A Little Bit of Everything
This cruise offered a little bit of everything: good weather, bad weather, smoothly functioning equipment, everything going nicely - and then unforeseen failures, technical “work-arounds”...
MoreLet’s Dance!
As Remotely Operated Vehicle SuBastian begins its ascent back to R/V Falkor's aft deck, scientists leave the Control Room and stretch their legs for the...
MoreWrap Up Video – Deep Coral Diversity at Emperor Seamounts
"There is all kind of biodiversity down there that we don't know about." In the #DeepSeaDiveristy wrap up video, scientists and researchers share what they...
MoreArtist-At-Sea ~ Deep Coral Diversity at Emperor Seamounts
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the projects and work by Artist-At-Sea Christine Lee as she works with 3D printing, sewing, and more while on board...
MoreWeek 03 Update – Deep Coral Diversity at Emperor Seamounts
"The shape of the seafloor affects how water moves over it, and that impacts what animals are going to live there. The environment, the topography,...
MoreTiny But Mighty
Marine microbes (bacteria, archaea, and viruses) are tiny. They are less than one-hundredth the width of a human hair—too small to see with the unaided...
MoreFrom Mesocale to Naked Eye
We have passed the halfway mark of our cruise’s journey having sailed over 3,200 nautical miles during the past eighteen days. The Schmidt Ocean Institute’s...
MoreThe Ocean is Radioactive
On Friday, March 11, 2011, a colossal 9.1Mw earthquake stroke the coast of Japan. It It was the fourth most powerful earthquake since modern record-keeping...
MoreWeek 02 Update – Deep Coral Diversity at Emperor Seamounts
Take a journey from the dawn of seafloor discovery to today's cutting edge technology in this week's update. With insights into multibeam sonar and remotely...
MoreBlue Review
Discovering the pattern language to connect seemingly disparate elements and systems is the common thread within the art and design-based work I create. I use...
MoreAsking Questions, Chasing Answers
I am very excited to be part of the science team on the R/V Falkor heading towards the remote Emperor Seamount Chain, for both professional...
MoreThe History of Water
Some time ago, there were aspects of Brendan Roark's PhD project that were not going as planned. One day, he ran into a professor at...
MoreThe Thrill of Exploration and Discovery
How does a month-long voyage to the middle of the North Pacific Ocean sound? Spending thirty days on a ship with shared living spaces and...
MoreWeek 01 Update – Deep Coral Diversity at Emperor Seamounts
In the Northern Pacific, the deep corals along the Aleutian Ridge are completely different from the corals along the Hawaiian Ridge, and the researchers on...
MoreThe Emperor Seamounts: Their History and Their Names
The seamount chain now known as the Emperor Seamounts was first named the Northwest Pacific Ridge by Professor Tayama of Tohoku University in 1952 for...
MoreFive Things To Know About This Expedition
Falkor will spend sixteen very intense days mapping and exploring seven of the Emperor Seamounts, an ambitious goal that requires covering a long distance over...
MoreAlmost Alien
The deep sea. Dark. Silent. Unless of course there is a Remotely Operated Vehicle streaming the excited "oohs" and "aahs" of scientists seeing their favorite...
MoreFrom Mountain to Mountain
Many decades ago, a young Les Watling walked on the mountains of his native Canada, collecting ancient fossils weekend after weekend. The fossils represented all...
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