LIBS on Jason (year 2 of 2)
Completed
Planned route: 2 segments · ~12 days steaming · 1 station
Operating area: Vent fields at Juan de Fuca Ridge
Route: San Diego (California) - United States → Balboa - Panama
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Projects aboard (4)
LIBS on Jason (year 2 of 2)
This project supports the test deployment of a completed laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) system at seafloor hydrothermal vents using the remotely operated vehicle Jason as the support platform. Jason serves to align and orient the LIBS system using a three degree-of-freedom mechanical platform, and also provides high data rate bidirectional communication with the spectrometer. The testing will be based on two scientific use cases that are highly relevant to hydrothermal vents in a generic (i.e., not site specific) sense: the study of near-critical behavior of vent fluids and understanding chemical variability over a tidal cycle. Upon validation, the LIBS system will be made available to the hydrothermal vent science community.
People aboard
LIBS on Jason (year 2 of 2)
- Alan Chave · Principal investigator
EPR 9°N Eruption 2025 RAPID
- Jason Brent Sylvan · Principal investigator
- Anna Michel · Chief scientist
- Amanda Achberger · Chief scientist
- Lauren Mullineaux · Chief scientist
Silverfish Deployment
- Alyssa Gurkas · Principal investigator
- Alan Chave · Chief scientist
RAPID: EPR Eruption 2025
- Jill McDermott · Principal investigator
- Alan Chave · Chief scientist
Party size: 5
Estimated vacant berths: 32
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Crane
- Navigation - Heading/Position
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Meteorological Data
- Multibeam - Deep Water (EM122, EM124)
- Stern A-Frame
- Navigation - Heading/Position
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Meteorological Data
- Ultra-Short Base-Line Acoustic Navigation System
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Overboarding Cable - Fiber Optic
- Crane
- Navigation - Heading/Position
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Underway Seawater System
- Meteorological Data
- Echosounder, 12kHz
- Echosounder, 3.5kHz CHIRP
- Pinger, 12kHz
- ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 500-750m (e.g. 75kHz)
- Multibeam - Deep Water (EM122, EM124)
- Biological multi-frequency echosounder - EK80
- Ultra-Short Base-Line Acoustic Navigation System
- Science (Wave/Ice) Radar
Pooled / portable
- CTD
- WHOI MISO Camera System
- McLane WTS-LV
- Portable Laboratory Van(s) - NSF Van Pool
- CTD
- XBT
- TowCam
- Ocean Bottom Seismometers - Other
- Winch Pool Portable Winch
- WHOI MISO Camera System
Science party brings
- Science-provided vans
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code AT50-45_Chave & Co · MFP references 21/222, 25/6321, 25/6606, 25/6322 · synced Sep 30, 2026