For access to a locked archive, please contact Joyce Miller

2001 Cruises

• MV0101
• MV0102
• DRIFT04(RR0101)

2000 Cruises

• MBASA
• AJC01
• AJC02
• Kaimana

1998 Cruises

• US/Japan1
• US/Japan2
• US/Japan3
• US/Japan4
• Yorktown/Midway

1997 Cruises

• SeMeWe304
• SeMeWe305
• MW9719
• Northstar

1996 Cruises

• EW9605
• EW9606
• MW9603
• Fathom

1995 Cruises

• TAN9505
• CW9501
• BEN9501
• JR9501

1994 Cruises

• RS9401
• Score94
• Giljanes94

1993 Cruises

• MW9304
• Hudson9305

1992 Cruises

• MW9204
• EW9208
• POKI02MV

1991 Cruises

• F12-91-HW

The Faculty and Staff of HMRG

Joyce Miller

HMRG/SOEST Director of Seafloor Data Services

Hawai’i Mapping Research Group

University of Hawai’i at Manoa

1680 East-West Rd, POST 815, Honolulu HI 96822

tel: (808)555-555 fax: (808)956-6530 email: joycemil@hawaii.edu

Mark Rognstad

Design Engineer: Associate Specialist, SOEST / HIGP

Hawai’i Mapping Research Group

University of Hawai’i at Manoa

1680 East-West Rd, POST 815, Honolulu HI 96822

tel: (808)956-8712 fax: (808)956-6530 email: markr@soest.hawaii.edu

Steven Tottori

Electronics Technician

Hawai’i Mapping Research Group

University of Hawai’i at Manoa

1680 East-West Rd, POST 816, Honolulu HI 96822

tel: (808)956-2559 fax: (808)956-6530 email: snt@soest.hawaii.edu

Roger Davis

Software Engineer

Hawai’i Mapping Research Group

University of Hawai’i at Manoa

1680 East-West Rd, POST 815, Honolulu HI 96822

tel: (808)956-5242 fax: (808)956-6530 email: rbd@soest.hawaii.edu

Les Kajiwara

Administrative Officer: Software Engineer

Hawai’i Mapping Research Group

University of Hawai’i at Manoa

1680 East-West Rd, POST 815, Honolulu HI 96822

tel: (808)956-5231 fax: (808)956-6530 email: lesk@soest.hawaii.edu

Former Staff of HMRG

Paul Johnson

Director Emeritus

Margo Edwards

Director Emeritus

Bruce Appelgate

Field Ops. Dir. Emeritus

HMRG mapping personnel work closely with SOEST’s Ocean Technology Group (OTG) and the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory in testing, calibration, and operation of SOEST’s multibeam sonars.  The R/V Kilo Moana  has both deep and shallow mapping capabilities with Kongsberg 12-kHz EM122 and a 70-100 kHz EM710  multibeam sonars.  The R/V Ka’imikai-O-Kanaloa (KoK) is equipped with a 12-kHz Seabeam 3012 multibeam.Currently the OTG is responsible for operation and maintenance of the multibeam sonars, which are run routinely on all cruises and the data are archived as part of the ships’ underway data sets.   HMRG engineers provide support during acoustic testing periods and HMRG’s Seafloor Data Services Manager coordinates geophysical data archiving for SOEST and OTG  and also provides data processing support on test cruises and, as required, on cruises with extensive multibeam usage.

Real-time display of IMI30 sidescan data over previously collected multibeam bathymetry data in Mariana Trench area.

HMRG has developed near-real-time display software for gridded bathymetric and backscatter data which provides scientists with the ability to view newly collected data in superposition to previously gridded data from earlier surveys as well as plan new survey tracklines in relation to such data. This software can be used with either towed HMRG sonars or hull-mounted multibeam sonars. The EM122, EM710 and Seabeam 3012 systems on R/V Kilo Moana and R/V Ka’imikai-O-Kanaloa each have a dedicated computer system running this software which is fully available for science party use. (This software is also currently deployed on other UNOLS vessels including R/V Melville and R/V Thomas G. Thompson.) The ability to geographically view high-resolution bathymetric or side-scan data in near-real time also allows scientist to select sites for detailed sampling or video surveys, including dredging, coring and camera operations.

This bathymetry chart is a typical HMRG product for both multibeam and towed surveys.

This sidescan chart is a typical HMRG product for both multibeam and towed surveys

Routine collection of multibeam data has become a standard protocol over the past decade and all underway data (e.g., multibeam, sub-bottom profiler, magnetics, gravity, ADCP, etc.) that have been collected during cruises funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) must be submitted to the Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) within 60 days of acquisition.   The PI may request that data are withheld from public distribution for up to 2 years through R2R and NSF.   These underway data are submitted by the ship’s parent institution (in this case SOEST/OTG)  in raw logged format, usually without any post-processing.  Generally PIs are responsible for further multibeam data processing, but HMRG and/or OTG personnel can also be contracted to provide processing services if the PI does not have the personnel or capability aboard ship.Several processing packages can be made available, including:  HMRG’s own internal software, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) SABER processing software; Quality Positioning Services (QPS) Fledermaus processing software; MBSystem, Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) and GeoMapApp, which are open source software tools supported by NSF.   Examples of fully processed and plotted multibeam data collected and processed by HMRG personnel are shown here.