PHOTOGRAPHS

R/V Farnella’s Chief Officer’s log book and barometric pressure printout, showing Tropical storm Danny in 1985. (Photo Credit: Dann Blackwood, Woods Hole Field Center)

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Puerto Rico Coastline: looking northeast from atop the Punta Tuna lighthouse

The beach: looking west along a beach west of San Juan

Cliff panorama: looking north from a mountain in east central Puerto Rico

The research vessel Farnella entering the harbor at San Juan, Puerto Rico

Grab sampler: used for collecting surficial sediment samples

Aboard the Jean A: two scientists retrieve a sediment grab sampler from the stern

A rainbow over eastern Puerto Rico, taken from the R/V Jean A

Panorama: looking north across rain forest vegetation in the El Yunque area

Yabucoa: palm trees, one fallen, line an eroding beach at Yabucoa on the east coast

R/V Jean A at the dock at Yabucoa in eastern Puerto Rico

R/V Jean A: life ring on the bulkhead of the R/V Jean A.

The R/V Jean A approaches the dock.

A 3.5 KHz echo-sounder towfish is retrieved at the end of a cruise

A 3.5 KHz echo-sounder towfish is retrieved at the end of a cruise

Sunset: a spectacular tropical sunset over Puerto Rico, taken from the R/V Jean A

Shells: a helmet conch shell (left) and a queen conch shell rest on a ship’s hawser

An airgun sound source for seismic reflection profiling boils the water at sunset

Lightning strikes: Lightning illuminates clouds near El Yunque

Hurricane Hugo on the morning of September 18, 1989

Space Shuttle Photograph of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico coastline in October, 1984.

R/V Farnella’s Chief Officer’s log book and barometric pressure printout

Puerto Rico's North Shore, just west of San Juan

Puerto Rico's North Coast during a hurricane

Hurricane winds drive a 10-foot 2X4 through a palm tree

El Moro - the entrance to San Juan Harbor, 1975

Testing the GLORIA launching system

A rainbow over San Juan in the aftermath of a storm.

Another view of the Puerto Rico coastline in October, 1984.

Waves: are breaking on eolianite ridges, lithified remnants of a Pleistocene beach.

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