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I built up and sculpted the valleys and ridges of the ocean floor, carefully painted its depths, poured resin and acrylic, and let the rocking ship shift the resin until it cured, But as I continued to build up the layers, I started to feel a little sad. The beauty beneath the resin that I … Continued
Data collection happens at sea, but data processing often happens after the ship is back in port, the crew has disembarked, and the equipment offloaded. Therefore, many ocean-science discoveries happen on land, when it is actually too late to pursue them (until the next expedition). On this cruise, because researchers are working on processing the … Continued
The Adaptive Robotics research cruise has been great. The science team and crew have outdone themselves and the dataset collected is one of the most impressive we have ever generated. The weather and good fortune also played their part in what has been both an enjoyable and highly productive expedition on-board the R/V Falkor. Adaptive … Continued
This mission has taken me out of my depth, both personally and professionally. I’m a Computer Scientist, less than a year into my PhD at the University of Southampton. My job back on land is to develop new ways of automatically summarizing the information available in images gathered on an AUV dive, and while this … Continued
Research expeditions are like marathons. Preparation for them is exhaustive and requires extremely disciplined individuals following a careful schedule in order to reach their goals. Once the day arrives, determination is key and keeping the pace up is fundamental. Yet ensuring the success of an expedition goes far beyond the effort that scientists and experts … Continued
The #AdaptiveRobotics expedition is different from many research cruises in that the results will not simply be data such as samples, maps, or measurements. Instead, the larger goal is to demonstrate how large volumes of information can be efficiently viewed and interpreted as part of a daily operational workflow, allowing for better informed decision-making and increasing the … Continued
A few days ago we invited anyone who was interested to ask Principal Investigator Dr Blair Thornton (University of Southampton) and the international engineering team on Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor questions about underwater robotics and our current expedition. The experts onboard are conducting research on dynamically changing environments like cold seeps with four different … Continued
For the first time, R/V Falkor had more artists than scientists aboard for an expedition! Find out more about this special research cruise, in which six artists and two students worked side-by-side with researchers and crew, mapping the Seeping Cascadia Margin.
