{"id":25379,"date":"2014-06-19T10:42:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T20:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=25379"},"modified":"2021-10-29T13:36:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T23:36:55","slug":"uh-students-return-from-final-schmidt-ocean-institute-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/06\/19\/uh-students-return-from-final-schmidt-ocean-institute-expedition\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> students return from final Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_25388\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25388\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/soest-sio-expedition.jpg\" alt=\"people standing on sampler\" width=\"300\" height=\"367\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/soest-sio-expedition.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/soest-sio-expedition-212x260.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Schmidt Ocean Institute crew assist <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students in preparing the <abbr title=\"Conductivity, Temperature, Depth\">CTD<\/abbr> rosette sampler for deployment. (Photo by C.Wiener)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> marine science students will return from the last of three student research expeditions aboard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schmidtocean.org\/\">Schmidt Ocean Institute&#8217;s<\/a> <abbr>R\/V<\/abbr> <em>Falkor<\/em> on Thursday, June 19. The group sailed to <a href=\"http:\/\/aco-ssds.soest.hawaii.edu\/ALOHA\/\">Station ALOHA<\/a>, a long-term ocean sampling site 60 miles north of <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>. The 11 students on this past cruise makes a total of 58 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> graduate and undergraduate students who have had an opportunity to learn and train onboard the <abbr>R\/V<\/abbr> <em>Falkor<\/em> in 2014.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News story<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/02\/14\/graduate-students-lead-research-effort-aboard-the-rv-falkor\/\">&ldquo;Graduate students lead research effort aboard the <abbr>R\/V<\/abbr> <em>Falkor<\/em>&rdquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schmidtocean.org\/story\/show\/2250\">Schmidt Ocean Institute student cruises website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most of this <a href=\"http:\/\/schmidtocean.org\/story\/show\/2689\">third student group&#8217;s research<\/a> at Station ALOHA focused on small crustaceans known as copepods. Student projects included researching the grazing habits of copepod larvae&#8212;a critical component in ocean nutrient cycling&#8212;and exploring the fluorescence in copepods and copepod paternity.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was wonderful to watch everyone work together&#8212;the students, postdoctoral students and the Schmidt Ocean Institute team,&rdquo; said Erica Goetze, Schmidt Ocean Institute&#8217;s chief scientist and assistant professor. &ldquo;The data collected on this expedition will serve as a foundation for multiple PhD dissertations and research projects.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Taylor<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa dean of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/\">School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a>, also joined the research cruise to map the seafloor at the Kaiwi Channel between the islands of <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> and <span aria-label=\"Molokai>Moloka&#699;i<\/span>. Taylor&#8217;s project gave students an excellent opportunity to observe Schmidt Ocean Institute&#8217;s state-of-the-art high-resolution seafloor mapping sonar systems that were recently used to map 35 percent of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.papahanaumokuakea.gov\/\">Papah&#257;naumoku&#257;kea Marine National Monument<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News story<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/23\/scientists-chart-seafloor-of-one-of-earths-largest-marine-protected-areas\/\">&ldquo;Scientists chart seafloor of one of Earth&#8217;s largest marine protected areas&rdquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schmidtocean.org\/story\/show\/2216\">Papah&#257;naumoku&#257;kea Marine National Monument mapping expedition website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Said Taylor, &ldquo;These expeditions have allowed students to walk away with a whole new skill set that they will be able to apply to their own research and future oceanography work.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schmidtocean.org\/story\/show\/2245\">Student cruise one: The secret lives of whales<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schmidtocean.org\/story\/show\/2452\">Student cruise two: Deeper views<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schmidtocean.org\/story\/show\/2689\">Student cruise three: Net gains at Station ALOHA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Iron-eating bacteria focus of additional <em>Falkor<\/em> cruise<\/h2>\n<p>With the student cruises completed, the <abbr>R\/V<\/abbr> <em>Falkor<\/em> leaves the Port of Honolulu again for the <span aria-label=\"Loihi\">L&#333;&#699;ihi<\/span> Seamount off <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island on June 25, on a research cruise led by SOEST Assistant Professor <strong>Brian Glazer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>His research will focus on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schmidtocean.org\/story\/show\/2225\">iron-eating bacteria<\/a> at this undersea volcano. Glazer and his research team will collect water samples to better understand the processes impacting delivery and dispersion of hydrothermal fluids from <span aria-label=\"Loihi\">L&#333;&#699;ihi<\/span> to the Pacific Ocean. The goal is to gain a better understanding of the processes underway at two known sites where bacteria are feeding on or oxidizing iron.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the last Schmidt Ocean Institute research cruise in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=6580\">School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> marine science student examined small crustaceans on the final student expedition aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute&#8217;s <abbr>R\/V<\/abbr> <em>Falkor<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[92,9],"class_list":["post-25379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-uh-manoa","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25379"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150885,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25379\/revisions\/150885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}