Experiments

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will operate a new center to provide seafloor seismographs and technical support to the U.S. academic community beginning in August 1, 2018. The new Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Center (OBSIC) will be housed at WHOI under a 5-year cooperative agreement, with John Collins serving as Director. The OBSIC replaces the Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool. This OBSIP website is no longer updated and will be removed in July 2019.

Experiments are archived by year in the tabs to the left. The table entries include links to experiment pages with detailed information such as principal investigators, experiment descriptions, cruise dates, and cruise blogs. Multi-year experiments are archived under the first year data was collected.

Year Experiment PI IIC Start End Network Code Status
2019

Bransfield Strait

 Wilcock WHOI 2019/01/03 2020 ZX 18-017 Restricted
2018

Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment (AACSE)

 Community LDEO, WHOI 2018/05/09 2019 XD Open
2018

Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain

 Shillington SIO, WHOI 2018/09/12 2018/10/21 ZU 18-015 Restricted
2018

Pacific Array

 Gaherty SIO 2018/04/07 2019 XE Restricted
2007

Central Oregon Locked Zone Array (COLZA)

 Trehu SIO 2007/09/09 2009/09/11 07-030 Restricted
2012 Juan de Fuca Carbotte SIO, WHOI 2012/06/07 2012/07/23 X6 12-015 Open
2010 CD-Papua Baldwin SIO 2010/03/01 2011/08/01 ZN Open
2011 Gulf of Alaska (GoAlaska) Christeson WHOI 2011/06/16 2011/06/22 1B 11-017 Open
2013 Gorda Nabelek LDEO, SIO 2013/11/17 2015/12/12 Z5 Open
2015 Santorini Hooft SIO, WHOI 2015/11/17 2015/12/12 1E 15-008 Restricted
2016 Yellowstone Lake Sohn WHOI 2016/07/13 2018/08/17 YL Restricted
2016 Pisagua/Iquique Crustal Tomography to Understand the Region of the Earthquake Source (PICTURES) Trehu SIO 2016/10/26 2016/12/09 _PICTURES XW Z7 16-005 Restricted
2015 Study of Extension and maGmatism in Malawi aNd Tanzania (SEGMeNT) Shillington SIO 2015/02/21 2015/10/10 YQ 16-010 Open
2016 Crustal Reflectivity Experiment Southern Transect (CREST) Reece WHOI 2016/01/04 2016/02/25 YB 16-003 Open
2014 Hikurangi Ocean Bottom Investigation of Tremor and Slow Slip (HOBITSS) Wallace LDEO 2014/05/10 2015/05/12 YH 8F Open
2003 Development and Testing of a Deep-Water, Acoustically-Linked, Moored-Buoy Seafloor Observatory (ALST) Collins WHOI 2003/11/19 2004/01/18 ZT Open
2004 Development and Testing of a Deep-Water, Acoustically-Linked, Moored-Buoy Seafloor Observatory (Nootka) Collins WHOI 2004/05/16 2005/07/05 X1 Open
2006 Augustine Volcano Uri ten Brink WHOI 2006/02/08 2006/03/27 ZV Open
2002 Hydrate Ridge Pecher WHOI 2002/08/16 2002/08/30 ZU 03-003 Open
2001 Southeast Indian Ridge Cochran WHOI 2001/12/11 2002/01/18 ZM 02-011 Open
2012 East Coast Submarine Landslides Collins, Uri ten Brink, McGuire WHOI 2012/07/06 2012/12/07 ZS Open
2011 Bering Sea Barth, Wood WHOI 2011/08/20 2011/08/29 2B 11-016 Open
2011 Alaska Langseth Experiment to Understand the megaThrust (ALEUT) Shillington SIO 2011/07/02 2011/07/12 ZF XM 11-024 Open
2010 Cascadia Keck Community WHOI 2010/07/13 2011/06/28 7A Open
2010 Lo`ihi Volcano Caplan-Auerbach WHOI 2010/09/15 2011/08/02 9A Open
2012 Blanco Transform Nabelek SIO, WHOI 2012/09/18 2013/10/06 X9 Open
2003

Seismicity, Structure, and Fluid Flow of the TAG Hydrothermal System (STAG)

 Sohn LDEO, WHOI 2003/06/25 2004/03/31 XI 07-002 Open
2011 Gulf of Mexico Hydrates Gerstoft WHOI 2011/04/03 2011/04/08 XJ 11-018 Open
2013 Gulf of Mexico Hydrates Haines, Hart WHOI 2013/04/18 2013/05/02 XZ 13-010 Open
2004 Broadband Onshore-offshore Lithospheric Investigation of Venezuela and the Antilles arc Region (BOLIVAR) Levander, Collins SIO, WHOI 2004/04/20 2004/05/31 XT 06-009 Open
2005 TOMODEC Wilcock LDEO 2005/01/07 2005/01/13 XU Open
2007 GEOPRICO Uri ten Brink WHOI 2007/03/09 2007/09/06 YI Open
2005 GEOPRICO Uri ten Brink WHOI 2005/03/28 2005/11/15 YF Open
2009 Lau Basin Wiens LDEO, SIO, WHOI 2009/01/22 2010/12/03 YL 09-012 Open
2009 Endeavor (ETOMO) Toomey SIO, WHOI 2009/08/22 2009/09/16 YN 09-014 Open
2005 Plume Lithosphere Undersea Melt Experiment (PLUME) Laske, 
Orcutt  		 SIO, WHOI 2005/01/05 2007/12/14 YS Open
2009 Pacific Lithosphere Anisotropy and Thickness Experiment (PLATE) Forsyth LDEO, SIO 2009/10/19 2010/11/01 Z6 Open
2011 NoMelt Gaherty SIO, WHOI 2011/11/30 2013/01/07 ZA 12-001 Open
2007 Seismicity of Quebrada-Discovery-Gofar Transforms (QDG) McGuire SIO, WHOI 2007/12/23 2009/01/26 ZD 08-014 Open
2010 Shatsky Rise Korenaga WHOI 2010/07/26 2010/09/02 ZL 10-022 Open
2014 Eastern North America Community Seismic Experiment (ENAM) Community SIO, WHOI 2014/04/02 2015/04/06 YO 14-005 Open
2005 Sea of Cortez Ocean Bottom Array (SCOOBA) Gaherty SIO 2005/10/16 2006/10/10 ZL Open
2005 Atlantis Massif Smith, McGuire WHOI 2005/06/05 2006/03/25 ZM Open
2011 Cascadia Community LDEO, SIO, WHOI 2011/07/25 2015/10/10 7D _CASCADIA Open
2004 Calabria-Apennine-Tyrrhenian/Subduction Collision Accretion Network (CATSCAN) Tolstoy LDEO 2004/10/01 2005/08/24 YD Open
2007 TAIGER McIntosh LDEO, SIO 2007/11/13 2009/06/30 YM 08-022 08-002 Open
2009 Marine Observations of Anisotropy (MOANA) Sheehan SIO 2009/01/31 2010/02/14 ZU Open
2012 Mariana Wiens LDEO, SIO, WHOI 2012/01/26 2013/02/10 XF 12-008 Open
2003 Multi-Scale Seismic Imaging of the Mariana Subduction Factory Wiens LDEO 2003/06/12 2004/05/12 YY Open
2013 MARINER Canales SIO 2013/04/16 2014/01/09 X3 13-007 Open
2010 ALBACORE Kohler SIO 2010/08/15 2011/09/16 2D Open
2001 Gravity Lineations, Intraplate Melting, Petrologic and Seismic Expedition (GLIMPSE) Forsyth LDEO 2001/12/01 2002/11/25 2A Open
2008 Costa Rica (TICO-CAVA) Holbrook SIO, WHOI 2008/02/16 2008/04/18 XB 08-012 08-003 Open
2012 ChilePepper Trehu LDEO 2012/05/01 2013/03/22 Z4 Open
2001 Far-offset Airgun Imaging of the Mantle (FAIM) Gaherty SIO 2001/06/03 2001/06/27 03-006 Open
2001 Exmouth and Cuvier Margins Driscoll SIO 2001/11/02 2001/11/28 04-003 Open
2002 Premiere Experiment, Sea of Cortez, Addressing the Development of Oblique Rifting (PESCADOR) Lizarralde SIO 2002/09/16 2002/10/30 04-018 Open
2003 East Pacific Rise 9ºN (EPR 9N) Tolstoy SIO 2003/09/01 2007/03/31 ZK 04-020 Open
2011 Salton Sea (SSIP) Driscoll SIO 2011/03/01 2011/03/31 11-025 Open