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Off We Go – Will Axial Seamount Surprise Us?

RCA VISIONS 24

OOI's Regional Cabled Array team from the University of Washington's School of Oceanography and the Applied Physics Laboratory will once again have an exciting summer in the NE Pacific maintaining the National Science Foundations’ Regional Cabled Array (RCA) underwater observatory. This summer’s 37-day expedition (August 6-September 11) is especially exciting because we will be spending significant time directly viewing the highly active submarine volcano off our coast ‘Axial Seamount’, which erupted in 2015 and is poised to erupt anytime between now and sometime in 2025. Check back regularly for updates!

EXPEDITION UPDATES

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  • Endurance 16
  • Endurance 17
  • Endurance 18
  • Endurance 19
  • Endurance 20
  • Irminger 10
  • Irminger 11
  • Irminger 9
  • Pioneer 17
  • Pioneer 18
  • Pioneer 19
  • Pioneer MAB At-Sea Tests
  • Pioneer MAB Initial Deployment
  • Pioneer MAB Test Deployment
  • RCA VISIONS 22
  • RCA VISIONS 23
  • RCA VISIONS 24
  • Station Papa 10
  • Station Papa 11
  • Station Papa 9

And It’s Done


IRMINGER: Mooring operations have been completed at the OOI Irminger Sea Array with the recovery…

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Recovery Video


IRMINGER: See live action of a hybrid profiler mooring recovery. Video by Rebecca Travis ©…

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Flanking Mooring B Recovery


IRMINGER: After deploying all of the “new” moorings, the CGSN team is now recovering the…

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Pride Month!


IRMINGER: It’s Pride Month and rainbows colors are everywhere out aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong!!…

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Surface Mooring Recovery


IRMINGER: The weather toyed with the CGSN team the day of the Surface Mooring recovery…

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OSNAP Moorings In


IRMINGER: The Overturning the in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP) has a line of…

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Blue Whale Sighting


IRMINGER: While the OOI and OSNAP teams are busy with mooring operations, Pete Duley from…

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Onto OSNAP


IRMINGER: All four of the new OOI Irminger Sea moorings have been deployed and the…

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Anchor Away!


IRMINGER: The moorings at the OOI Irminger Sea Array vary from 1.5 to 2 miles…

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Flanking Mooring B Next


IRMINGER: The second Flanking Mooring was deployed at the OOI Irminger Sea Array; the last…

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Flanking Mooring A In


IRMINGER: The OOI-CGSN team deployed Flanking Mooring A in the OOI Irminger Sea Array off…

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Hands-On Experience for POGO Fellow


STATION PAPA: POGO Fellow Aditi Sharma is on the return leg to Seward, Alaska, having…

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Glider Ops


IRMINGER: In addition to fixed moorings, the OOI Irminger Sea Array consists of autonomous gliders….

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Profiler Mooring in the Water


IRMINGER: Another gray day in the Irminger Sea and another OOI mooring in the water….

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Hybrid Profiler Mooring Recovered


STATION PAPA: The Station Papa moorings are replaced on a yearly schedule.  Here the OOI-CGSN…

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Work Completed Despite Weather


STATION PAPA: The RV Sikuliaq and the science party have been experiencing some rough weather,…

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Giant Hairy Bearded Man


STATION PAPA, June 11, 2024: Recovery operations were set to begin once the deployment operations…

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Large Surface Mooring Operational


IRMINGER: The large surface mooring at the OOI Irminger Sea Array is in the water…

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Surface Mooring Deployed


IRMINGER: The OOI-CGSN team arrived at the OOI Irminger Sea Array ahead of a storm…

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8 Day Transit Provides Prep Time


IRMINGER: It takes eight days to transit from Woods Hole to the Irminger Sea.  During…

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POGO Fellow Sharing Experiences


POGO Fellow Aditi Sharma is using down time aboard the R/V Sikuliaq to share her…

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OSNAP Blog is Live


IRMINGER:  Heather Furey, Adam Houk, and Meg Yoder are aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong along…

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Fellow Learning the Ropes


STATION PAPA: India-based POGO Fellow Aditi Sharma has been busy aboard the R/V Sikuliaq in…

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All Hands On Deck! 


STATION PAPA: Everyone needs to pitch in when deck operations are happening.  Here Jim Edson…

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Hybrid Profiler Mooring in Water


STATION PAPA: The CGSN team successfully deployed a Hybrid Profiler Mooring (HYPM) at the Station…

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UW Waverider Deployed


STATION PAPA: Onboard the Sikuliaq is the OOI-CGSN team to perform the yearly Station Papa…

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Deployment Ready


STATION PAPA: While in transit, the OOI-CGSN team needs to prepare the various mooring components…

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Aerial View


STATION PAPA: This is the back deck of the RV Sikuliaq while in transit to…

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Build, Test, Load


STATION PAPA: The OOI-CGSN team completed the build, testing, and loading of the Station Papa…

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Safety Drills


IRMINGER: Chief Mate Chris Manka showed Boston College student, Ayden Schirmacher, how to don an…

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And We’re Off!


IRMINGER: The Irminger 11 team aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong left the WHOI Dock at…

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BC Biogeochemical Researchers


IRMINGER: A team from Boston College was aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong on Thursday May…

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Securing Back Deck


IRMINGER: The Coastal and Global Scale Nodes team has been busy loading the deck of…

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POGO Fellow Aboard


STATION PAPA: Aditi Sharma, a PhD candidate at the National Institute of Oceanography India, made…

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R/V Sikuliaq


The 261-foot R/V Sikuliaq is one of the most advanced university research vessels in the world, capable of breaking ice up to 2.5 feet thick.

Pronounced [see-KOO-lee-auk], the vessel is owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, as part of the U.S. academic research fleet.

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R/V Neil Armstrong


The R/V Neil Armstrong is a state-of-the-art oceangoing research vessel. The ship is 238 feet long, can sustain speeds of 10 knots, has a range of 11,500 nautical miles, and can remain at sea for up to 40 days. Named for the American hero whose “small step” provided humanity with a new perspective on our planet, this vessel carries on its namesake’s legacy of exploration.

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