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Dan Fornari and his dog, Riley.

Dan Fornari and his dog, Riley.
Dan Fornari and his dog, Riley.
Dan Fornari and his dog, Riley.
Dan Fornari and his dog, Riley.
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Kleindinst, Thomas N.
Dan Fornari and his dog, Riley.
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05/06/2004
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 42, No. 2, Pg. 24:
Dan Fornari (left) became Director of the Deep Ocean Exploration Institute at WHOI in 2004. He is internationally recognized for his research on volcanic and hydrothermal processes and mapping at mid-ocean ridges, and on the structure and magmatic processes at oceanic transforms and oceanic islands, such as Hawaii and the Galápagos. Over 35 years, he has participated in 55 research cruises in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, and has completed more than 100 dives in Alvin and other Navy submersibles. In 1993, he became the first Chief Scientist for Deep Submergence at WHOI, and helped usher in a new era in deep-submergence technology using Alvin with the ROV Jason 2 and high resolution sidescan sonar systems. Fornari has served on numerous scientific panels, and national and international committees, including the President’s Commission on Ocean Exploration in 2003. Together, he and Susan Humphris developed Dive and Discover, an education and outreach Web site (www.divediscover.whoi.edu) that brings the excitement of oceanographic science to thousands of students each day. He is ably assisted most days by his personal assistant, Riley (right).
Photo by Tom Kleindinst
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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