Slide Image: A still from an animated 3-D computer-generated model of the Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network (AOSN) provides a cutaway view of Monterey Bay's coast, ocean surface and water column below. Various aircraft, ships, buoys and underwater monitoring vehicles illustrate some of the oceanographic tools used to record the water column’s temperature, composition and currents. This is a still from an animation.

Credit: David Fierstein; © 2003 MBARI