EPR-950 Hydrothermal - 2022
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Operating area: EPR 950N East Pacific Rise axis near 9 50'N and 104 16'W
Route: Puntarenas (Puntarenas) - Costa Rica → Puntarenas (Puntarenas) - Costa Rica
Jan 7 – Feb 1, 202325 days at seaactual: departed Jan 7, 2023, arrived Feb 1, 2023
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Atlantis
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Larvae-Biolfilm-Spring — EPR Well visited 9deg 50' N vent fields on the East Pacific Rise, former RIDGE2000 Integrated Study Site.EPR-950 Hydrothermal - 2022 +1 — EPR 950N East Pacific Rise axis near 9 50'N and 104 16'WOMZ rates and cells — ENTP OMZ Eastern North Tropical Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone off Baja Mexico
Projects aboard (2)
EPR-950 Hydrothermal - 2022
Collaborative Research: Monitoring hydrothermal fluid origin, crustal permeability and seafloor morphology in preparation for the next volcanic eruption at the East Pacific Rise axis, 9° 45’-53’N NSF/OCE/MGG - 1949485 - Funded
People aboard
EPR-950 Hydrothermal - 2022
- Daniel Fornari · Principal investigator
ALVIN Eng Dives 2023 - Fornari EPR
- Bruce Strickrott · Chief scientist
- Bruce Strickrott · Principal investigator
Party size: 24
Estimated vacant berths: 13
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Echosounder, 12kHz
- Echosounder, 3.5kHz CHIRP
- Gravimeter
- Multibeam - Deep Water (EM122, EM124)
- Ultra-Short Base-Line Acoustic Navigation System
Pooled / portable
- CTD
- XBT
- TowCam
- Ocean Bottom Seismometers - Other
- WHOI MISO Camera System
Science party brings
- Portable Laboratory Vans/Containers - Science Supplied
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code AT50-07 · MFP references 21/128, 21/1217 · synced Sep 30, 2026