Assistant professor of earth sciences Andrew Fisher took time
before his two-month cruise this summer to pose in front of his
seafaring home: the 470-foot JOIDES Resolution, shown at
its port call in San Francisco. Fisher was cochief scientist of
an expedition to study the flow of fluids beneath the seafloor
off the Pacific Northwest. The former oil-exploration ship, with
110 scientists and crew members aboard and a derrick towering
202 feet above sea level, is the world's most advanced floating
research laboratory for scientific drilling.
Photo: Robert Irion