- All
- Endurance 16
- Endurance 17
- Endurance 18
- Endurance 19
- Endurance 20
- Endurance 21
- Endurance 22
- Endurance 23
- Irminger 10
- Irminger 11
- Irminger 12
- 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
- RCA VISIONS 25
- Station Papa 10
- Station Papa 11
- Station Papa 12
- Station Papa 9
VISIONS’22 blog
You can keep up with daily activities during RCA VISIONS’22 by watching a live stream video and reading daily blogs written by both the science…
Headed to sea soon
The Regional Cabled Array team soon goes to sea on their 43-day cruise on the R/V Thompson using the ROV ROPOS, which will make at…
Transport underway
It promises to be a full house! The first shipment of infrastructure and equipment to support the 2022 RCA operations and maintenance expedition shipped…
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
The R/V Thomas G. Thompson is operated by the University of Washington as part of the US academic research fleet, within the UNOLS framework (University National Oceanographic…
Las Actividades de Diverción
Las tardes requieren que tengas algo para entretenerte. Algunas personas trajeron sus Nintendo Switch y compartieron con todos. Depues de cenar, jugábamos Super Smash Bros…
Into Reykjavik, Iceland
After a successful cruise and 27 days at sea, the Irminger 9 expedition pulled into Reykjavik, Iceland. Although it was a great cruise, the team…
Whale sightings
NOAA Research Wildlife Biologist Peter Duley joined us again for the Irminger-9 cruise, along with the “Big Eyes” binoculars. You can read about Pete’s previous…
Food for a month
Feeding a ship’s worth of people three meals per day (plus snacks), planning meals, cleaning, and organizing stores, is constant work. Running the kitchen, or…
Glider missions
The OOI Irminger Sea Array consists of three mooring sites in a triangular with sides ~30 km long. The Surface Mooring at one corner of…
Below the surface
Three of the moorings the Irminger 9 team is deploying in the Irminger Sea are Subsurface Moorings, which means that the moorings are entirely underwater…
Pressure effects
Although the team on the Irminger Sea 9 cruise is working hard every day – including weekends and holidays – they do try to throw…
First mooring deployed
After eight days transiting from Woods Hole to the Irminger Sea, the team is happy to be there and ready to get to work. The…
Light skies
The Irminger Sea Array is at ~60° N latitude, and we are just after the summer solstice. That means it doesn’t get very dark here….
Link to OSNAP blog
A team from OSNAP (Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program) is also onboard the Armstrong, working alongside OOI colleagues. The OSNAP team is conducting…
Survival suits
All UNOLS (University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System) ships have safety briefings and drills with the science party to ensure that everyone is prepared for emergencies at…
Changing conditions
During our transit we are periodically stopping to conduct CTD casts in the Labrador Sea. We use these casts to test components and instruments that…
Splicing operation
The Surface Mooring consists of a surface buoy, a seafloor anchor, and a mooring riser connecting the two. The riser is made up of numerous…
Month-long expedition
The R/V Neil Armstrong, operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is loaded and ready for departure for a month-long expedition that includes an eight-day…
