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Preserving the Future of Research

Summer Student Fellow Skylar Bayer (Brown University) holds a jar of juvenile crabs collected from the deep ocean floor along the East Pacific Rise. Working in the laboratory of WHOI biologist Lauren Mullineaux in the summer of 2007, Bayer participated in studies of how organisms colonize deep-sea hydrothermal vents after disturbances such as the catastrophic eruption on the EPR in 2006. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)