The RV Marcus G. Langseth will sail out of Norfolk, VA on May 9th and returns on June 10th, with teams from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, University of Texas at Austin, Weizmann Institute, and the French National Research Center (CNRS, LIENSs, France). The combined goal is to collect tightly spaced, gridded data of the Cape Fear complex off the coast of North Carolina.
These studies could provide useful, new insight into what causes offshore landslides which can have effects on seafloor infrastructure, coastal populations and even produce tsunamis.
Feel free to follow along our 33-day journey. There will be updated posts about life on the ship as well as some of the science being done on board.