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Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Deep Ocean Operations U.S. Navy System Design Custom Scientific Instrumentation Design Field Experiments Marine Corrosion Analysis and Control |
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APL-UW ocean engineers Le Olson and Vern Miller designed and operated cages to capture and carry to the surface sulfide chimneys from the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate. The sulfide chimneys were cut free from the surrounding rock using a diamond studded chain saw operated from an ROV.
An APL-UW team will return to the Juan de Fuca Ridge with an international consortium of scientists as part of Project NEPTUNE. NEPTUNE will link about 30 locations on the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate with power and communication for scientific observation and experiments. Tim McGinnis is the lead engineer for the power system and the interface to external scientific sensors for the decades-long deep-sea observatory. More >>  |
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