Slide title: RAPID – US-Japanese Collaboration

Slide images: (clockwise from top left) photo of R/V Ka'imikai-O-Kanaloa, the first non-Japanese research vessel to research the ocean after the 2011 earthquake in Japan; map of the Kuroshio Current off Japan; photo of marine chemist Ken Buesseler inspecting a water-sampling rosette; photo of Jun Nishikawa (University of Tokyo) and Hannes Baumann (SUNY Stony Brook) retrieving a net at the stern of the R/V Ka'imikai-O-Kanaloa in June 2011 off the northeast coast of Japan

Image credits: (top left) Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory/ University of Hawaii, SOEST; (top right) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI); (bottom) Ken Kostel, WHOI