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 HOV 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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“Subsea imaging has been intimately tied to our understanding of the world’s oceans since its beginnings.” An article in Ocean News & Technology traces the history and present-day advances in deep-sea imaging
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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…
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“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…
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New research from scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution published in the PNAS uses rock samples from around the world, some gathered by ROV Jason, to identify a new source of methane…
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