• Cascadia Initiative
• Antarctica

Cascadia Initiative Expeditions

The Cascadia Initiative is an onshore-offshore seismic and geodetic experiment, using an underwater array of seismometers to measure the deformation of the Juan de Fuca and Gorda plates. The seismometers, located off the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington and Vancouver Island, need to be recovered and deployed every year in order to collect the data they contain.

Visit the Cascadia Initiative Expedition Website to learn more.

To learn more about the science crew members, follow the links to their entries on our Marine Careers page, where you will also find information about ship’s crew and careers.

2014: Recovery –

• Summary of the 2014 Expeditions will be posted on the CIET Website at the end of the season

2014 science crew

(to be updated at the end of the season)

• Matt Fowler (OSU/NOAA  VENTS), Chief Scientist/Moorings Specialist
• Alex Turpin (OSU)
• Martin Rapa (Scripps), Development Engineer
• Ernest Aaron (Scripps)
• Mark Gibaud (Scripps)
• Mark Lockwood (SAIC)
• Amy Williamson (Georgia Tech) Apply to Sail intern
• Maxwell “Tobias” Tupper (Georgia Tech) Apply to sail intern
• Bill Hanshumaker (Oregon Sea Grant/OSU) Marine educator
• Pat Kight (Oregon Sea Grant/OSU) Photographer

2013 : Recovery – Southern Seismometers

• Summary of the 2013 Expeditions, including reports on each leg
• Bill’s video: the retrieval process

2013 science crew

• Bob Dziak (OSU/NOAA PMEL) Chief Scientist
• Matt Fowler, (OSU/NOAA VENTS), Moorings Specialist
• Martin Rapa, (Scripps), Development Engineer
• Paul Georgief, (Scripps), Design Engineer
• Jake Rhodes, (Scripps), Electrical Engineer
• Anna Semple, (PMEL/NOAA VENTS) Research Assistant
• Stanslav Edel, Intern
• Laura Fattaruso, Intern

2012: Recovery – Northern Seismometers

• Summary of the 2012 Expeditions, including reports on each leg
• Bill’s first post of the 2012 cruise

2012 science crew

(coming soon)

2011: Deployment

This was the second leg in the deployment of an array of ocean-bottom seismometers that will be used in conjunction with real-time, land based seismometers and high resolution GPS data for studying large earthquakes and volcanic hazard mitigation.

• Summary of the 2011 Expeditions, including reports on each leg
• Bill’s first post of the 2011 cruise

2011 science crew:

• Bob Dziak (OSU/NOAA) Chief Scientist
• Del Bohnenstiehl (NCSU) Co-chief scientist
• Matt Fowler, Moorings Specialist, PMEL/NOAA VENTS
• Cory Schiep (NCSU)
• Joe Haxel (OSU/NOAA) Research Assistant
• Martin Rapa, Scripps
• Paul Georgief, Scripps
• Ray Klein, consultant, Scripps
• Vincent Oletu, Junior Marine Engineer, LDEO
• David Gassier, Ocean Research Engineer, LDEO
• Drew Stolzman, LDEO

Bill’s previous ocean expedition blogs:

Antarctic Expeditions

Expedition blogs from 2005 and 2006:

• 2006: Sounds from the Southern Ocean
• 2005: Sounds from the Southern Ocean