Hurricane Hunters support transitioning U.S. Navy research program

U.S. Navy Capt. (ret.) Beth Sanabia prepares an Airborne Expendable BathyThermographs for deployment from a 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron WC-130J Super Hercules aircraft Aug. 2, 2023, over the Gulf of Mexico. Sanabia, Dr. Steve Jayne and over 40 U.S. Naval Academy and Woods Hole Oceanography Institute interns have been working with the U.S. Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters as part of the Training and Research in Oceanic and Atmospheric Processes in Tropical Cyclones, or TROPIC program to study the ocean and how it reacts with tropical weather systems. (U.S. Air Force photo by Lt. Col. Mark Withee)