R/V Marcus G Langseth

It’s always interesting for us to see what vessels are at Lake Union Dry dock.. This 235 ft research vessel was hard to photograph.    It’s owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in New York as part of the University-National Oceanographic laboratory system fleet.   It studies seismic activity on the ocean floor and the movement of tectonic plates among other oceanographic things.....it goes all over the world but I couldn't find out what was being done to it here.  DIdn't know about this earth observatory either and their research for the earth.

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