Category: Visions 15

A Fine Field Season It Was

The Cabled Array VISIONS’15 cruise is now complete – it was an amazing 35 days at sea onboard the R/V Thompson using the remotely operated vehicle ROPOS for the first Cabled Array Operations and Maintenance cruise f

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Old School Oxygen

The last leg of VISIONS'15 has been focused on servicing parts of the OOI Endurance Array.  We are using many of the same technologies deployed at Axial Volcano and Hydrate Ridge to make observations in the Coastal Ocean.  The Endu

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A Roller Coaster of a Ride

The term “roller coaster” invokes images of violent undulating motions that peak and ebb and almost certainly force objects in directions that may be resisted but rarely overcome. But the term is also often used

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The End of One Leg Start of Another

Today marks the end of Leg 2, and beginning of Leg 3 for the Cabled Array VISIONS’15 cruise. It has been a wonderful run so far. Over this past 26 days, the Cabled Array Team working with the R/V Thompson and ROPOS crew have recovered and

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First Eyes On the Axial Eruption 2015

At 1933 PST July 26, 2015 after descending ~1840 m beneath the oceans surface, the remotely operated vehicle ROPOS and the University of Washington Ocean Observatories Initiative Cabled Array team set first eyes on the April 24th, 2015

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VISIONS 15

The Cabled Array VISIONS’15 35-day cruise completed installation of the three Deep Profiler Moorings, as well the recovery and reinstallation of junction boxes, mooring science pods, and ~100 cabled instruments for the first Operations and Maintenance period of the OOI.

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Back to the Volcano

The R/V Thompson continues to have incredibly busy days as she and her crew finish operations and maintenance for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Cabled Array. We are in our final days of Leg 2 of this three Leg expedition. Yes

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What Happens in the Deep Ocean

Yesterday and today, the team from the University of Washington Applied Physics Lab (APL) has been working long hours on Deep Profiler Moorings that feature an instrumented wire crawler connected to the Internet. These crawlers are designed to p

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A Breather Before Leg 2

The R/V Thompson sailed into Newport, Oregon yesterday morning under much calmer seas than she had experienced the previous two days. It is always an exciting time to come through the channel, under the beautiful Yaquina Bay bridge, and

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Contributors

The project began as a collaboration between faculty and students to complle the facts regarding the biology around the sites of the Cabled Array. Without these individuals, this undertaking would not have been possible.

 

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