[OBSIPtec] Call for Participation – PacificArray OBS Recovery Cruise (May-June 2019)

[Kasey Aderhold]

*_Call for Participation – PacificArray OBS Recovery Cruise (May-June 2019)
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*Application Deadline:  Feb 11, 2019*

*Cruise dates: May 6 – June 7, 2019 (flexibility of ±5 days required)
PIs: Jim Gaherty, Zach Eilon, Don Forsyth, Göran Ekström
Science Party: up to 6*

We are soliciting apply-to-sail participants for the RV Kilo Moana 
ocean-bottom seismograph (OBS) recovery cruise, part of the 
international PacificArray initiative to install OBS arrays across the 
Pacific plate. We will recover 30 broadband OBS deployed in spring 2018 
in a region approximately 500 km NE of the Marquesas Islands in the 
central Pacific, notable for unexplained gravity lineations that hint at 
small-scale sub-lithospheric convection. More information about this 
project can be found online: 
(https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1658491&HistoricalAwards=false 
<https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1658491&HistoricalAwards=false>).


Science party responsibilities will include rotating 8-hour watches to 
assist in recovery of the 30 OBS, collect and archive multi-beam 
bathymetry and side-scan data, as well as crewing on board 
oceanographic instrumentation. Cruise activities will include reading 
and discussion of papers pertinent to the science goals of the 
experiment.  The project blog from the deployment cruise provides a 
perspective on these activities:  (https://pacificorca.wordpress.com/ 
<https://pacificorca.wordpress.com/>)

Selected applicants will contribute to collecting the open-access data 
that will be provided to the scientific community for use in addressing 
a wide spectrum of Earth Science research targets, from marine 
geophysics to global seismology. Applications from students and 
early-career scientists are particularly encouraged. Applicants do not 
need to have experience with the type of data collection they will 
participate in; we hope that wide community participation in these 
field campaigns will provide opportunities for scientists to gain 
familiarity with a variety of data-collection techniques. Funds for 
travel to/from port (Honolulu, HI) will be provided for US-based 
researchers.

To apply, please assemble an application package (2-page CV and 1-page 
statement of interest and experience) and submit it electronically to 
James Gaherty (gaherty at LDEO.columbia.edu 
<mailto:gaherty at ldeo.columbia.edu>) no later than February 11, 2019. 
Applications from graduate students and post-docs require a letter of 
support from the graduate advisor or supervisor.

-- 
Kasey Aderhold, Ph.D.
Project Associate | IRIS TA/OBSIP Management
202-407-7019 | kasey at iris.edu

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