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October 28 2026 Two of our SEASAM Expedition leaders, Dan Wildrick and Tony D’Aoust, are out right now on a dredging expedition on R/V Atlantis off the coast of the Galapagos. They report in that they are pulling up a lot of interesting rocks! Tony reports that they are dredging mostly on the sides of…

Welcome to the NSF Facility for Seafloor Sampling! We are a multi-institutional team, centered at the University of Washington, dedicated to providing scientists across the United States with access to seafloor samples critical for addressing some of the most pressing questions in the geosciences as they connect to the marine environment. We are excited to…