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Virtual Swag – Winter 2023 Click through to get your virtual swag bag including: Recipes from the Galley —Check out these recipes from our R/V Falkor (too) chefs: Lemon Saffron & Pistachio Cake Falkor Banana Bread Hit the beach with SOI Shoreside Staff while listening to artists like the Grateful Dead and Brandi Carlile. This … Continued

SOI Expeditions Take a Deep Dive in the New SubROV Video Game A new simulation game based on real-life ROV dive missions, SubROV, was released in December in collaboration with SOI. The game, developed by sqr3lab, puts players behind the control panel of an ROV to survey aquatic life, find shipwrecks, and more. Two of … Continued

Four New Black Coral Species Described Following R/V Falkor Expedition Four new species of black corals from the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, collected during R/V Falkor’s 2020 expeditions, Seamounts, Canyons, and Coral Reefs of the Coral Sea and Northern Depths of the Great Barrier Reef, were recently described by Jeremy Horowitz of the … Continued

SOI Artist-at-Sea Continues to Spotlight Mesophotic Corals Down Under Past Artist-at-Sea Ellie Hannon and multimedia correspondent Conor Ashleigh debuted an immersive installation of paintings, short films, and ceramics at the Half-light exhibit at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery in NSW, Australia, from October to December 2022. The exhibit was based on their time on R/V … Continued

Seabed 2030: Revealing the Ocean Floor SOI first announced its partnership with The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project in October 2019. This is a large international effort to produce a complete and high-resolution baseline seafloor map by 2030 and to date, SOI has contributed over 840,000 km2 to the GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the … Continued

SOI Holds Open Ocean Data Workshop: Credit where Credit is Due at Ditchley On October 6th and 7th of last year, SOI hosted the Credit where Credit is Due; Authorship of Open Ocean Data workshop at Ditchley Park in England. The discussion focused on identifying actionable solutions to shift values, merit, and authorship to better … Continued

Quarterly Chronicles of the Schmidt Ocean Institute – Chapter 3 Winter 2023 Progress Report Workshop Spotlight Partner Spotlight Artist’s Corner Science & Data Strides SOI Imagery in the Open Virtual Swag In the News Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter

Return of the Dragon: Falkor (too) ’s Inaugural Expedition and Launch Campaign On March 3rd, our never-ending journey continued as R/V Falkor (too) set sail on its inaugural science expedition leaving Puerto Rico and heading to one of the world’s most extensive underwater mountain chains—the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The expedition is led by Dr. David Butterfield, … Continued

Quarterly Chronicles of the Schmidt Ocean Institute – Chapter 2 Fall 2022 Introduction Chapter Too Workshop Spotlight SOI Progress Report Artist’s Corner Science & Data Strides SOI Imagery in the Open Digital Swag In the News Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter

2023 – The Return of the Luck Dragon In Search of Hydrothermal Lost Cities Mid-Atlantic Ridge March On its inaugural expedition, Falkor (too) will head to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. In 2000, scientists found a hydrothermal vent system on the Atlantis Massif unlike any seen before. Ghostly towers made of limestone sprang from the seafloor, spewing clear liquid, … Continued