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This week’s #HuntingBubbles video explains and explores the cutting-edge technology being used on the expedition, including a Mass Spectrometer, Laser Spectrometer, and Stereoscopic High-Definition, High-Speed Camera. Find out how these tools work and what they are revealing to researchers about deep-sea methane seeps.
Many individuals are understandably oblivious to the resources and the teeming life contained below the surface of the ocean. Submarine pilots, marine biologists, and the like are the exception, but the folks who live in landlocked states only know from what they learned in school (and for some that was a long time ago). A disastrous blowout … Continued
Tasso de Figueiredo Borges de Sousa, J. (2018). Mobile connectivity and mobile locality in networked vehicle systems: are we missing something? Oral Presentation at Control 2018, Sheffield, UK.
Rahlff, J., Ribas-Ribas, M., Brown, S., Mustaffa, N., Renz, J., Peck, M., Bird, K., Cunliffe, M., Melkonian, K., and Zappa, C. (2018). Blue pigmentation of neustonic copepods benefits exploitation of a prey-rich niche at the air-sea boundary. Scientific Reports, 8, 11510. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-29869-7.
Chris McRaven recently joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a research engineer. His interests are in developing instrumentation for imaging, chemical sensing, and communications. His previous experience includes precision spectroscopy using femtosecond lasers and designing microscopes for neuroscience. Chris completed a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Oklahoma. He will be supporting the … Continued
It has been nearly a month since our 6-day transit aboard the R/V Falkor, mapping the Cascadia Margin and recording methane seeps. Since returning back to Paris, I have watched my little studio flat transform into a creative sanctuary of color, as I fill it with an increasing number of paintings inspired by the experience and … Continued
At first glance, my day-to-day routine onboard the Falkor does not appear especially scientific in nature. Every morning, with the reflection of the sun glistening on a blanket of calm ocean waters, I pump roughly 2.5 gallons of water through a hole with a diameter about 10 times smaller than that of a human hair. … Continued
Seafloor methane emissions have been documented for several decades, with newer evidence suggesting that methane bubble plumes from the deep sea are far more numerous than previously assumed. However, the physical, chemical and biological processes that dictate exactly how this methane is transferred into the ocean, or in some cases possibly even directly into the … Continued
My studio back at home feels very still and hopeful after a richly engaging week on Falkor. I can see I will need to settle and focus before being able to channel the big energy and ideas that were the staples of our week on board ship. It was a very dense experience of insightful … Continued
Researchers aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor used autonomous underwater robots, along with the Institute’s remotely operated vehicle (ROV) SuBastian, to acquire 1.3 million high resolution images of the seafloor at Hydrate Ridge, composing them into the largest known high resolution color 3D model of the seafloor. Using unsupervised clustering algorithms, they identified dynamic … Continued
