AUV Sentry
Cape Cod Times: Plunging into the final frontier
“Now an $8 million upgrade to the submersible powerhouse Alvin will allow WHOI researchers nearly unprecedented access to some of the most inaccessible corners of the world’s deepest waters, helping us once again to remember what it means to be amazed.” Read an opinion piece on the Alvin upgrade in the Cape Cod Times.
Read MoreCOVID-19 information for NDSF user community
Following guidance from UNOLS and our host site Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the National Deep Submergence Facility is monitoring the situation related to COVID-19 closely and taking appropriate actions to keep our team and users safe. We are in the process of bringing all vehicles back to their home port in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.…
Read MoreVineyard Current: Andy Bowen on the past and future of deep sea exploration
Listen as NDSF Director Andy Bowen reflects on deep sea exploration and the challenges of building the robots of the future on an episode of The Vineyard Current, produced by MVYRadio. The interview aired to preview a talk Bowen will give at Falmouth Academy’s Community Forum on February 6 at 7pm. Bowen will share the…
Read MoreUnderway: Alvin and Sentry on the Hot2Cold Vents cruise at 9°50’N
Continuing work started earlier in 2019, the Sylvan Geomicrobiology Lab from Texas A&M returns to 9°50’N on the East Pacific Rise with Alvin and Sentry to study organisms that live in hydrothermal vent ecosystems and the surrounding seafloor terrain. Follow along on the cruise blog. Read more about the research project.
Read MoreLightning Deployment
The Sentry Team and deck crew on the research vessel Atlantis had to move quickly in order to launch the autonomous underwater vehicle between squalls off the West Coast recently. Sentry was participating in the University of Washington-led Pythias Oasis expedition funded by the National Science Foundation to map a seafloor fluid “seep” named after the Greek oracle at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi built…
Read MoreSentry maps the seafloor at the Marion Rise
Check out the cruise site for Sentry’s deployment in the Indian Ocean this past spring. Sentry mapped ~10,000 square kilometers of mantle exposed at the seafloor in this previously unexplored region. Read the daily cruise blog and more about Sentry and the Sentry team.
Read MoreChristian Science Monitor: How the deep sea could unlock outer space
Read an article in the Christian Science Monitor exploring how deep-sea research by the oceanographic community—long enabled by NDSF vehicles—has redefined the understanding of where life can exist. Now that knowledge is being used to look for life beyond Earth.
Read MoreAlvin in HuffPost: Chasing the methane dragon
“A submersible dive is like a slow-motion fall through a distant galaxy.” Read a HuffPost article about scientists using Alvin to study how cold methane seeps are responding to a warming ocean (and a journalist’s first deep sea dive).
Read MoreDisasters at Sea: NDSF assists in investigating sinking of El Faro
Watch an episode of Smithsonian Channel’s Disasters at Sea to see how a team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and NDSF assisted with the recovery of the voyage data recorder a year after cargo ship El Faro sank.
Read MoreAUV Sentry Featured on NSF Science 360
Take a peek at Sentry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s state-of-the-art autonomous underwater vehicle. Supported by the National Science Foundation, it’s capable of exploring the ocean and seafloor to depths of 19,000 feet while untethered.
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