Lauren Kowalski’s Blog
I want to stay longer, I love this environment. It’s amazing seeing what really happens in the realm of science past school, past what’s confined at the university and in labs.
August 27, 2014
Category: Visions 14
Myesa Legendre Fixx’s Blog
It’s been a fantastic journey aboard the Tommy Thompson, a journey that is quickly coming to an end.
August 27, 2014
Bill Medwedeff’s Blog
I am glad I stayed up … not just to see the highlights from the seafloor but also to see the sunrise, which was soft and beautiful.
August 27, 2014
Tysen Mulder’s Blog
This is a pretty remarkable time to be alive, and an even better one to be young. Life here on planet Earth seems to be changing, slowly now, but already the difference between life today and life 20 years ago is astounding
August 27, 2014
Victoria Selesnick’s Blog
This is the kind of supportive and strenuous environment is exactly what I hoped I’d experience on my leg of Visions’14, and what I will strive to be part of, both professionally and personally, in the future
August 27, 2014
Kevin Simans Blog
I was enthralled with the poems and stories that were shared by chief scientists, students, and crew alike.
August 27, 2014
Leg 4 Hydrate Ridge Adventures
Leg 4 of the VISIONS’14 Expedition departed Newport, Oregon, today after a packed 2.5-day mobilization. The R/V Thompson is once again “loaded to the gills” with cables, junction boxes, instruments, and mooring packages
August 27, 2014
Shallow Waters
The end of Leg 3 is approaching rapidly, and we successfully met every goal for this leg of the VISIONS14 expedition, including some originally scheduled for Leg 2. We’ll be back in Newport by morning. On to Leg 4!
August 24, 2014
Standing on Two Legs
We have another first to report: the first deployment of a two-legged shallow profiler mooring at the Endurance Oregon Offshore site! The mooring operations were smooth, safe, and ultimately a complete success, thanks to a remarkable run of calm weather.
August 22, 2014
High Waves, Deep Methane
Over the last few days, while waiting for the weather to improve, we spent nights doing water sampling and one extremely long sonar survey, and ROPOS Dive 1750 went to Hydrate Ridge, where methane gas naturally bubbles out of the sediment.
August 20, 2014