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Tim Kane and Paris Smalls set the anchor on an OBS.

Tim Kane and Paris Smalls set the anchor on an OBS.
Tim Kane and Paris Smalls set the anchor on an OBS.
Tim Kane and Paris Smalls set the anchor on an OBS.
Tim Kane and Paris Smalls set the anchor on an OBS.
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Sohn, Robert
Tim Kane and Paris Smalls set the anchor on an OBS.
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07/13/2016
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Paris Smalls (right), a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, steadies an ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS), while WHOI engineer Tim Kane sets the anchor before it is deployed into Yellowstone Lake. This was the first time scientists adapted OBSs to detect motions on the bottom of a freshwater lake. WHOI scientist Rob Sohn is leading a multiyear expedition that is using technology developed for the deep ocean to investigate the hidden fount of hydrothermal activity going on beneath the surface of Yellowstone Lake. The Hydrothermal Dynamics of Yellowstone Lake project is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 52, No. 2, pg. 60:
For the first time, HD-YLAKE scientists used ocean-bottom seismometers (OBSs) to detect motions on a lake bottom, adapting them for fresh water. MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Paris Smalls (right) steadies the OBS while WHOI engineer Tim Kane sets the anchor. Next summer the researchers will deploy a network of ten OBSs in Yellowstone Lake to try to detect hot gases percolating up through lake sediments.
Photo by Rob Sohn
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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