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WHOI research specialist Heather Furey and technician Roald van der Heide from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research prepare a Slocum glider for deployment in the summer of 2015. As part of O-SNAP, an international effort to understand the circulation and fluxes of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre, researchers aboard R/V Pelagia took oceanographic samples and deployed a glider, deep sea moorings and subsurface drifters in the ocean between Scotland and Iceland. The glider’s mission is to bridge the data gap between two distant moorings in the Iceland Basin and transmit data via satellite to scientists based at WHOI, who then share it with collaborators at Ocean University of China.(Photo by Colin Griffiths, Scottish Association for Marine Science)