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Peter Vrolijk is a scientist from New Mexico Tech and is retired from ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company. Dr. Vrolijk received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) in 1987 studying fluid flow and earthquake processes in subduction zones. His work encompasses elements of structural geology, sedimentology, geomechanics, and geochemistry to gain insight into … Continued
For an English version of the blog, please click here. Mi nombre es Néstor Ramírez, soy un ingeniero geológico que ha estado trabajando en geología marina durante 8 años, ¡pero en tierra! Siempre he trabajado con los datos recopilados en las profundidades del océano por otras personas. Proceso y analizo los datos para construir modelos que … Continued
Para una versión Español del este blog, por favor haga clic aquí. My name is Néstor Ramírez – I am a geological engineer who has been working on marine geology for 8 years, but on land! I have always worked with someone else’s data collected from the deep ocean. I process and analyze the data to … Continued
For an English version of the blog, please click here. Hace poco más de un día que Falkor zarpó de San Diego, California, y es hora de trabajar. Tanto el AUV D Allan B como el ROV SuBastian han tocado el agua en sus pruebas, y sus sistemas están listos. Todavía hay algunos días de … Continued
Para una versión Español del este blog, por favor haga clic aquí. It has barely been a day since Falkor set sail from San Diego in California, and it is time to get to work. Both the AUV D Allan B and ROV SuBastian have been in the water for tests, proving their systems are … Continued
Dave Clague is a marine geologist who studies volcanoes, both on land and under the sea. He is a senior research scientist at MBARI, where he has worked for 22 years. He is also a veteran of 65 oceanographic cruises, with about 2/3 of them using manned submersibles or remotely operated vehicles to observe volcanic … Continued
In 2015, new hydrothermal vents were discovered in the Gulf of California during a research cruise led by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). New vents are always an exciting find, but this new Auka vent field boasts a particularly intriguing combination of carbonate chimneys, hydrothermal petroleum, diverse vent fauna, and a deep ocean setting … Continued
Eric Martin is an Electrical Engineer, visiting the Falkor from the Monterey Bay Research Institute. Aboard this expedition, he will be focused on operation the unique mapping payload that will be surveying the hydrothermal vent fields. In this role, he will leverage his experience in survey operations, system controls and ROV engineering. Prior to this … Continued
David Caress is the Principal Engineer for Seafloor Mapping at MBARI. He studied marine geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and then worked as a research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and as a geophysicist at SeaBeam Instruments and Science Applications International Corporation. Since 1993, he has been the principal … Continued
Green, R., Jones, N., Rayson, M., Lowe, R., Bluteau, C., and Ivey, G. (2018). Nutrient Fluxes into an Isolated Coral Reef Atoll by Tidally Driven Internal Bores. Limnol Oceanogr., doi:10.1002/lno.11051
