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- Beth sets up a GPS receiver to measure crustal strain from subduction.
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- A GPS receiver basks in the sun along the Oregon coast.
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- Students dig a hole for a seismic station in eastern Oregon.
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- Remote seismic stations are powered by solar panels.
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- Pat and Pam complete a site installation.
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- Haiying configures the electronics on a data logger.
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- View of a typical seismometer.
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- Prof Weldon shows off one of his tidal gauges used to measure the long-term uplift rate along the Oregon coast.
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- The Norwegian research vessel the Hakon Mosby.
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- Ship crew prepare to deploy ocean bottom seismometers.
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- An ocean bottom seismometer prepares to get wet.
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- The crew deploy an airgun which will be towed behind the ship. The airgun will emit a signal which the seismometers will record.
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- Prof Hooft tracks the progress of a robotic submersible at sea.
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- Ship crew wait on deck for an instrument to return. The high-resolution bottom mapping instrument ABE is on-deck. This flies a pre-programed path near the seafloor.
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- A seismic instrument returns to the surface. Now the crew must get it onboard.
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- Prof Rempel identifies some ablation morphologies (dirt cones and sun cups) on a snow field in the Oregon Cascades.
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- CO2 concentration is measured in a vent on the flanks of a volcano in the Cascades. No elevated gas levels were observed.
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- Rempel’s group studies the migration of water through premelted films which is responsible for frost cracking.
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- Recovery of an elevator along the Endeavour segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. The elevators are used to transport seismometer packages and other equipment to and from the seafloor.
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- ROV Tiburon in the bay of the Western Flyer. Tiburon was used to deploy and recover ocean bottom seismometers.
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- Tiburon being deployed through the moon pool of the Western Flyer.
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- Graduate student Troy Durant getting his chance to pilot Tiburon. Wreck it and you are in deep debt…
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- Galapagos archipelago from space.
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- Cinder cone on Pinta island, Galapagos archipelago. One of the sites of a broadband seismometer deployment used in our study of the Galapagos hotspot.
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- Installed broadband seismometer site near Volcan Wolf, Isla Isabella, Galapagos.
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- Peter Burkett of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, servicing a site.
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- In route between sites in the Galapagos. Yet another perfect day.
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- Graduate student Darwin Villagomez during field operations in the Galapagos. Darwin is studying the upper mantle structure beneath the hotspot.
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- Peter Burkett and Darwin Villagomez in the Galapagos.
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- R/V Beagle, one of the boats we used. This one is operated by the Charles Darwin Research Station in Puerto Ayora.
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- Damn, that looks like good data! Peter Burkett’s father, Peter Burkett and graduate student Darwin Villagomez.
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- Working in the Galapagos is great fun, but can be dangerous. The toll: one broken bone and many cuts from lava.
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- Enjoying the fruits of labor.
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- Many of our sites in the Galapagos were in remote locations. Obviously, this one is not!