MIST Expedition

MIST Expedition alumnus, Soli Garcia, and his co-authors have their work represented in a competition put on by the NASA Earth Observatory. Tournament Earth 4.0 pits scientific images in a head-to-head bracket. Soli's work is entered as " #2 - Seafloor Features Are Revealed by the Gravity Field." The use of gravity and multibeam sonar, as used on the MIST Expedition, are complementary methods for mapping the seafloor.

Here's hoping for lot's of votes for Soli.

Hey, a photo from the MIST Expedition is in the running for inclusion in the Scripps 2015 Science Calendar!

A core liner is ready to be deployed to the seafloor for sediment sampling. This
photo was taken on the R/V Roger Revelle during a UC Ship Funds cruise led by
Diego Melgar and other SIO graduate students over the Ninety East Ridge in the
Indian Ocean. Photo: Emmanuel S. Garcia, graduate student

Casting About http://wp.me/p49kkr-6t

Casting About Hello Fellow MIST-ery Men, Women and Children, We are still steaming towards Taiwan at a steady 10 knots. This has been a long transit (9 days so far), so we have been taking turns presenting our research every night. We have … Continue… [ 1326 more words. ]

Under Pressure http://wp.me/p49kkr-6c

Under Pressure Hello Fellow MIST-chief Makers, The science portion of the cruise wrapped up a couple days ago, and we have all been resting and catching up on some well-deserved sleep. We are now in transit, heading for our final destination of … Continue reading… [ 705 more words. ]

Tsunami day - a memory from Sri Lanka http://wp.me/p49kkr-5X

Tsunami day - a memory from Sri Lanka Imagine, its 4:30am, 26th December and you wake up on the floor in a fisherman’s house on the Sri Lankan coast. It is still pitch black, just candles lighten up the room. Smell of the smoke of burning wood comes … Continue reading → [ 775 more words. ]

While the science team was out collecting samples of the ocean bottom, our mascot Albert was captured by a cup. When we discovered this crime we attached the kidnaping cup to the CTD and set it down to more than 4km below the surface! Check back to find out what happens to the cup.

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A brief history of underwater acoustics: Part I http://wp.me/p49kkr-5E

A brief history of underwater acoustics: Part I It’s amazing to think that while we can image individual stars and planets within galaxies millions of light years away (one light year equals x kilometers), we have only recently began imaging the topography of the seafloor that makes up ……

Paleoclimatologists can't see http://wp.me/p49kkr-5t

Paleoclimatologists can't see Without a little geophysics that is. The ocean is a big place. How do you know where to core? Here are three sites we imaged, one of them yielded our longest core yet. Which one do you think it was? … Continue reading → [ 175 more words. ]