HOV Alvin
It begins – Early Career Scientists with HOV Alvin and AUV Sentry
The AT42-06 expedition has begun. They will head first to a chain of seamounts south of Manzanillo and west of the East Pacific Rise at 8°20’ N to complete the 2016 OASIS expedition with four Alvin and three Sentry dives. After that, they steam 100 miles north to the East Pacific Rise at 9°50’ N…
Read MoreHOV Alvin continues making deep seafloor direct observations within our reach
Since the #HOVAlvin marked the 5000th dive milestone, there has been the extensive media coverage celebrating this remarkable achievement. Read more at various news sites! EurekAlter!-AAAS Sea-Technology.com maritime-executive.com Subsea World News Ocean News & Technology Clipper Oil Marine Fuels CapeCod.com Falmouth Enterprise.com Now, with this great tailwind, the R/V Atlantis AT42-06 cruise has set sail…
Read MoreHumans in the Ocean 2: when HOV Alvin portholes meet the lens of art-2
Rebecca Rutstein, a visual artist who has been inspired by deep sea processes, has set up her art studio in the main lab of R/V Atlantis, and painted several art works based on her experiences in #HOVAlvin. As many before her have experienced, the view through Alvin’s porthole affected her deeply. “There is nothing quite…
Read MoreHumans 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 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 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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