Deborah Kelley

PI and Director NSF OOI Cabled Array

Deborah Kelley is a Professor in the School of Oceanography. She is a long-time active contributor to the planning and development of the scientific programs and experiments associated with the US's first high power and bandwidth cabled observatory that is part of NSF's Ocean Observatories Initiative.

Exploring Khione's Sno

ROPOS was in the water by mid afternoon for the start of Dive 1472 – a long one anticipated to run for the next 20-24 hrs! ...

Exploring the Internat

Cable route and ASHES: Following another cable route survey across the caldera of Axial Seamount this morning, the rest of the d ...

Diving at the ASHES Hy

It is 1815 (6:15 pm) Pacific Time and we are about to go into the water with the robotic vehicle ROPOS again to dive in the ASHES hydrothermal field ...

Finding the New Lava F

Node Placement: Today we dove on the eastern outer wall of the Axial caldera to completely characterize the site where L3-Maripro will ...