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Guest post by Andrew Klesh, engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Exploring the unknown requires creativity, daring, and determination,” Klesh writes in the Alvin Science Verification Blog. “Space and ocean explorers are learning from each other to advance exploration.”

Follow Jason and Sentry down the U.S. East Coast on the Seep Animal Larval Transport project aboard research vessel Thomas G. Thompson as they travel down the U.S. East Coast and into the Gulf of Mexico. Check out posts featuring Jason and Sentry and their teams.

University of South Carolina featured science effort by Professor Susan Lang and her team seeking answers at Lost City using ROV Jason dive results. More on this story >>

Students at Sacred Heart School students, under the direction of Clair Lombardo, chair of the Science Department, are putting the final touches on Sacred Heart’s first school-built mini-boat research vessel, “Sacred Heart Star of the Sea,” for eventual launch in the Indian Ocean. Let’s monitor where the Miniboat is sailing right now!!! Read more on…

New Zealand Herald features recent ROV Jason dives that will contribute to unraveling one of the most mysterious earthquake faultline in the Hikurangi Subduction zone. Read more >> Also featured by the following media: GNS Science use robotic underwater vehicle to research slow slip earthquakes (suff.co.nz) Deep sea robot in quake study  

BEFORE IT’S NEWS features amazing discovery of deep sea microbes that may hold clues to early lives on the planet Earth. This research used samples taken by ROV Jason and the research team from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute. Also featured…