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In September of 2024, Artist-at-Sea Jill Pelto joined the Fire & Ice: Volcanic & Glacial Interaction expedition led by Dr. Sebastian Watt, University of Birmingham, UK. Pelto is an artist and science communicator based in Washington. She was intrigued by the opportunity to study the underwater effects of a 2008 volcanic eruption that dramatically transformed the landscape and lives of the people of Chaitén, Chile.
2025 – The Southern Atlantic In 2025, our scientific expeditions take us further into the Southern Atlantic Ocean, one of the least explored places on Earth. Scientists from all over the world will document biodiversity, study hazards such as earthquakes and volcanoes, and map seafloor features. Who knows what they will find? Follow our journey … Continued
The 25-day Reef Connections expedition in the Timor Sea has just completed. Its successful conclusion marks the third cruise this year to use Falkor’s high performance supercomputer. In January, Schmidt Ocean Institute installed a cluster of interconnected high-performance computers on board Falkor, making her the first research vessel with a supercomputing system available to scientists … Continued
Sofia P. Ramalho is a Junior Researcher at the Department of Biology and Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) at the University of Aveiro (Portugal). Her research is focused on the study of the benthic diversity and ecosystem functioning in various deep-sea habitats (including cold seeps, submarine canyons and abyssal plains). She is also … Continued
Claudia Morales Garrido is a master’s student in Oceanography at the University of Valparaíso and the Catholic University of Valparaíso, supervised by Dr. Manuel Castillo. At the same time, she is part of the Laboratory of Physical and Satellite Oceanography (LOFISAT) at the University of Valparaíso as a data analysis technician for oceanographic and satellite … Continued
Science at sea is, above all else, a team effort. Scientific activities performed on Falkor require the ship’s crew and science party to work hand-in-glove; from ROV dives to CTD casts to work boat operations, every task is carefully choreographed to ensure objectives are met effectively, efficiently, and safely. And like a good dance routine, … Continued
There are a number of ways to present or visualize oceanographic data. When an instrument like the CTD is lowered to the bottom, it provides an instantaneous picture of all the water properties at the drop site. Similarly, when we lower the turbulence probe (TurboMAP) it provides a picture of ocean turbulence properties over depth … Continued
2024 – The Southeast Pacific The Southeast Pacific Basin, off South America, is one of the most tectonically active areas in the Pacific Ocean. The Peru-Chile Subduction Zone stirs off the continental shelf, where the Nazca tectonic plate dives under the South America plate, forming volcanoes and the 8000-meter-deep Peru-Chile trench. Wind patterns along the … Continued
Ocean Rising Brings High Fashion to Sea Ocean Rising is an initiative of SOI and Nekton to deepen people’s relationship with the Ocean by galvanizing connections and tangible initiatives within significant sections of global culture from the arts, fashion, sport, music, gaming, film, literature, and food amongst others. Ocean Rising is currently focused on music … Continued
Today we start mapping the pathway between the surrounding ocean and the amazing coral population of the Scott Reef system. Due to the lack of rainfall and strong heating in the region, the ocean has a very strong vertical temperature gradient – as much as 30 °C at the surface, and then colder as you … Continued
