well head. Note the donut shape HOV/ROV plate form. That is where sled is going to sit on.  

傑森號幫我們把採樣雪橇移動到水下觀測井，井口的地方有圓形的平台，可以讓研究潛艇停泊，也是我們即將放置採樣雪橇的地方。平台看起來好像很小。

Arrive at the well head. Position the sled on the plate form. 

到達觀測井了，傑森號幫忙把採樣雪橇固定在平台上。我們的設計是恰好讓雪橇可以好好的放置在平台上。

Work on Maria S. Merian 在瑪麗安號上的工作

Sorry about the delay but we have been very busy preparing samplers. Let me show you some photos of our preparation wok during the past 10 days.

Receiving University of Hawaii equipment (收到我們的貨櫃了)

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See the big “ALOHA” sign on the container. After so many days of waiting, we have finally got our container on April 13, 2012. That was a long trip for our container from Hawaii to Freeport.
看到貨櫃上面的”ALOHA”了嗎？ALOHA是夏威夷文的歡迎、你好，真經過漫長的等待，我們終於收到我們的器材了。

We packed our container with equipment and lab ware. There is no space for people to walk in. Our super responsible and supportive port agent in Freeport, Kent Wards, had to stand on top of our equipment to help to secure items to the forklift.
我們寄了好多好多的器材，把整個貨櫃給裝滿了，船運公司在巴哈馬的承辦人，肯特先生，必須爬到我們的器材上，才能幫忙固定東西讓堆高機把器材運下來。

Lots of items to be unload. We have shipped pretty much the entire lab.
超多東西的吧！右後方的女士是巴哈馬的海關人員，她一直問我說這些都是妳的？

The most important items are our GeoMICROBE instrumented sleds. We are so happy that they are here and we get to deploy them. The two sleds are going to collect very precious crustal fluids for scientific analysis. The data will help us to understand how microbial community and fluid chemistry change with space (two study sites) and time (20-months deployment). Please note that the GeoMICROBE is build using titanium, fiber glass and plastic sheets.
從夏威夷運來最重要的器材就是我們的採樣雪橇了，這次要施放兩個採樣雪橇在兩個不同的水下觀測站，然後在未來的20個月內，每經過2 ～3個月採一次樣品，每次會有水跟顆粒的樣品。