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End of Days

This is the latest in a series of dispatches from scientists and education officers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor. The crew is on 36-day research trip to study Tamu Massif, a massive underwater volcano, located 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Japan in the Shatsky Rise. Read more posts here. As the end of Magnetic Anomalies expedition draws near, we will soon complete our exploration over Tamu Massif, the World’s Largest Single Volcano. Chief Scientist Dr. William Sager has expressed his satisfaction with all the good data that we have collected and the information that has been shared with students around the world. We are currently finishing Line 10 and will survey part of Line 9 tomorrow before heading to Guam and then to whatever place we call home. Even though we will be heading home shortly, we will still collect important magnetic data as we head SW to Guam and sail across the magnetic lineations south of Tamu Massif. Through all our weather detours and rough seas, the Captain and the Falkor’s crew managed our fuel and energy sources well and made sure that the cruise survey went as planned. More to come as we wrap up our volcano data, outreach, and our final thoughts of the R/V Falkor.

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