AUV Sentry
Deep Sea Collaboration: ROV Hercules and AUV Sentry Team Up in American Samoa | Nautilus Live
Deep Sea Collaboration: ROV Hercules and AUV Sentry Team Up in American Samoa | Nautilus Live
Read MoreVolunteer, Sofia Vakhutinsky, shares her summer with metadata
Sofia Vakhutinsky recently graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a BA in Geography and Economics and minors in Geology and Atmospheric and Ocean Science. In the fall, Sofia will start a master’s program in Atmospheric Science at the University of Washington. Sofia spent the summer sifting through metadata, which will be integrated into…
Read MoreNo Sub for Submersibles
Article in Ocean News & Technology by Aaron Steiner of DeepSea Power and Light showcasing WHOI submersibles.
Read MoreTracking the ups and downs of Axial Seamount
Story by Marley Parker Bright lights illuminate rain drops splattering across the back deck of R/V Atlantis. It’s just after 2:00 a.m., but the entire ROV team (and most of our science team) is awake and ready to go to work. Expedition Leader Akel Kevis-Stirling lifts a radio to his ear as the voice of…
Read MoreScience enabled by NDSF vehicles at Ocean Sciences
Learn how data collected from NDSF vehicles is moving science forward. Here are some talks featuring our vehicles at the upcoming Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024.
Read MoreHow to catch a plume
Sampling hydrothermal iron with adaptive AUV Sentry dives. A cruise of unusual and uniquely challenging Sentry missions: real-time course modifications, remotely triggered sample collection, and flying the vehicle in midwater.
Read MoreNDSF user spotlight: Roxanne Beinart on microbes and deep sea science
Roxanne Beinart, photo by Alex Deciccio. Roxanne Beinart is a professor of biological oceanography at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography. She’s been using NDSF vehicles since early in graduate school and is a member of the Deep Submergence Science Committee (DeSSC). We sat down with Beinart to hear about how all…
Read MoreIncreased bandwidth on UNOLS fleet
Aerial view of R/V Atlantis and R/V Neil Armstrong at sea together. Photo by Kent Sheasley © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Both R/V Neil Armstrong and R/V Atlantis will have expanded bandwidth at sea for the rest of 2023. The faster upload and download speeds are part of a fleetwide trial, funded by the Office…
Read MoreDiving into ocean data: Meet the NDSF data team
The National Deep Submergence Facility—home to Alvin, Jason, and Sentry—is more than just an innovator and operator of underwater vehicles. It also manages data collected by those vehicles. And that adds up to a lot of data.
Read MoreASLO Ocean Sciences plenary video featuring Peter Girguis
Hear from Harvard University Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology—and frequent NDSF Vehicle User—on what draws him to study the creatures of the deep sea. See if you can spot all three vehicles—Alvin,Jason, and Sentry. Watch here.
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