Recovered Treasure

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Alec Bogdanoff (top), student intern Anna Hadartz (center), third mate Mike Chretian (right) and WHOI engineer Ken Decoteau (bottom) return to R/V Knorr after recovering a yellow Slocum glider that had been collecting temperature and salinity profiles of the upper ocean for two months. The quartet were on the September 2012 NASA-WHOI SPURS (Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean) cruise led by WHOI scientist Ray Schmitt to study ocean salt content fluctuations and their relationship to shifts in global precipitation.(Photo courtesy of Ken Decoteau, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)