Welcome to the first blog post of the epic East Pacific Imaging Cruise (EPIC). Our science party consists of three scientists, four technicians, and ten students. Yesterday we left port from Puntarenas, Costa Rica aboard the Research Vessel (R/V) Marcus G. Langseth to carry out our research project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are currently on our way to deploy the first of 70 planned seafloor stations, spanning a large portion of the Cocos oceanic plate. The map below shows all the station locations. The yellow circles are stations where we will deploy both ocean-bottom seismometers (OBS) and ocean-bottom electromagnetic (OBEM) receivers. The white circles are stations where we will deploy only OBEMs. The data from these stations will be used to image the crust and mantle beneath the region. Stay tuned for more details in future blog posts!
