Live video transmitted during VISIONS ’14 brings fabulous imagery of exotic life forms at Axial Seamount and Hydrate Ridge to the screens of website viewers around the world. Scientists on shore use the live video and voice-over-IP telepho
After the last two legs of the VISIONS '14 cruise, which took place at Slope Base and Axial Seamount, thousands of meters deep in the ocean, Leg 3 is going to take place in relatively shallow water. The Endurance Oregon Offshore site is 600
The R/V Thompson left Newport to start Leg 2 on August 1, 2014, heading for the Slope Base site. We deployed a Low Voltage node (LV01A) and conducted a couple of CTD casts.
During the VISIONS '14 expedition, ~45 undergraduate and graduate students will take part in the University of Washington's Sea-going Research & Discovery Course. This course is designed to provide students with the experience of co
As part of the VISIONS '14 website, we will be posting a variety of artistic expressions related to the oceans.
When possible, live video will be made available during VISIONS ’14. At other times, a play list of archived video from previous cruises is available. made available.
VISIONS '14 operations are focused on completing installation of the cabled component (Regional Scale Nodes) of the National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). Work is scheduled at the cabled observatory's six