OECI Participants of the 2023 AGU Conference

The AGU 2023 Conference is held in San Francisco, CA from December 11-15 this year and many participants are sharing their work that includes research related to research collected on OET expeditions and other OECI-funded ocean efforts. Take a look at some of the science presented this year:

Oral Presentations

Exploring hydrogen rich venting beneath ice on an ocean world - field report by Chris German

Hydrothermal venting in response to recent seismicity and seafloor volcanism at Kamae'huakanaloa (Lo'ihi) seamount, January 2023 vs August-September 2018 by Chris German

Multi-Hotspot Model for the Origin of Northern Line Island Seamounts by Kevin Konrad

Multibeam Surveying with an Uncrewed Wind-driven Platform: Results from Saildrone’s Mission to Alaska and the West Coast by Shannon Hoy

Poster Presentations

Automated Classification of Seafloor Morphology using Deep Neural Networks by Puja Banerjee

Did the Formation of a Mid-Pacific Microplate Drive Volcanism Among the Geologist (South Hawaiian) Seamounts? by Brandon Scott

Investigating the Geodynamic Origin of the Voyager Seamount Chain within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument by Hannah Paradis

New Insights into the Long-lived Macdonald Hotspot from the Age and Composition of Lava Flows in the Howland and Baker Island US Economic Exclusive Zone by Nicholas Foresta 

NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer and 2023 Contributions to Expanding Pacific Research and Exploration of Submerged Systems by Thomas Morrow

Origins of the Liliʻuokalani Seamount Chain — Evidence for Another Long-Lived Pacific Plume? by Val Finlayson

Plume Hunting in the Aleutians via a Saildrone Surveyor USV by Ashley Immani and Aurora Elmore