A Greater Understanding
What is there left to say? The blogs that have been written about this cruise cover the breadth and depth of this amazing expedition. If...
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SCOPE / Elisha Wood-Charlson
Technology, Courage, and Next Steps
Now that I have recovered from lack of sleep, two weeks of intense sampling, and can feel the stable earth under my feet, I would...
MoreWrapping Up the #MicrobeEddyBots Expedition ~ Week 04 Video
"Whenever you are able to achieve something that you couldn't before, it always gives you hope for the future." More than a decade went into...
MoreAn Ocean’s Breath
There are only a few places in the ocean where the dynamics of the microbial organisms are so tightly coupled that they give rise to...
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SOI / Thom Hoffman
How To Spy On Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria
As we sail through the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG), we are surrounded by clear, blue water. Sunlight can penetrate beyond 100 meters in this...
MorePumping Iron
When I am out at sea and have just finished a long day of collecting seawater samples, my favorite comfort food is a big bowl...
MoreCan’t Stop Moving
I really can’t stop moving. There are two reasons for this. One is that I am on a ship. The other is that I am...
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Elisa Malinverno / Angelicque White
Microbes and Machines ~ Week 03 Video
"These eddy fields are fantastic natural laboratories. They are large enough that we are able to conduct simultaneous measurements using autonomous vehicles, profiling floats, and...
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SOI / Thom Hoffman
My New Colleague Is a Robot
It is an amazing sight to see: water 360 degrees around you and nothing else. However, taking repetitive measurements every day in the middle of...
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SOI / Thom Hoffman
Rhythm in the Eddy
It is midnight, and the ship’s lights are dimmed to limit interference with some extremely light-sensitive instruments. Fernanda Henderikx and Mathilde Dugenne lower an optical...
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SOI / Thom Hoffman
Behind the MicrobeEddyBots
The ocean is full of relatively small events that happen over a short period of time. To help scientists maintain a more persistent observing presence...
MoreThe ‘Bots are Back! ~ Week 2 Video
Drama and suspense are not generally the first things people think of when oceanic research is discussed, but second week of the #MicrobeEddyBots research cruise provided...
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SOI / Thom Hoffman
Underway CTD’s – The Struggle is ‘Reel’
Although our expensive new robots can cruise underwater for days at a time, setting them up for their most scientifically valuable missions begins with compiling...
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Elisha M Wood-Charlson, University of Hawaii
Sampling Eddies
Nearly two weeks into the expedition, our cruise has achieved a number of impressive successes already: chasing the eddy, characterizing it, and tracking its features....
MoreTracking Eddies
Once the LRAUVs Opah and Aku rendezvoused with the Falkor in the center of the eddy, it was time to switch them from survey mode...
MoreAutonomous Vehicles: The Future of Eddy Exploration ~ Week 1 Video
Scientists and engineers from the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) are exploring eddy features...
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SOI / Thom Hoffman
Characterizing Eddies
From the heart of the cyclonic eddy, we turned the Falkor north and cruised to its edge. We found the counterclockwise spinning cyclonic eddy. Now...
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SOI / Elisha M Wood-Charlson
Chasing Eddies
After a bumpy night of sailing from Kahe (West O‘ahu) to the south of O’ahu and Moloka‘i, avoiding [most of] the roughest seas in the...
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Elisha M Wood-Charlson, University of Hawaii
Setting Off to Explore Eddies
Aloha from the Pacific Ocean! For the next month, we will be using some amazing autonomous robots to explore an ocean eddy in never before...
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