Sr. Thesis cruise 2025
Completed
Planned route: 16 segments · ~7 days steaming · 14 stations
Operating area: Western Tropical Pacific
Route: Apra (Agana) - Guam → Apra (Agana) - Guam
Project aboard
In this 3-quarter long series of courses (OCEAN 443, 444 and 445), students are closely mentored by a faculty team to design, execute and communicate an original research project on a topic of their own choosing. This option usually included senior cruise on our research vessel, the R/V Thompson somewhere in the world's ocean. The Bachelor's of Science requires these courses. The Bachelor's of Arts does not.
People aboard
- Ginger Armbrust · Chief scientist
- Mark Warner · Principal investigator
- Stefani Martynenko · Chief scientist
Party size: 22
Estimated vacant berths: 13
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Overboarding Cable - Copper Conductor(s)
- Crane
- Stern A-Frame
- Navigation - Heading/Position
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Underway Seawater System
- pCO2
- Meteorological Data
- Echosounder, 3.5kHz CHIRP
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 500-750m (e.g. 75kHz)
- Multibeam - Mid-Water (EM302/304)
Pooled / portable
- CTD
- Grab Sampler
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code TN-440 Sr. Thesis · MFP reference 24/4598 · synced Sep 24, 2026