Graduate Students Apply Now for Endurance Fall Shipboard Experience!
There is an opening for a student volunteer in the Fall 2024 as part of the U. S. National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Coastal Endurance Array on R/V Sikuliaq. The team will deploy and recover oceanographic moorings, profilers and gliders off Washington and Oregon. even surface moorings will be deployed and recovered along with up to four profilers and six gliders. The team will also conduct CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth) casts, with bottle sampling, and collect underway ship data for comparison to data from deployed equipment.
DATES: The expedition will be October 4- 20, 2024 out of Newport, OR. For more information and to apply see HERE. APPLY by August 30, 2024.
The primary goal of this program is to provide graduate students currently completing (or who have recently completed) a degree in a field of oceanographic research with the opportunity to participate in a research cruise.
To be eligible to participate, the individual must either currently be studying at a U.S.-based institution or be a recent graduate, and have either a U.S. Passport or an applicable U.S. Visa.