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TOM CRUISE CLASS 2014
Cascadia Initiative: Leg 3 on the R/V Thomas G Thompson
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The R/V Thompson cruise is leg 3 of the
Cascadia Initiative’s
2014 at-sea operations.
This cruise will recover 20 of the brand new shallow-water instruments specially designed to withstand the harsh shallow-water environment along the continental shelf immediately offshore.
The instruments are from the
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory,
who have a team of engineers on board. The
JASON
submersible provided by the
Woods Hole Oceanographical Institution
is being used to recover some of the instruments. We will also recover 12 deep water instruments (up to 3 km depth). Two of these instruments need to be “rescued” as they have lost communication with the surface. JASON will dive to search for them at the bottom of the ocean.
Tom Cruise Class members are onboard to provide scientific support to the at-sea operations. These include standing watch, monitoring sea floor mapping and echo sounder equipment, logging JASON dives, coordinating navigation with the bridge, spotting pop-up buoys, scrubbing TRMs and spooling line (by hand …3km at a time).
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R/V Thomas G Thompson
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Left to right: JASON sub going in, JASON Control Van, Cruise map
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Cruise class participants
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Name: Richard Allen
Position: Co-Chief Scientist; Professor, UC Berkeley
Research cruise experience: One previous cruise - on the Thompson
Favorite thing on board: JASON Control ...and dessert
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Name: Maya Tolstoy
Position: Co-Chief Scientist; Associate Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Research cruise experience: Enjoying my 31st cruise!
Favorite thing on board: The food and the people
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Name: Tarini Bhatnagar
Year/Major: 3rd year grad student, Columbia U., Marine Geophysics
Research cruise experience: None!
Favorite thing on board: Eating and the good movie collection
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Name: William Hawley
Year/Major: 1st year grad student, Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
Research cruise experience: None (I once saw a cruise ship from a mountain in Alaska.)
Favorite thing on board: First seeing the data and napping on the rocking bow
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Name: Danny Hertel
Year/Major: 3rd year, Geophysics, UC Berkeley
Research cruise experience: None
Favorite thing on board: Showers in rough seas
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Name: Chris Jaeger
Year/Major: 3rd year, Geophysics, UC Berkeley
Research cruise experience: None (but I’m seaworthy.)
Favorite thing on board: Spooling 3 Kilometers of rope by hand
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Name: Voon Hui Lai
Year/Major: 4th year in Geophysics, UC Berkeley
Research cruise experience: None (does scuba diving count?)
Favorite thing on board: Working at back-deck
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Name: Weihan Liu
Year/Major: Incoming senior in Geophysics, UC Berkeley
Research cruise experience: None!
Favorite thing on board: Land
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Name: Brenda Luna
Year/Major: 4th year, Geophysics, UC Berkeley
Research cruise experience: None. (I took a ferry once!)
Favorite thing on board: Marine life sightings.
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Name: Robert Martin-Short
Year/Major: 4th year, Imperial College London, Geophysics
Research cruise experience: None (Accustomed to luxury cruises, though.)
Favorite thing on board: Washing cables
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Name: Una Miller
Year/Major: Junior in Oceanography, University of Washington
Research cruise experience: One month-long cruise and this one
Favorite thing on board: JASON. And the food.
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Name: Yen Joe Tan
Year/Major: Incoming Marine Geophysics graduate student, Columbia U.
Research cruise experience: None!
Favorite thing on board: Sleep
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