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Dissuading Pesky Sea Lions

California sea-lions haul out on Endurance Array shelf buoys during the day. These buoys ride higher at night, which corresponds to when the sea-lions leave…

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Coastal Piercing Profiler Deployment

A Coastal Surface Piercing Profiler is headed overboard. In the background is the Oregon Inshore Surface Mooring 150 meters away. They are deployed near each…

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UNOLS Volunteers Leg 2

On this cruise leg, the two UNOLS Cruise Volunteers who joined the Endurance 20 team are graduate students Malik Jordan and Ellery Ohlwiler. Here they…

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Sediment Traps Day

The Endurance 20 team’s main effort today was to turn a sediment trap mooring. The project is led by professors Jennifer Fehrenbacher (Oregon State University)…

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New Instrument Testing

In addition to the baseline instruments the Endurance Team deploys on each cruise, this Near Surface Instrument Frame has two test instruments. They deploy them…

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Back in Port

The R/V Sikuliaq’s starboard crane is lifting the bases of the Endurance 20 moorings onto the ship. The bases of the moorings, Multi-Function Nodes, house…

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Friendship Bracelets

Athena, one of the undergraduate students who refurbishes and assembles the Endurance 20 moorings in Corvallis, made “EA TWENTY” bracelets to commemorate the 20th Endurance…

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Weather Not Cooperating

The Endurance 20 team was not able to accomplish what they had planned for today (April 5, 2024) because seas were too rough. They pegged…

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Winches and Cranes Galore

Working smarter, not harder. A picture of many heavy objects being moved without anyone carrying anything by hand aboard the R/V Sikuliaq during the Endurance…

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UNOLS Volunteers Pitch In

The Endurance 20 team includes two UNOLS Cruise Volunteers on each leg. These volunteers are graduate students looking for opportunities to go to sea. On…

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Crabs Galore

Image of crab pots surrounding the ship as the R/V Sikuliaq and the Endurance 20 team were adjacent to the Washington Inshore Surface Mooring. The…

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New Pier!

The NSF-OOI Endurance Array team from Oregon State University is proud to be mobilizing from OSU’s newly renovated pier. The light-colored concrete in the picture…

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Mobilization Underway

The Endurance 20 team took advantage of the good weather to load most of what was needed for the first leg of the National Science…

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Heavy Winch Test

In preparation for the Endurance 20 expedition, the heavy winch to be used in recovery and deployment operations on the R/V Sikuliaq, is lifted in…

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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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