Join us with Oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer Katlin Bowman Adamczyk as she sets sail with a team of scientists from the US Geological Survey and partner organizations to conduct ship-based research in the deep waters and seafloor far offshore the Hawaiian Islands in Fall 2024.
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.
We’ll also explore 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. Because of the unique SWATH design, the Kilo Moana is a very stable and comfortable platform from which to conduct oceanographic research with extensive equipment for geophysical, physical oceanographic, meteorological and radioisotope research.
