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Going Home
Thursday, September 01, 2011
After three weeks at sea, the R/V Thompson turned east yesterday for the 28-hour steam home. This cruise has been incredibly busy and as we head ...
Sept. 1, Marine Geology Cl ...
Thursday, September 01, 2011
As part of the VISIONS '11 education programs, Dr. Leslie Sautter, professor of geology at the College of Charleston, will lead ...
Exploring >40 m Tall Activ ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Today was the final ROPOS dive of the series, ending with an exciting dive in the new hydrothermal field discovered at the beginning of Leg 2. ...
New Snowblowers, Huge Lava ...
Monday, August 29, 2011
Yesterday and into the early afternoon was a long “day” with a lot of seafloor covered by the ROV in the caldera of Axial Seamount. ...
Exploring Khione's Snowblo ...
Sunday, August 28, 2011
ROPOS was in the water by mid afternoon for the start of Dive 1472 – a long one anticipated to run for the next 20-24 hrs! ...
Back into the ASHES Hydrot ...
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Today was a busy day with the termination of a very long dive that started last night and ended in the afternoon. ...
Exploring the Internationa ...
Friday, August 26, 2011
Cable route and ASHES: Following another cable route survey across the caldera of Axial Seamount this morning, the rest of the d ...
Dive 1469 - Cable Routes A ...
Thursday, August 25, 2011
The day started early with the first live-streaming class as part of the VAST (Visions at-Sea Telepresence) program led by Dr. Leslie Sautter ...
Diving at the ASHES Hydrot ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
It is 1815 (6:15 pm) Pacific Time and we are about to go into the water with the robotic vehicle ROPOS again to dive in the ASHES hydrothermal field ...
Finding the New Lava Flow
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Node Placement: Today we dove on the eastern outer wall of the Axial caldera to completely characterize the site where L3-Maripro will ...
Surveying The Slopes of Ax ...
Monday, August 22, 2011
Since last night we have been imaging the armoured fiber-optic cable that was installed ~3 weeks ago up one of the flanks of Axial Seamount. ...
Slocum Electric Glider Dep ...
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Contributed by Tina Haskins, Rutgers University Today marked the beginning of a new collaboration between Rutgers University ...
Past and Future
Friday, August 19, 2011
As we transit towards Axial Volcano with the gift of some quiet preparation time, it is good to reflect on our accomplishments during Leg 1 ...
Photo Mosaics of the Seafl ...
Thursday, August 18, 2011
To optimize the ROV for a down-looking photo survey, the ROPOS crew spent about 10 hours overnight reconfiguring cameras, lights, and ca ...
Impressions from Dean Grau ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
It’s a balmy evening on the R/V Thompson as the full moon rises over a glassy Pacific. Several people join me on the back deck to ...
Zooplankton Viruses
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Kendra Daly, an OOI-RSN Senior project Scientist, is onboard conducting plankton net tows to obtain samples for her ongoing study... ...
Engineering tests and bubb ...
Monday, August 15, 2011
Today was a full day beginning an early morning ROPOS dive for the second round of engineering tests of L3-MariPro’s OOI primary node, an E ...
First ROV dive at Southern ...
Sunday, August 14, 2011
We arrived on station at Southern Hydrate Ridge at 1400h today and began an EM302 multibeam survey across Northern and Southern Hydrate Ridge. ...
Seismometer recovery and f ...
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Most of today was spent in transit from the primary node test site to a site off Gray’s Harbor, WA to recover a NSF Cascadia Array Initiati ...
BIA and SIA testing off Sm ...
Friday, August 12, 2011
After leaving the Esquimalt Graving Dock in Victoria with ROPOS aboard at midnight, we transited to an area just off of Smith Island, WA to condu ...
Loading ROPOS in Victoria
Thursday, August 11, 2011
The R/V Thompson left the University of Washington dock early this morning for Victoria, Canada to load the ROV ROPOS and its crew membe ...
Testing the OOI Primary No ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Deployment and recovery tests of an OOI primary node are among the major activities scheduled during Leg 1 of the VISIONS '11 cruise. ...
Two Ships at Sea
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
There will soon be two ships at sea conducting work related to the regional cabled network component of the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative. ...
Loading the Ship
Monday, August 08, 2011
The VISIONS '11 science crew is working hard to be ready to load the ship when it arrives at the UW dock on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 9. ...
