161214-N-PO203-150 PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 14, 2016) Madeleine Hamann, right, and Ratnaksha Lele, graduate students at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, work in the dry lab aboard the Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research (AGOR) vessel R/V Sally Ride. Laboratory space aboard the Sally Ride can be divided into two sections, wet and dry. Operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography under a charter lease agreement with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Sally Ride has multi-beam bottom-mapping and ocean current profiling sonars, advanced meteorological sensors and satellite data transmission systems, the latest navigation and ship-positioning systems and a specially designed hull that improves sonar acoustic performance. The Navy, through ONR, has been a leader in building and providing large ships for the nation’s academic research fleet since World War II. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released)