Zooplankton Viruses
Kendra Daly, an OOI-RSN Senior project Scientist, is onboard conducting plankton net tows to obtain samples for her ongoing study…
August 16, 2011
Category: Daily Blog 2011
Engineering tests and bubble plume chases
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
August 15, 2011
First ROV dive at Southern Hydrate Ridge
We arrived on station at Southern Hydrate Ridge at 1400h today and began an EM302 multibeam survey across Northern and Southern Hydrate Ridge.
August 14, 2011
Seismometer recovery and first impressions
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
August 13, 2011
BIA and SIA testing off Smith Island WA
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
August 13, 2011
Dynamic Positioning
The R/V Thomas G. Thompson and TE SubCom Dependable—-the two ships now working at sea on behalf of the OOI regional cable
August 13, 2011
Loading ROPOS in Victoria
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
August 12, 2011
Testing the OOI Primary Node
Deployment and recovery tests of an OOI primary node are among the major activities scheduled during Leg 1 of the VISIONS ’11 cruise.
August 10, 2011
Update on Cable Installation
We are making good progress, and the weather has been beautiful today.
August 10, 2011
Two Ships at Sea
There will soon be two ships at sea conducting work related to the regional cabled network component of the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative.
August 10, 2011