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Conduit Drilling

Friday, March 11, 2011

The first installation phase of the Ocean Observatories Initiative's Regional Scale Nodes officially began on February 7, 2011 ...

Conduit Drilling

Schedule

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

The RSN schedule calls for cable route survey cruises in 2010, primary infrastructure and primary nodes testing and installation in 2011-2012 ...

Schedule

Endurance Line PN-1C and 1D

Overview

Humpback Visit Video

Two humpback whales visited the TE SubCom Dependable during the OOI RSN Primary Node Installation cruise

--Video by Cecile Durand

Inferno Vent at Axial

Inferno Vent is a black smoker located in the ASHES hydrothermal field at Axial Volcano. This video provides a brief overview of one face of this vent, and then two close ups of the organisms living on the surface of this sulfide chimney. Inferno is targeted to be instrumented with several OOI-RSN core sensors measuring the temperature and chemistry of the 600°F vent fluid.

HDD Drilling, March 4

Horizontal directional drilling, March 4, at the OOI Shore Station in Pacific City, OR

Core Sampling

Core sampling as part of the Burial Assessment Survey of the Regional Scale Nodes Cable Route, May 2010, onboard the R/V Mt. Mitchell.

OCEANS '09, Biloxi: HF Radar Presentation

This talk presented the unique opportunities of integrating the existing Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) technologies with the capabilities of OOI RSN and the resulting significant enhancement to IOOS HF Radar coverage along the Oregon and Washington coastlines.

OCEANS' 09 Presentation and paper authors: Jack Harlan, P. Michael Kosro, Pete Barletto

Technical paper here.