- All
- Endurance 16
- Endurance 17
- Endurance 18
- Endurance 19
- Endurance 20
- Endurance 21
- Endurance 22
- Irminger 9
- Irminger 10
- Irminger 11
- Irminger 12
- Pioneer 17
- Pioneer 18
- Pioneer 19
- Pioneer 21
- Pioneer MAB At-Sea Tests
- Pioneer MAB Initial Deployment
- Pioneer MAB Test Deployment
- RCA VISIONS 22
- RCA VISIONS 23
- RCA VISIONS 24
- RCA VISIONS 25
- Station Papa 10
- Station Papa 11
- Station Papa 12
- Station Papa 9
Weather Not Cooperating
August 19-20, 2023: High winds and seas have prevented field operations from happening over the last two days. The waves have been so choppy and…
Work Continues in Spite of Weather
August 18th, 2023: The attempt to dodge the weather fronts continues for the science team aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson. With a break in…
Pink Sea Urchin Visits
August 17, 2023: A beautiful colony of light orange anemones grows on the shallow profiler Science Pod base, along with a pink sea urchin, and…
Busy Day of Dives
August 16th, 2023: Throughout the night and into the early morning, Jason completed a series of dives here at the Oregon Offshore site. Jason successfully completed…
Students and Guests Ready to Roll
August 15, 2023: As the R/V Thomas G. Thompson cleared the channel and headed into the Pacific, VISIONS’ students and guests posed for a picture…
Safety First
August 13, 2023: With 40 knot winds offshore, the Thompson was kept inshore for an extra day and plans made to switch operations to the…
Slight Weather Delay
After a one-day weather delay, the RCA team will be departing aboard the R/V Thompson today, August 14th at ~1315 to head out to the…
Preparations in Full Swing
Regional Cabled Array Principal Investigator and Chief Scientist for Legs 1 and 4, Deborah Kelley (back row, second from right) is excited to be headed…
Homeward Bound after Successful Mission
The RV Sikuliaq is returning to Seward, Alaska after completing a successful Papa 10 cruise. The vessel is loaded down with recovered Papa 9 moorings…
Anchor Away!
The final step in a flanking mooring deployment….Jim Dunn cuts away and deploys the 6000 lb mace anchor.
Pitching In
Everyone pitches in where they’re needed most…Kris Newhall is the Chief Scientist on Papa 10, supports deck operations, and here acts as a mobile desk…
Check, Double Check
Mooring and instrument systems are checked multiple times prior to deployment. Here Dan Bogorff and James Kuo perform one last communications check on the hybrid…
CTD Deployment
Here Carmen Greto, an RV Sikuliaq technician, monitors the deployment of a conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) rosette. The CTD measures salinity, temperature, and pressure…
Alaskan Visitor
An Alaskan local stops by for a visit…a seal dropped by the RV Sikuliaq to give the Papa team some advice on buoy recoveries.
A Year at Sea
What one year in the ocean looks like…. A flanking mooring 64” sphere before (nice and shiny), and after (with 12 months of marine growth). …
Deployment Ready
The RV Sikuliaq is on site at the Papa array. Surrounded by the deck and instrument teams, and vessel crew, Jim Dunn gives a briefing…
Safety First
Shipboard safety is always a priority. Early in the cruise all Papa personnel must go through the safety briefing and drills, including how to put…
Acoustic Tests
Here Jim Dunn of WHOI prepares acoustic releases for a test deployment. They will be lowered into the water and test actuated using an acoustic…
Moorings Tested and Assembled
Following the loading of the equipment on the RV Sikuliaq, the moorings are assembled and tested during the transit to the Station Papa site.
