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- A Flurry of Activity
- Leg 3 Begins
- Onward We Go About to Start Leg ...
- Lighting up Axial Seamount Agai ...
- A Blustery Transit to Axial Sea ...
- Blizzards, Drones, and Gas Bubb ...
- Leg 2 of VISIONS17 Begins
- Leg 1 Coming to a Close
- Southern Hydrate Ridge and Weat ...
- Flames in the Deep Sea
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A Flurry of Activity
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Days 3 and 4 of the final leg of the 2017 OOI Cabled Array O&M Cruise were filled with a wide variety of activities. Jason Dive J2-1007 visited the International District Hydrothermal Field ...
Leg 3 Begins
Monday, August 21, 2017
The final leg of the 2017 OOI Cabled Array Cruise got underway at approximately 12:30 pm PDT on Sunday as the R/V Revelle pulled away from the NOAA dock in Newport, OR ...
Onward We Go About to Star
Friday, August 18, 2017
Leg 2 has come to a close and preparations are underway for Leg 3 of the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative Regional Cable Array Cruise. ...
Lighting up Axial Seamount
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
We arrived at Axial Seamount after a 19 hr steam to find the seas a bit bumpy still. To use the time wisely until we could dive a deep water CTD cast was conducted to get additional measurements of ocean parameters to verify cabled mooring instr ...
A Blustery Transit to Axia
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Following the completion of work at the Southern Hydrate Ridge methane seep site, the R/V Revelle transited to Slope Base to install an HPIES (horizontal electric field, pressure and inverted echo sounder) instrument that provides insig ...
Blizzards, Drones, and Gas
Friday, August 11, 2017
Yesterday under calm seas we completed work at the Oregon Offshore site, turning one of the Benthic Experiment Platforms (BEP) ...
Leg 2 of VISIONS17 Begins
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
We came into Newport, Oregon on August 7 after completing our dives at the Oregon Offshore Site. After watching the Seattle weather, we appreciated the cooler overcast conditions in Newport. The R/V Revelle sat off the entrance to the channel at ...
Leg 1 Coming to a Close
Saturday, August 05, 2017
Somehow in the past few days, time has sped up. It seems amazing that we will be in port on Monday. Time out here is different. For those of us who have spent much of our time on the R/V Thompson, its sister ship the R/V Revelle.. ...
Southern Hydrate Ridge and
Thursday, August 03, 2017
The weather gods have been playing with us this past few days. Winds were above 20-25 knots with angry seas, which prevented us from diving after the dive in the International District Hydrothermal Field at the summit of Axial Seamount. Once the ...
Flames in the Deep Sea
Tuesday, August 01, 2017
Yesterday was a fantastic day investigating the International District Hydrothermal Field ...
Onward to Axial Seamount
Sunday, July 30, 2017
On the 28th, we continued work on the Shallow Profiler Mooring at the Oregon Offshore Site. It went very well and by 2200 work at that site was completed for the Leg. ...
Life on the Shallow Profil
Friday, July 28, 2017
Today was a beautiful, blue-skied sunny day with calm seas. We continued to work at the Oregon Offshore Site on the Shallow Profiler Mooring today. Last night and ...
Off We Go Again
Thursday, July 27, 2017
The R/V Revelle departed Newport, Oregon at 1028 for the Oregon Offshore Site to turn instrument packages on the Shallow Profiler Mooring. This is the first year the UW-NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative Regional Cabled Array cruises ha ...
Soon We Depart For Another
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
The UW School of Oceanography, in the College of the Environment, and the Applied Physics Laboratory Cabled Array team has been working long days ...
