Photo Album
Left: Student prepares samples for processing. Many GES students take jobs working in labs in the departments of Chemistry, Oceanography, Biology, and Geology and Geophysics. Photo courtesy of Soest Pubs
Right: Preparing solar panel to run instrument panel. Students have opportunities for field work as well as lab work. Photo courtesy of Soest Pubs
Right: Taking sample of flowing lava. Photo courtesy of Soest Pubs
Right: Students take streamflow measurements. Photo by B. Tomlinson
Left: Professor Geroge Walker explaining geology in the field. Photo coutresy of SOEST Pubs
Right: Zodiac deployed for field sampling with the island of Niihau in the background. Photo by J. Liebeler
Left: Amanda Jones takes sediment samples from a mangrove community in Kaneohe Bay as part of a study on introduced species in the Hawaiian Islands. Photo by J. Liebeler
Right: R.V. Kaimikai_O_Kanaloa. This 230' research vessel has a range of 15,000 nm, carries a crew of 19 scientists, and carries a SeaBeam 210 multibeam sonar bathymetric mapping system. The K-O-K is the support ship for the Pieces V. Photo courtest of HURL.
Left: Launching the Pieces V from the K-O-K. The Hawaii Undersea Research Lab operates the Pieces V, which can descend to 2000 m. Photo by J. Liebeler
Right: Securing the Pieces V after a dive to 400 meters. Researchers use the Pieces V for studying deep water precious coral beds, Monk Seal feeding behavior, and ocean floor mapping. Photo by J. Liebeler