Clockwise from top left: Santiago Herrera (far left) leads an exploration dive of the ROV Little Hercules in the deep Celebes Sea in 2010; Herrera examines a specimen of a species of colonial salps found in a New Zealnd Kelp forest in 2012; Herrera (left) and Andrea Quattrini (right) store specimens of deep sea corals collected with WHOI’s ROV Jason in 2009; and stalked barnacles from the vent fields at the Kawio Barat volcano in the Western Pacific.
Barnacles image courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010
