ROPOS Team Awarded the J. P. Tully Medal of Oceanography June 5, 2024 On June 5, 2024, the ROPOS At-Sea Team was announced as the 2023 winner of the prestigious J. P. Tully Medal of Oceanography from the Canadian Meteorology and Oceanography Society (CMOS)! The award recognizes any person whose… Read More

Dalhousie, NOAA and DFO’s CroCHEt Expedition R/V Henry B. Bigelow July 15 – August 2, 2024 From July 15 – August 2, 2024, 6 CSSF team members supported Dalhousie University, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) aboard the R/V Henry B. Bigelow for the Cross-border… Read More

KIOST’s 2023 Indian Ocean Expedition R/V Isabu March 18 – May 10, 2023 From March 18 – May 10, 2023, 6 CSSF team members supported the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), which works in partnership with the International Seabed Authority (ISA). The science team’s focus was to conduct research… Read More

NEPDEP 2024 Expedition CCGS John P. Tully August 12 – September 2, 2024 From August 12 – September 2, 2024, 6 CSSF team members supported Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Pacific Region (DFO Pacific) aboard the CCGS John P. Tully for the Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Exploration Project’s (NEPDEP) 2024 expedition. The focus of… Read More

NEPDEP 2023 Expedition CCGS John P. Tully May 28 – June 12, 2023 On May 28, 2023, seven Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility team members assisted scientists from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Region in the exploration of seamounts, hydrothermal vents and cold seeps off the coast of Vancouver… Read More

BGR INDEX2023 Expedition R/V Sonne September 29 – November 20, 2023 From September 29 – November 20, 2023, 6 CSSF team members supported the INDEX2023 ship expedition of the Germany’s Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR; Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources) in the Central Indian Ocean. The focus of this… Read More

NSF VISIONS ‘22 Expedition R/V Thomas G. Thompson August 9 – September 15, 2022 From August 9 – September 15, 2022, 8 CSSF team members performed maintenance and installation on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Ocean Observatories Initiative’s (OOI) Regional Cabled Array (RCA) for the University of Washington (UW) aboard the UW’s… Read More

NSF-OOI RCA and ROPOS Long-Term International Collaboration December 8, 2022 The National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative’s Regional Cabled Array (NSF-OOI RCA) is an underwater cabled observatory that extends 480 km off the coast of Newport, Oregon, USA and is run by the University of Washington’s (UW) School of Oceanography… Read More