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- Endurance 16
- Endurance 17
- Endurance 18
- Endurance 19
- Endurance 20
- Irminger 10
- 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
- Station Papa 10
- Station Papa 9
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.