Dr. Weeraratne in typhoon

Dr. Weeraratne weathers a storm on the deck of the Kilo Moana. Dr. Weeraratne along with Cristo Ramirez and Jialin Li, both CSUN geology graduate students, are on a scientific cruise to recover two arrays of ocean bottom seimometers (OBS). The OBS's were deployed a year ago and have been sitting on the ocean bottom in the western Pacific collecting seismic data. They are part of a research project to determine how oceanic tectonic plates are constructed and evolve with time. More on this cruise can be found at: http://www.csun.edu/geology/DSW/dswcruise2.htm. Details of the deployment (previous) cruise can be found at: http://www.csun.edu/geology/DSW/dswcruise.htm