NASA tasked
Peter Girguis and colleagues at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to develop the ultimate deep-ocean observatory, ABISS (Autonomous Biogeochemical Instrument for In Situ Studies). ABISS launched in August 2017 and will be controlled wirelessly for the next two years from the ship
E/V Nautilus. Girguis and his colleagues' findings will help NASA in their quest to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa, which may have the necessary ingredients for life.
Story and video of ABISS deployment in Scientific American,
The Harvard Gazette
