AUV Sentry
12/11-12/13: Live two-way broadcasts from the HOV Alvin/AUV Sentry cruise!!
National Science Foundation/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/American Geophysical Union joint press-release: “Scientists and engineers on a deep-sea expedition aboard the research vessel Atlantis in the East Pacific Ocean will be broadcasting live to the American Geophysical Union fall meeting exhibit booth from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 11, Wednesday, Dec. 12, and Thursday,…
Read MoreIt 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 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
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