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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 21
- 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
Emptying the Deck
Today, Friday September 23, was another day of deployment on the Endurance’s Washington Line. The Endurance Team reported on deck at 645 to begin preparing…
Bioluminescence
Some of my colleagues and I had a very special treat last night. We witnessed an amazing swath of bioluminescence off the stern of the…
Two moorings, two gliders, topped with a CTD
As my mother-in-law would say, today on the R/V Thomas G. Thompson was chock-a-block full. We arrived at the Washington Shelf Site around 11 am…
Unlikely solution
The Coastal Endurance Team applied Desitin ointment, typically used to avoid diaper rashes and other skin ailments, to Glider 917. The ointment is a zinc…
And, We’re Off!
The R/V Thomas G. Thompson left the Newport pier at noon Pacific time today for the 17th recovery and deployment mission of the Coastal Endurance…
Live from the Thompson
Chief Scientist Jonathan Fram appeared live from onboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson to explain OOI and the Endurance 17 operations. To watch, click here.
Mobilization
Twelve Endurance 17 team members, led by Chief Scientist Jonathan Fram, met in the early morning darkness at Oregon State University’s Ocean Observing Center in…
Live ship-shore video: Sept 21
Mark your calendar to tune in to a rare opportunity to see live OOI action from the R/V Thomas G. Thompson: Wednesday September 21 at noon eastern. Exploring…
Blue Sharks Encounter
This clip of ROPOS ROV video from dives R2330 and R2331 (compiled by UW student Leilani Combs) shows some of the aggressive behavior by the…
Operational for 8 years at 200 meters
Recovery of the OOI Cabled Slope Base Shallow Profiler mooring. The platform normally sits at 200m depth, stable instruments on one side and the profiler…
Sea Spider
A pycnogonid (sea spider, a kind of arthropod) recovered along with other macrofauna samples from the ASHES hydrothermal vent field on Axial Seamount, while we…
Curious Stowaway!
The RCA team had a stowaway on Leg 3 of the OOI RCA O&M cruise! This bold adventurer even joined them in the main lab…
ROPOS delivery
ROPOS launching with one of four experimental sonar tripods to be plugged into the OOI Regional Cabled Array. They were developed by UW researchers to…
Sunrise prep
UW-APL engineer Paul Aguilar up at sunrise to prep the Axial Base Horizontal Electrometer Pressure-Inverted Echosounder (HPIES), a novel OOI instrument measuring horizontal electrical field,…
Water column sampling
ROPOS recently ran a series of dives to swap out the OOI deep profiler vehicles after a year in the water. A specialized ROV frame…
Homes for marine life
The OOI Oregon Offshore deep profiler mooring, which hosts a vehicle that moves up and down the cable taking measurements, has a large float at…
Camera capturing gas hydrate mound
An OOI PI-deployed camera captured the ROPOS ROV peeking over a gas hydrate mound. The striped pole was originally deployed in a cavern and is…
Dumbo and done
The RCA 8 Team saw a Dumbo octopus at Southern Hydrate Ridge. They also have successfully deployed 100% of the equipment planned for Leg 2…
And a curious catshark
A curious Brown catshark has shown up repeatedly while the RCA team has been working at Southern Hydrate Ridge on the OOI RCA O&M cruise!…
