Join us with Oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer Katlin Bowman Adamczyk onboard the R/V Kilo Moana, a 186’ Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) vessel owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by the University of Hawaiʻi Marine Center, as she nears the end of an ocean research expedition with a team of scientists from the US Geological Survey and partner organizations in the deep waters and seafloor far offshore the Hawaiian Islands.
We’ll learn about how the expedition had gone so far and see some of the samples they have collected to study. We’ll meet some of the team, who have a broad range of expertise in biology, geology, and oceanography, as they study marine minerals and their environmental setting—the microbes and animals that coexist with them and the characteristics of the surrounding sediments and seawater—in the deepest and least scientifically characterized parts of the ocean, known as the abyssal plains.
