Scientists, engineers, students, and R/V Thompson crew completed all the maintenance and operations tasks needed on the OOI Regional Cabled Array during the 37-day cruise.

Field tests of an accurate acoustic navigation system on Seaglider promise continuous, long-endurance observations of the deep ocean interior.

2020 was a year like no other. In spite of the challenges, we report that our scientists and engineers made advances in all of the Laboratory's areas of expertise. Read more about their resilience and accomplishments.

PIXL is an X-ray spectrometer integrated into the Perseverance rover that landed on Mars in February 2021. PIXL is on its mission measure the microstructure of rocks in search of fossils and evidence of ancient Martian microbial life.

In a recent paper, a CIMU team describes successful experiments to manipulate a solid object with ultrasound beams transmitted through the skin.