Tenth Expedition to Refresh Regional Cabled Array
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!
Location
The Regional Cabled Array is the first US ocean observatory to span a tectonic plate. It is located in the northeast Pacific.
Ship
The R/V Atlantis is owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as part of the UNOLS fleet.
Updates
Regular posts about life aboard the ship, work accomplished, and encounters with marine life.
