
Saying Goodbye Once Again
Saying Goodbye Once Again As we hold station in the fog off Newport, Oregon the RCA scientists, engineers and VISIONS’26 students are preparing to say

Hot Water, Life and Lava Flows
We arrived in the caldera of Axial Seamount just after midnight on August 13, eager to enter the strange, sunken world at the summit of

Methane Seeps, a Deep-Sea Octopus, and the Long Road to Axial
The last few days aboard the R/V Roger Revelle have carried us from the shallow, current-swept shelf off Oregon out to the deep base of

Diving in Some of the Most Biologically Productive Waters in the NE Pacifc
Our first stop was also our shallowest: the Oregon Shelf site, at just 80 m water depth and about an hour from Newport. But shallow

The 2026 Regional Cabled Array Expedition is Underway
The past week has been a whirlwind of activity in preparation for departure. Once again, it has been almost exactly one year since our team

Join us as We Share Discoveries and Life at Sea – VISIONS’26
Each summer, an extraordinary scientific expedition heads into the Northeast Pacific to maintain one of the world’s most advanced underwater ocean observatories. We invite you