“In an instant, the abyss below resolves into a field of contorted basaltic lava flows. Black, shiny lava pillows extend to the reach of our floodlights, much like photos I’ve…
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A video captured by ROV Jason earlier this month shows the reaction of deep-sea shrimp when a 4.7 earthquake struck 100 miles away. Watch the video footage at Woods Hole…
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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…
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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…
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A University of Delaware study lead by Emily Estes and using samples collected on an Alvin expedition finds direct links between old carbon, graphite, and seafloor hydrothermal vents.
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Geologist Michael Perfit has taken about 40 dives in HOVÂ Alvin. Read his account of a day at work underwater published in The Conversation.
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Read Gizmodo’s reporting on a paper published this month in Nature Communications that used samples collected on a 2017 Alvin mission to the East Pacific Rise 9° 50′ N vent field…
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Get to know Rick Chandler, submersible engineering and operations administrator for the Alvin Group.
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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…
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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…
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