{"id":534665,"date":"2023-09-11T11:28:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/?p=534665"},"modified":"2023-09-11T11:29:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T15:29:37","slug":"leg-3-ended-successfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/leg-3-ended-successfully\/","title":{"rendered":"Leg 3 Fini!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_534666\" style=\"width: 729px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534666\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-534666 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/09\/sulis_20230905154642_Rattail_Temp_Probe-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/09\/sulis_20230905154642_Rattail_Temp_Probe-2.jpeg 719w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/09\/sulis_20230905154642_Rattail_Temp_Probe-2-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/09\/sulis_20230905154642_Rattail_Temp_Probe-2-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-534666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An impressionist-style portrait of a giant rattail obscured by the high-temperature vent fluid the Jason temperature probe is measuring at Diva vent in the International District vent field. Credit: UW\/NSF-OOI\/WHOI, Dive J2-1546, V23.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>September 4-6, 2023<\/strong>: In spite of weather delays, the objectives of Leg 3 were accomplished. Two of the Leg 3 dives took place at International District, surrounded by hydrothermal vents and chemosynthetic animal communities. The team deployed a RAS\/PPS sampler which collects fluid and DNA samples from the vents, specifically a vent known as \u201cTiny Towers\u201d. This same vent, and the cap that the RAS\/PPS samples from, is observed year-round by a digital still camera. The third instrument deployed at International District (the Hydrothermal Vent Fluid Temperature and Resistivity <strong><a class=\"glossaryLink\" href=\"https:\/\/interactiveoceans.washington.edu\/glossary\/sensor\/\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"cmtt_ad3b5ea1034dc1bc7d4303bd14f64faf\" data-gt-translate-attributes=\"[{&quot;attribute&quot;:&quot;data-cmtooltip&quot;, &quot;format&quot;:&quot;html&quot;}]\">sensor<\/a><\/strong>) samples the temperature and chemical properties of the hydrothermal vent fluid. Vent fluid is extremely acidic (low pH), and resistivity is an analogue for chlorinity, a way of measuring how salty the fluid is compared to background seawater. Lots more details including live video are available <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/interactiveoceans.washington.edu\/visions23-live-video\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 4-6, 2023: In spite of weather delays, the objectives of Leg 3 were accomplished. Two of the Leg 3 dives took place at International District, surrounded by hydrothermal vents and chemosynthetic animal communities. The team deployed a RAS\/PPS sampler which collects fluid and DNA samples from the vents, specifically a vent known as \u201cTiny&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":534666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,19],"tags":[154,228,155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534668,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534665\/revisions\/534668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}