@whoi.ocean recently hosted the Annual Fall Meeting of the OBSIC Operations Sub-Committee. Committee members along with @nsfgov were given an in-depth tour of the OBSIC lab where they learned about new instrumentation, testing protocols, instrument preparation, inventory systems and more.

📸: Nicole Mantopoulos, WHOI

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Meet Protected Species Observer and Lead Artist Cassandra Frey, who spearheaded the effort to continue a long standing @scripps_ocean tradition of customizing one of the Scripps instrument float blocks. The science party and crew also signed the float before it was deployed at #BlakePlateau on a recent cruise on the R/V Marcus G. Langseth.



📸: Dan Kot and Alan Gardner



@columbialamontearth @unols_org @nsfgov @whoi.ocean



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While dodging three hurricanes - Franklin, Idalia and Lee – OBSIC, with the help of a UNOLS Tech Pool Technician and a UNOLS MATE intern, successfully completed an active source experiment at the Blake Plateau (H. Van Avendonk, @utgeophysics) aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth. An active source experiment creates its own sound wave for the deployed instruments to monitor, which acts as an ultrasound of the earth.

Read more about the expedition - https://www.blakeplateau.com/ (link in bio)

Photographs: Alan Gardner, Protected Species Observers, and MGL2310

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After a two-day turnaround at the NOAA dock in Newport, OR, the @rvsallyride returned to sea and successfully deployed 14 OBS at Axial Seamount, a large submarine volcano on the Juan de Fuca spreading center that erupted in 1998, 2011 and 2015. The OBS will record hundreds of earthquakes, and perhaps the anticipated eruption of the volcano.

📸 Felix Waldhauser @columbialamontearth and Jeremiah Brower @rvsallyride

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#deepseavolcano #seamount

After recovering the instruments at Axial Seamount, the @rvsallyride headed into port, sailing under Yaquina Bay Bridge, to re-battery and test instruments to prepare for a second 12-month deployment.

📸: Hannah Brewer (WHOI)

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As a part of a multi-year experiment with Principal Investigator William Wilcock @uofwa, OBSIC personnel recently traveled to the Pacific Coast to join the @rvsallyride in Newport, Oregon. The ship headed out to Axial Seamount, about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon to recover Ocean Bottom Seismometers that had been deployed on the seafloor for one year. Joining this recovery cruise were OBSIC’s newest technicians (pictured here), one of which is a high school senior at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School. They were very fortunate to have smooth seas on their very first research cruise!

Photos: Hannah Brewer (WHOI)

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OBSIC recently participated in the Woods Hole Science Stroll, welcoming 1800 people to the WHOI dock! Visitors to the booth learned about marine seismology and ocean bottom seismographs (OBS) by creating their own `stepquake` and popping balloons underwater. WHOI`s VP for Advancement & CMO, Sam Harp, stopped by to give it a try!

📷: Nicole Mantopoulos

@whoi.ocean @nsfgov
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