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When I landed in Pohnpei, Micronesia for the Ontong Java expedition I was greeted by the local customs authorities in the airport.

This morning at 0900, after two full days of loading and prep, Falkor slipped the dock and headed north out of Nanaimo into the central Strait of Georgia. Just north of the Departure Bay – Horseshoe Bay ferry route that runs from Nanaimo to toward Vancouver, the ship parked for some critical equipment tests. The … Continued

Being an Englishman, my knowledge of Thanksgiving is limited to the following: you eat a lot of food, catch up with family, there are yams (though I’m not sure what they are) and a turkey gets pardoned by the President of the USA. So I’m obviously extremely excited to hear I’ll be experiencing my first … Continued

My name is Kyra, and I was chosen as the student opportunities participant for the “Listening For Cryptic Whales Species” cruise. Being a recent graduate from Hawaii Pacific University, this was a huge opportunity for me. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Marine Biology, so this specific cruise was perfectly placed for my main … Continued

Scientists onboard R/V Falkor are gathering an enormous amount of water samples in order to decipher how Oxygen Minimum Zones in our Tropical Pacific work, as well as understanding how their expansion might shape our planet’s future. How do they collect the samples? In our video of the #LifeWoO2 expedition, Chief Scientist Mak Saito and … Continued

As the old saying goes, “Where there is smoke, there is fire.” This is the approach researchers on R/V Falkor are using: searching for particles and chemical signals as tracers of plumes. The chemistry of seawater around volcanoes is different from that of the rest of the ocean. When the team runs into these differences over … Continued

Hello there.  Did you miss me?  I’m afraid I have been feeling rather disoriented. Last night (or was it the night before) I was having a weird dream – I had got up in the middle of the night for a Nereus launch but then the dive went wrong and the vehicle had to come … Continued

This time-lapse video depicts operation at one station illustrating the amount of activity and people involved in 24 hours of station work. Filmed over a continuous 24 hour period this short video should help explain why after almost a month at sea, we have over 12 terrabytes of data! The scientists and crew onboard Falkor have been working … Continued

My name is Caleb Hsu, and I am the Student Opportunity Participant for the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s first research cruise of 2016. As part of the program, I will be sharing my thoughts and reflections each week as I experience and learn more about the science, technology, and people onboard this wonderful vessel. I became … Continued

The sea is constantly changing, and today, it was a shift toward the rough side, as the forecast for gale force winds proved accurate. Work continues, but with a few further shifts to plans. Until today, seas had been calm, making it easy to climb the four decks up to the observation platform to watch … Continued