{"id":8351,"date":"2023-02-01T13:01:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:23:00","slug":"exploring-the-depths-eduardo-ochoas-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/exploring-the-depths-eduardo-ochoas-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Depths: Eduardo Ochoa&#8217;s Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eduardo Ochoa, a doctoral student at ViCOROB\/UdG, is participating in a four-week research cruise organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution<\/a> (WHOI, PI Dan Fornari), from January 6th to February 2nd.. The cruise is part of a multi-year project to study and map a submarine volcano that scientists believe will erupt in the next five years. The study area is in a part of the <strong>East Pacific Rise<\/strong> (EPR), and lies to the west of Costa Rica.<br \/>\nVicorob has been collaborating with the WHOI in this effort since 2020, when we participated in a first cruise out of three planned (2021, 2023 and 2025).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/eduardo-ochoa-is-currently-a-third-year-phd-student-at-vicorob\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eduardo Ochoa<\/a> is the computer vision specialist on the current cruise. He is responsible for taking images of the hydrothermal vents and then creating <strong>3D models<\/strong> of these structures. The 3D models are used to study changes over time. On this cruise, the images will be taken by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/what-we-do\/explore\/underwater-vehicles\/hov-alvin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DSV Alvin<\/a>, WHOI&#8217;s manned deep-sea research submarine. This submarine is famous for its involvement in the 1986 exploration of the wreck of the RMS Titanic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As part of his activity, Eduardo dived aboard Alvin on a mission that took more than 8 hours, reaching the bottom of the ocean at a depth of 2500 meters. The images he collected are spectacular, both from the seabed and from inside the submarine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information:<\/p>\n<p>EPR science cruises : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/oceanus\/feature\/map-epr\/\">https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/oceanus\/feature\/map-epr\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AlVIN:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/what-we-do\/explore\/underwater-vehicles\/hov-alvin\/\">https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/what-we-do\/explore\/underwater-vehicles\/hov-alvin\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eduardo Ochoa, a doctoral student at ViCOROB\/UdG, is participating in a four-week research cruise organized by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI, PI Dan Fornari), from January 6th to February 2nd.. The cruise is part of a multi-year project to study and map a submarine volcano that scientists believe will erupt in the next five&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11205,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions\/11205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}