Leg 2 students were onboard the R/V Thompson for the historic plugging in of all instruments, cables and junction boxes into the Prrimary Infrastructure and PN3B at the summit of Axial Seamount. They also witnessed the first installation of a cable Deep Profiler mooring on the cabled observatory at the base o the volcano. Return to V14 Student Blogs here.
Matthew Tomko's Blog
Monday, August 11, 2014
Last day of the cruise. Most of it spent in slight seasickness, although not enough for any drastic measures. We presented projects today. ...
Madi Shipley's Blog
Monday, August 11, 2014
It’s Sunday. We’re transiting home. So sad! I will miss the open ocean, but hopefully we’ll be reunited soon. So everyone was ...
Alex Mitchell-Morton's Blog
Monday, August 11, 2014
The Deep Profiler is a go! It took a little while and some finagling by the engineering crew, but it’s working. It was supposed to happen during ...
Corey King's Blog
Monday, August 11, 2014
We are back in Newport. Leg 2 has come to a close. Now that things have calmed down, it seems like the time for a little reflection. ...
Rachel Hubbard's Blog
Monday, August 11, 2014
Today is my last full day on the R/V Thompson. We started steaming toward Newport at noon today and the plan is to be there by 2 PM ...
Ryan Brennan's Blog
Thursday, August 07, 2014
Today my shift was extremely productive. We finally got permission from NSF to plug the cables into the node at Axial Base. It was an exciting ...
Sam Albertson's Blog
It's been hard for me to think of things to write for the past few days. I keep trying to come up with interesting things to talk about, beyond ...
Jesse Turner's Blog
Monday, August 04, 2014
We’re steaming back from Axial right now; it’s supposed to be a 22 hour trip. As weird as this sounds, it feels bizarre to know that soon I will be ...