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 This OBSIP website is no longer updated and will be removed in July 2019.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 |
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2019 | Wilcock | WHOI | 2019/01/03 | 2020 | ZX 18-017 | Restricted | |
2018 | Community | LDEO, WHOI | 2018/05/09 | 2019 | XD | Open | |
2018 | Shillington | SIO, WHOI | 2018/09/12 | 2018/10/21 | ZU 18-015 | Restricted | |
2018 | Gaherty | SIO | 2018/04/07 | 2019 | XE | Restricted | |
2007 | 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 |