Follow along as participants in the cruise provide updates and reflections on their experiences, the science, the technology, and other elements of the expedition.
By Chris Goldfinger, Waldo Wakefield, and M. Elizabeth Clarke
The Northern San Andreas Fault (NSAF) stretches from the Mendocino Triple Junction, an area in northern California where three tectonic plates meet, south through the San Francisco Bay area.
Read moreBy Waldo Wakefield
The scientists involved in exploring the Northern San Andreas Fault are using a variety of sonic and optical imaging systems to visualize geology, geohabitats, and biological communities associated with the fault.
Read moreBy M. Elizabeth Clarke, Erica Fruh, and Jeremy C. Taylor
Even though the AUV is working autonomously, sometimes we want to communicate with it in order to follow its progress in accomplishing its dive plan and in some cases to ask to change its mission during a dive. One of the most important things we do before a dive is to make sure we have all the communications working before the AUV dives.
Read moreBy Chris Goldfinger and Samuel Y. Johnson
We’re now collecting about 50 “seismic-reflection” profiles across the Northern San Andreas Fault (NSAF) to image the subsurface structure of the fault zone.
Read moreBy Emily McDonald
Living on a sailboat for anywhere from 2 to 6 days between port calls is an experiment and experience in itself.
Read moreBy Morgan Erhardt
There is a multitude of information that can be gathered from multibeam sonar data.
Read moreBy Sam Kesten
There is a multitude of information that can be gathered from multibeam sonar data.
Read moreBy Sam Kesten
There is a very small window for conducting research cruises off the Northern California coast.
Read moreBy Bran Black
The first leg of this expedition has been dedicated to mapping the San Andreas Fault and surrounding seafloor via multibeam sonar.
Read moreBy Chris Goldfinger
We're finally off on our multibeam survey of the northern San Andreas.
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