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University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist Jim Holden, chief scientist of the most recent oceanographic cruise of the research vessel, Atlantis, and its submersible, Alvin. Holden supervised 23 researchers working on eight projects for the three-week expedition that ended in September. With Holden in front of Alvin are UMass Amherst doctoral student Helene ver Eecke and UMass Amherst undergraduate Dmitriy "Dima" Tokar.