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5-6 September 2023 Our last few days of the cruise were mostly transit, but there was lots of work to be done.

August 22, 2023

6 September 2023 Over the last few days, I’ve spent a lot of time helping out in the ROV control van.

August 22, 2023

6 September 2023 I originally wasn’t going to make another blog post after the last, but I had to include what

August 22, 2023

Dax Soule, Queens College This has been a challenging few days at sea. You might not expect that a team of scientists

August 20, 2023

August 17, 2023 It feels like ages since we left Newport, but we are just starting DAY 4! How can that be?

August 17, 2023

Wolf Eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus) Curious wolf eels occasionally visit the OOI infrastructure at the Oregon Shelf (80 m) site, swimming on and

August 16, 2023

19 August 2023 Plop me down on a ship a few hundred years ago and I could reasonably be convinced that the

August 16, 2023

Pudgy Cusk Eel (Spectrunculus grandis) As with eelpouts and wolf eels, cusk eels are ALSO not true eels. These deep-sea, ray-finned fish

August 16, 2023

Slime Star (Hymenaster sp.) Hagfish aren’t the only marine species that have a slimy defense mechanism: Pterasterids are deep-water sea stars that

August 16, 2023

Fragile Pink Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus fragilis) Commonly seen at the Oregon Offshore and Slope Base sites, S. fragilis is a regular sea

August 16, 2023