Posts by Hannah Piecuch
Humans in the Ocean 1: when HOV Alvin portholes meet the lens of art-1
NDSF submersible and vehicle programs exist to be used in their traditional role to serve science, but they are also increasingly called to act in “non-traditional” capacities to satisfy human curiosity and cultivate broader human knowledge about the ocean. Rebecca Rutstein, currently sailing as an artist-at-sea on the Atlantis cruise AT42-05, is a visual…
Read MoreHOV Alvin is coming to San Diego this winter
#HOVAlvin and #AUVSentry are coming to San Diego this December for open house event. The San Diego Union Tribune features interviews of scientists at Scripps Institute of Oceanography who have had HOV Alvin dives recently. “In the age of marine robotics, scientists still jockey for the right to descend miles deep in Alvin, one of…
Read MoreOn Sunday, November 25th, the HOV Alvin made it’s 5000th dive
HOV Alvin marked a significant milestone to the future of deep submergence science and technology. In over 50 years of service to oceanography, HOV Alvin has shown us more about the deep ocean than anyone ever thought possible. Read more >>
Read MoreAlvin/Sentry cruise in the calm Guaymas Basin: wind wave height is “nil”.
AT42-05 cruise lead by Prof. Andreas Teske of Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has set sail on November 16th. The weather has been very calm so far (win wave heigh (ft) has been “nil” on the weather forecast we’ve been receiving and gorgeous picture posted on one of the PI Samantha Joy’s tweet) – the…
Read MoreThe deepest volcanism discovered by AUV Sentry in Mariana back-arc
New York Times featured seafloor volcanism discovered by #AUVSentry: “A Vault of Glass and the Deepest Volcanic Eruption Ever Detected” This volcanism in Mariana back-arc is originally discovered by Dr. Chadwick using #AUVSentry during a 2015 cruise, for which subsequent imagery survey revealed the prolific lava flows in one of the deepest basins in the world.…
Read MoreThree HOV Alvin/AUV Sentry expeditions in this autumn/winter 2018!
Currently, HOV Alvin and AUV Sentry are on R/V Atlantis, conducting science program lead by Prof. Erik Cordes of Temple University off Costa Rica (Voyage AT42-03 – see where is Atlantis now?). This is the first of three consecutive autumn/winter 2018 expeditions for #HOVAlvin and #AUVSentry (all funded by @NSF_GEO). Upon completion of current cruise,…
Read More500th Sentry Dive (10.16.2018) !!!
When we recover AUV Sentry during night time, its strobe highlights the vehicle emerging on sea-surface, ensuring us the vehicle is back after a dive mission. 500th time of “welcome back, well done, Sentry!!” See the WHOI Top Story about this accomplishment
Read MoreROV Jason dives at Lost City – Bringing to a close
Amazing perseverance of the science team, lead by Chief Scientist Professor Susan Lang (Univ. South Carolina), to conclude the #LostCity 2018 cruise on R/V Atlantis despite of the challenging weather conditions in the mid-North Atlantic. This expedition successfully conducted water sampling from the vent system using a novel sample tool, HOG sampler designed and built…
Read MoreHOV Alvin dives during DEEP SEARCH 2018 campaign
#HOVAlvin, operated by #NDSF_WHOI, had a great public engagement during this August’s DEEP SEARCH 2018 cruise lead by Professor Erik Cordes et al. and supported by NOAA, BOEM (#BOEM_DOI, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management), and USGS (#USGS, Unites States Geological Survey). The mission logs via NOAA’s DEEP SEARCH 2018 website describe the wholesale effort and…
Read MoreRachel Smith, the head of astronomy/astrophysics lab talks about her HOV Alvin dive
Dr. Rachel Smith, an astronomer, a professor, and the head of Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Laboratory at the North Carolina Museum of the Natural Sciences, shares her #HOVAlvin dive experience in her Motherboard interview article. Her astronomer’s eyes witness: “First of all, getting into Alvin, it seemed like a spaceship to me……You’re moving through an…
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