Work on R/V Atlantis 亞特蘭提司號上的工作照片

We are already more than half-way through the expedition. What are our UH gangs doing out there? Here are some photos to show you. 

航次已經 過了超過一半了，大家在船上都在幹嘛呢？咱們來瞧瞧吧！

Grieg was being interviewed. In the background is our modified Geomicrobe Sled.
來自夏威夷大學的格利克老師正在被訪問，背景中的是我們的迷你型採樣雪橇。

Grieg was so enthusiastic about his virus work.
談到他研究的題目"病毒"，格力克老師好興奮啊！

Oliver was working on setting up Mobile pump system (MPS) on JASON's front basket.

謝志強大人正在把我們的超強採水系統架設到傑森號的前方菜籃中。 

Our longtime collaborator, Dr. Eric Oslon from University of Washington, was showing Oliver and Jannai how to use a a pre-evacuated glass flask to subsample basement fluids.
來自西雅圖華盛頓大學的奧思洛博士正在教志強還有佳奈使用特殊的玻璃瓶子分裝樣品，這個特殊的容器是抽真空的，以防大氣中的空氣污染了我們的底液樣品。

Eric showing Jannai how to prepare a gastight sampler.
奧思洛博士示範如何準備氣密採水器。

Abandon ship drill. Gummy suit.
棄船演習。超保暖救生衣。

Everett was getting gastights ready on the JASON's side basket.
唉煩特正在把氣密採水器放到傑森號的側邊菜籃子中。

Sean was getting his filtration gears ready.
蕭恩正在準備他的過濾系統。 

I really don't know what Bob was doing~~
ㄟ...巴博先生，我真不知道你在幹嘛啊！

Oliver was subsampling basement fluids into various kind of vials for different kinds of analysis.  To maintain cleanness, all the subsampling takes place inside a laminar flow hood. The high efficiency air filter can filter more than 99.999% particles.
志強正在幫我採樣，確保樣品不被船上空氣中的顆粒汙染，我們把整台無塵器帶到船上了。無塵器的過濾系統可以把空氣中大多數的顆粒隔離在外喔。 

Recovering the GeoMicrobe Sled 收回採樣雪橇

After sitting on the CORK head for two years, the GeoMicrobe Sled is finally getting closer to its way back to ship. The recovery of this sled turn out to be very challenging. During the first dive, we found out that our floatation packages were missing. We need the floats to bring the sled back. Our sled is still too heavy even if we attach all other smaller floats available on the ship. We decide to use remote operated vehicle Medea (http://www.whoi.edu/ndsfVehicles/Jason/) to help us pull the sled back. That isn't an easy task. We need to find a good/secured way to connect to Medea to the GeoMicrobe Sled. The scientists and the JASON team decided to use a strong rope with a shackle at the end to attach sled to the Medea. Can you imaging using two pairs of chopsticks to tight a shackle? That is exactly what the JASON pilots need to do with JASON's two manipulators. The pilot was so skillful and our sled was successfully attached to Medea and it's on it's way back right now~~ 

我們的採樣雪橇孤零零的在水下觀測井的平台等待我們迎接它回來，一等就是兩年，這之間不知道發生什麼事，原本掛在採樣雪橇上的浮球組，整個不見了，沒有浮球，我們就沒有足夠的浮力把雪橇帶回來。而且採樣雪橇太重了，即使把船上現有的全部浮球裝上去，都還不夠，因此我們希望利用遠端遙控潛水艇米迪雅(Medea http://www.whoi.edu/ndsfVehicles/Jason/) 幫我們把雪橇拉回船上。說起來簡單，但是光要把採樣雪橇跟米迪雅連在一起，就是個大工程了，科學家們跟潛水艇機長們決定用一條很強壯的繩子，用傑森號的機械手臂，利用英文叫做shackle的掛鉤，串到採樣雪橇上，想想傑森號的船長跟發號施令的科學家都在船上，而傑森號跟採樣雪橇都遠在2600米深的海床上，就像是要我們用兩雙筷子鎖螺絲釘，並不是簡單的任務，但大家協力辦到了，採樣雪橇正在返回船上中，好令人期待啊！

GeoMicrobe Sled in sight. There is no floatation attached.
採樣雪橇靜靜的在等我們，上面沒有浮球了。

The hook like tool is called shackle.
左上的螢幕中間的白色鉤鉤就是英文的shackle。

JASON's left hand is a shackle. Right hand is a bolt that can close the shackle hooked to the sled.
傑森號右手的是可以串過shackle的螺絲。 

Hooking the shackle to the GeoMicrobe Sled.
試著把shackle串進採樣雪橇的掛鉤中。 

Shackle is in position. Tightening. Better seen in the left bottom panel.
串好了，得把螺絲旋緊來。左下角的圖片可以很明顯地看到螺絲旋進shackel中。

Jason back off from the GeoMicrobe Sled. Trying to see if Medea can lift the GeoMicrobe Sled up.
傑森號往後退，看看米迪雅是否可以把採樣雪橇拉起來。 

GeoMicrobe Sled is up!!
採樣雪橇被拉離水下觀測井的平台了。






(two hours later)
(兩小時候）

Pulling Medea off the water.
把米迪雅拉出水面。

Ｍedea is on deck.
米迪雅到船上了。

JASON is off the water.
傑森號拉出水面。

GeoMicrobe Sled off the water. 

採樣雪橇～～你終於回來了！！

After TWO years of waiting. Sled is back on deck!!

等了兩年，好期待分析樣品後得到的數據！！

Sampling for gas content analysis

Follow the team on live streaming 海上研究現場直播

After a whole year of waiting, we finally have the chance to back to our Juan de Fuca Ridge Flank study site to retrieve our GeoMicrobe Sled back. This year, the research vessel Atlantis is upgraded to broad band live streaming. http://explorationnow.org/atlantis/ You will be able to see us working in the main science lab, on the deck and seafloor operation of remote operated vehicle JASON.

經過一整年漫長的等待，我們終於得到機會可以回到研究區域把我們的採樣雪橇領回來了，而且今天使用的研究船還有即時線上直播， 大家可以點到下面的連結觀看喔。
http://explorationnow.org/atlantis/