Under the direction of Charlie Paull, the canyon processes group plans on establishing a long-term record of currents, suspended sediments, salinity and temperature within the first 100 meters above the canyon floor. To achieve this goal we plan on deploying several instrument packages at 250 and 500 m depths along the axis of Monterey canyon. While the sensors are being placed for a science experiment, we are also simultaneously developing and testing the technology to lay submarine cables using the ROV Ventana across the seafloor to connect benthic instruments. The solid black dots denote the RIN and BIN sites.
Circles indicate locations of cores samples from the upper canyon.