Ocean Bottom Seismic
Instrument Center
#obsic fabricated a #cataraft to be able to deploy #seismographs in Skilak Lake, Alaska. Normal operations require a large ship and a crane to deploy the instruments but that was not possible on the lake. Learn more about this project with #usgs - 🔗 in bio.
📸: @timkane_obs @usgs
#broadband_obs #seismic #research #earthquake #alaska #remotefieldwork #glaciallake #whoi
#obsic fabricated a #cataraft to be able to deploy #seismographs in Skilak Lake, Alaska. Normal operations require a large ship and a crane to deploy the instruments but that was not possible on the lake. Learn more about this project with #usgs - 🔗 in bio.
📸: @timkane_obs @usgs
#broadband_obs #seismic #research #earthquake #alaska #remotefieldwork #glaciallake #whoi
#obsic partnered with #usgs to deploy #seismographs in and around Skilak Lake, Alaska. This project looks to quantify ground acceleration from local and regional earthquakes in an effort to quantify how susceptible lake-bottom sediments are to shaking.
Learn more about this project - link in bio.
📸: @timkane_obs @hannahbrewer34 @usgs
📹: @hannahbrewer34
#broadband_obs #seismic #research #earthquake #alaska #remotefieldwork #glaciallake #cataraft #whoi
#obsic partnered with #usgs to deploy #seismographs in and around Skilak Lake, Alaska. This project looks to quantify ground acceleration from local and regional earthquakes in an effort to quantify how susceptible lake-bottom sediments are to shaking.
Learn more about this project - link in bio.
📸: @timkane_obs @hannahbrewer34 @usgs
📹: @hannahbrewer34
#broadband_obs #seismic #research #earthquake #alaska #remotefieldwork #glaciallake #cataraft #whoi
#obsic personnel along with #usgs (Nathan Miller and team, which included USGS divers), successfully completed a test deployment of our new fleet of 10 Sercel MicrOBS near the Weepecket Islands offshore #whoi earlier this month. These highly portable OBS are equipped with rechargeable batteries, and will enable OBSIC to rapidly deploy instrumentation in response to earthquake and volcanic hazards.
📸📹: Nathan Miller (USGS), Dan Kot (WHOI), @ngilles1 (WHOI), @hannahbrewer34 (WHOI)
🤿📹: Eric Marsjanik (USGS)
#ocean #research #seismic #earthquake #scubadiving #underwater #sercel #rapidresponse_obs
#obsic personnel along with #usgs (Nathan Miller and team, which included USGS divers), successfully completed a test deployment of our new fleet of 10 Sercel MicrOBS near the Weepecket Islands offshore #whoi earlier this month. These highly portable OBS are equipped with rechargeable batteries, and will enable OBSIC to rapidly deploy instrumentation in response to earthquake and volcanic hazards.
📸📹: Nathan Miller (USGS), Dan Kot (WHOI), @ngilles1 (WHOI), @hannahbrewer34 (WHOI)
🤿📹: Eric Marsjanik (USGS)
#ocean #research #seismic #earthquake #scubadiving #underwater #sercel #rapidresponse_obs
In collaboration with KUM @geomarkiel, OBSIC deployed and recovered #geomar Lobster OBSs capable of reaching depths of >7800 meters which were necessary for Chief Scientist Pablo Canales’ (#whoi) experiment in the Puerto Rico Trench.
📹: @hannahbrewer34
#nsffunded #unols #obsic #scripps #ocean #research #rvmarcusglangseth #seismology #geosciences #earthquakes #puertoricotrench #shortperiod_obs
In collaboration with KUM @geomarkiel, OBSIC deployed and recovered #geomar Lobster OBSs capable of reaching depths of >7800 meters which were necessary for Chief Scientist Pablo Canales’ (#whoi) experiment in the Puerto Rico Trench.
📹: @hannahbrewer34
#nsffunded #unols #obsic #scripps #ocean #research #rvmarcusglangseth #seismology #geosciences #earthquakes #puertoricotrench #shortperiod_obs
OBSIC recently deployed and recovered three different types of short period instruments, a collaboration of @whoi.ocean, @scripps_ocean, and @geomarkiel on the #RVMarcusGLangseth for Chief Scientist Pablo Canales’ active source cruise off Puerto Rico.
📸: Arne Schwenk, Todd Jensvold, and MGL2316 Protective Species Observers
#nsffunded #UNOLS #OBSIC #WHOI #Scripps #GEOMAR #ocean #research #seismology #geosciences #earthquakes #PuertoRicoTrench #shortperiod_obs #activesource_obs
OBSIC recently deployed and recovered three different types of short period instruments, a collaboration of @whoi.ocean, @scripps_ocean, and @geomarkiel on the #RVMarcusGLangseth for Chief Scientist Pablo Canales’ active source cruise off Puerto Rico.
📸: Arne Schwenk, Todd Jensvold, and MGL2316 Protective Species Observers
#nsffunded #UNOLS #OBSIC #WHOI #Scripps #GEOMAR #ocean #research #seismology #geosciences #earthquakes #PuertoRicoTrench #shortperiod_obs #activesource_obs
Recently we spent two days tank testing our newest #nsffunded broadband instrument, Manta, at #whoi_avast. This testing allows us to view the behavior of the #nanometrics sensor when released as it would be on the seafloor. Engineers were able to collect valuable information and make modifications prior to building the rest of the fleet.
We are fortunate to have access to these types of facilities at @whoi.ocean.
📸📹: OBSIC, WHOI
@nsfgov #OBSIC #WHOI #oceanbottomseismometer #technology #manta_obs
Recently we spent two days tank testing our newest #nsffunded broadband instrument, Manta, at #whoi_avast. This testing allows us to view the behavior of the #nanometrics sensor when released as it would be on the seafloor. Engineers were able to collect valuable information and make modifications prior to building the rest of the fleet.
We are fortunate to have access to these types of facilities at @whoi.ocean.
📸📹: OBSIC, WHOI
@nsfgov #OBSIC #WHOI #oceanbottomseismometer #technology #manta_obs
@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
#nsffunded @unols_org #OBSIC #oceanbottomseismometer #WHOI #UNOLS #technology
@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
#nsffunded @unols_org #OBSIC #oceanbottomseismometer #WHOI #UNOLS #technology
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
#NSFfunded #OBSIC #WHOI #UNOLS #Scripps #RVMarcusGLangseth #seismology #protectedspeciesobserver #tradition #floatart
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
#NSFfunded #OBSIC #WHOI #UNOLS #Scripps #RVMarcusGLangseth #seismology #protectedspeciesobserver #tradition #floatart
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
@nsfgov @columbialamontearth @unols_org @scripps_ocean @whoi.ocean
#NSFfunded #OBSIC #WHOI #UNOLS #Scripps #ocean #research #RVMarcusGLangseth #seismology #geosciences #earthquakes #BlakePlateau #HurricaneFranklin #HurricaneIdalia #HurricaneLee
#UNOLSTechPool #MATEIntership
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
@nsfgov @columbialamontearth @unols_org @scripps_ocean @whoi.ocean
#NSFfunded #OBSIC #WHOI #UNOLS #Scripps #ocean #research #RVMarcusGLangseth #seismology #geosciences #earthquakes #BlakePlateau #HurricaneFranklin #HurricaneIdalia #HurricaneLee
#UNOLSTechPool #MATEIntership
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
#NSFfunded #WHOI #STEM #ocean #research #rvsallyride #seismology #earthquakes #obsic #axialseamount
#deepseavolcano #seamount
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
#NSFfunded #WHOI #STEM #ocean #research #rvsallyride #seismology #earthquakes #obsic #axialseamount
#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)
#NSFfunded #WHOI #STEM #ocean #research #rvsallyride #seismology #earthquakes #obsic
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)
#NSFfunded #WHOI #STEM #ocean #research #rvsallyride #seismology #earthquakes #obsic
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)
#NSFfunded #WHOI #STEM #ocean #research #rvsallyride #seismology #earthquakes #obsic #axialseamount @uppercapetech
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)
#NSFfunded #WHOI #STEM #ocean #research #rvsallyride #seismology #earthquakes #obsic #axialseamount @uppercapetech
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