Thank you thank you thank you


On June 1, we arrived in port in Kodiak, Alaska, marking the end of our expedition. Kodiak greeted us with spectacular vistas of mountains and lush green hills. It’s not called the Emerald Isle for nothing!  

Views of Kodiak on our way into port

Despite a late departure and some rough weather, it was an enormously successful trip. We collected a suite of fabulous datasets that will help us understand the formation of this 6000-km-long chain of volcanos that have formed across the Pacific plate over the last 80 million years.  Many mysteries remain about the water-covered parts of our planet, particularly in remote regions like our study area, despite the fact that they host truly gigantic structures. Jimmu Seamount is nearly as tall as Denali, the tallest mountain in North America, and much more massive!  

 
Comparison of bathymetry across Jimmu Seamount and elevation across Denali
Collecting data that enables us to unravel Earth’s mysteries requires a huge amount of work from a large group of dedicated people, and I wanted to use my final blog to thank everyone who made this project possible!  During both this research cruise and our previous cruise focused on the Hawaiian chain, we had wonderful groups of enthusiastic, hard-working and resilient students and early career scientists who assisted in data collection and made it possible for us to do a ton of data analysis onboard and get a first peak at what the data will show us.   Acquisition of marine geophysical data on a sophisticated platform like the R/V Langseth would not be possible without the entire onshore/offshore team that operates and supports this vessel from LDEO, NSF and other entities, and and the very capable OBS teams from WHOI, Scripps, and GEOMAR.  The experience, knowledge and (very, very) hard work of the Captain, crew, protected species observers and technical staff of the Langseth and of the OBS teams are absolutely essential to undertake our science, and we are very grateful for everything they do!   Finally, we thank the National Science Foundation for supporting this type of research, which makes it possible to gain unique insights into earth structure and processes beneath our oceans.   Thank you thank you thank you everyone, and I hope to have the good fortune to work with all of you again!

Group photo!

Donna Shillington
LDEO

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