Nature features Falkor
and Schmidt Ocean Institute
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
March 27, 2013 - Nature published a feature article and an Full Story
Coral Resilience to Climate Change
Monday, January 07, 2013
Outcomes of the research project supported by Schmidt Ocean Institute and conducted by Dr. Daniel Barshis are discussed in this week's issue of the Full Story
Long-Term Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Saturday, November 24, 2012
This final shakedown cruise for the Schmidt Ocean Institute research vessel Falkor is dedicated to a comprehensive study of ecosystems near the site of Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the nor ... Full Story
Sustainability of Reef Fishes and Causes of Harmful Algal Blooms
Saturday, October 06, 2012
For two weeks in October of 2012, a group of scientists from Texas A&M University led by Drs. Greg Stunz , Full Story
Mapping South Texas Banks
Sunday, September 16, 2012
September 17, 2012 - Over the next two weeks, the Schmidt Ocean Institute will be putting its flagship research vessel Falkor through another shakedown while exploring deep rocky banks s ... Full Story
Deep-Sea Coral Shakedown
Thursday, August 16, 2012
As part of the planned series of shake-down cruises in the Gulf of Mexico, research vessel Falkor, the flagship of the Schmidt Ocean Institute, will depart from St. Petersburg, Florida on August ... Full Story
SS Terra Nova discovered
Friday, August 10, 2012
August 13, 2012—Last month, during routine functional performance testing of the mutibeam mapping echosounders on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s flagship R/V Falkor, the team aboard&md ... Full Story
Trans-Atlantic Shakedown Voyage
Saturday, June 30, 2012
The R/V Falkor, the newest research vessel of the Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI), departed on her first transatlantic voyage on July 2 from the Port of Tyne in the Un ... Full Story
RV Falkor 2012 Field Trials
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
March 17, 2012 - The Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI) announced that the research vessel (R/V) Falkor officially received her new name in a private ceremony at the Peters Schiffbau shipyard in Germa ... Full Story
2nd Deep-Sea Observatory Re-Deployment
Monday, January 30, 2012
On January 30, 2012, the Schmidt Ocean Institute ship Lone Ranger with the science party lead by Ken Smith and Alana Sherman on board return to the Sargasso Sea for a t ... Full Story
Introductory presentation of the Schmidt Ocean Institute at C-MORE
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
The Schmidt Ocean Institute Director of Science Operations Dr. Victor Zykov will be making an introductory presentation of SOI at the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C- ... Full Story











