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Boundary Sources and Sink of 230Th, 232Th, and 231Pa n the NW Pacific
9/1/10
8/31/13
Pacific Ocean
Cl Isotope Systematics of the Neogene Izu Bonin Arc Volcanic Rocks
3/1/06
6/1/08
Pacific Ocean
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Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
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Austin, TX
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Izu Bonin arc
Collaborative Research: Ecosystem dynamics of Western Pacific hydrothermal vent communities associated with polymetallic sulfide deposits
12/1/15
3/31/19
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: Developing a Continous Replicated Reconstruction of Tropical Pacific Climate Over the Last 500-700 Years: Analysis of Massive Porites Corals from American Samoa
8/15/12
7/31/15
Pacific Ocean
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Ta'u, American Samoa
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Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
;
Stanford University
Collaborative Research: P2C2-Reconstructing Tropical Pacific Climate Variability and Monsoon Systems, and Abrupt Changes from Ice Cores on Irain Jaya, Indonesia and Hualcan, Peru
8/1/08
6/30/13
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: 3-D/4-D Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Magmatic-Hydrothermal System at the East Pacific Rise RIDGE 2000 Integrated Study Site at 9 50' N
8/15/03
9/30/11
Pacific Ocean
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East Pacific Rise, 9°50'N -104°W
Collaborative Research: A MCS Investigation to Study Axial Crustal Structure and Alteration of Upper Crust at the Juan de Fuca Spreading Center
4/1/02
3/31/06
Pacific Ocean
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Juan de Fuca Ridge
Collaborative Research: Catching the quake: Investigating samples from the JFAST expedition for evidence of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
5/1/13
4/30/16
Asia
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Pacific Ocean
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Japan
Collaborative Research: Coring the Line Islands Ridge for Paleoceanographic Research
2/15/12
1/31/14
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: Crustal Accretion and Mantle Processes Along the Subduction-Influenced Eastern Lau Spreading Center
9/1/08
8/31/14
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: Dust Deposition, Paleo-Export Production, and Migration of the (ITCZ) Through the Last Glacial Cycle in the West-Central Pacific (Line Islands)
2/15/15
4/30/19
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: Evolution and Hydration of the Juan de Fuca Crust and Uppermost Mantle: A Plate-Scale Seismic Investigation from Ridge to Trench
1/1/12
2/28/16
North America
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Pacific Ocean
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Pacific Ocean
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Juan de Fuca Plate
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Cascadia Subduction Zone
Collaborative Research: Extracting multi-century low-latitude sea surface temperatures from coral skeletons using replicated records of annual growth: method refinement & application
9/1/11
8/31/13
Pacific Ocean
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Fiji
;
Tonga
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Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
;
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Collaborative Research: Fossil Coral Estimates of Central Tropical Pacific SST and Hydrological Variability during the last Millennium
9/1/11
8/31/14
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative research: Geochemical variation of the Pacific crust subducting beneath the Izu-Bonin
5/1/14
4/30/18
Pacific Ocean
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Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
Collaborative Research: Geomagnetic Variability, Paleoenvironmental Change, and a Tuned Geologic Timescale from Pacific Eocene-Pleistocene Sediments from IODP Expeditions 320-312
3/1/10
2/28/13
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: Geophysical Constraints on Mechanisms of Ocean Plateau Formation from Shatsky Rise, Northwest Pacific
8/1/09
7/31/12
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: GEOTRACES Pacifice Section: Nd isotopes and REEs in the South Pacific
1/1/13
12/31/13
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: Hawaiian and Subplinian Basaltic Volcanism: Constrains on Eruption Dynamics from Kilauea
1/1/12
12/31/13
Pacific Ocean
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Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
;
Kilauea Volcano, HI
Collaborative Research: Illuminating the Cascadia plate boundary zone and accretionary wedge with a regional-scale ultra-long offset multi-channel seismic study
11/1/18
10/31/22
North America
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Pacific Ocean
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British Columbia
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Cascadia Subduction Zone
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Oregon
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Washington
Collaborative Research: Imaging small-scale convection and structure of the mantle in the south Pacific: a US contribution to international collaboration PacificArray
8/15/17
7/31/21
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: Imaging the Cascadia Subduction Zone: A Ship-to-Shore Opportunity
4/1/12
4/30/15
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: Inferences on Cascadia Deformation Front and Plate Interface Properties from Advanced Studies of Active Source Seismic Data
7/1/17
6/30/20
North America
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Pacific Ocean
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Oregon
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Washington
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Juan de Fuca Plate
Collaborative Research: Management and Implementation of the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridonal Transect
8/1/17
7/31/20
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: Mechanisms of Transient Deformation Following Great 2006-2007 Kuril Earthquakes: Frictional Afterslip or Viscoelastic Relaxation?
8/1/10
7/31/12
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: Monitoring Inflation at Axial Seamount
9/15/07
6/30/13
Pacific Ocean
;
Juan de Fuca Ridge
Collaborative Research: P2C2 - Reconstructing North Pacific Climate Variability using Multi-Millennial Tree Ring Resources for Glacier Bay, Alaska
9/1/09
8/31/12
Pacific Ocean
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Glacier Bay
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Alaska
Collaborative Research: Plutons as Ingredients for Continental Crust: Pilot Study of the Differences between intermediate plutons and lavas in the intra-oceanic Aleutian arc
2/15/12
7/31/14
Pacific Ocean
;
Aleutian Islands
Collaborative Research: Seismic imaging of volcano construction, underplating and flexure along the Hawaii-Emperor Seamount Chain
4/1/18
3/31/21
Pacific Ocean
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Hawaii-Emperor Seamount Chain
Collaborative Research: Strain Accumulation and release at the Kuril Subduction Zone from Postseismic Observations on the Kuril GPS Array in 2007-2014
2/1/12
5/31/16
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: Structure and Composition of Oceanic Lithosphere and the Lithosphere/Asthenosphere Boundary
3/1/10
2/28/15
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: Testing Mechanisms of Tropical Climate Change and Variability Using New Cores from the Line Islands
7/15/14
6/30/18
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: the role of fluids in intermediate-depth seismicity and wedge anisotropy: Case studies for Cascadia and Alaska, with a comparison to Japan
4/1/13
9/30/14
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: Understanding the Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Earthquakes at Axial Seamount Late in an Eruptive Cycle
9/1/15
8/31/18
Pacific Ocean
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Axial Seamount
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Northeast Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect: Sources and Sinks of Neodymium Isotopes and Rare Earth Elements
11/1/17
10/31/20
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES Pacific Section: Analysis of 230Th, 232Th and 231Pa
1/1/13
12/31/17
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: Variations and Trends in Fall Precipitation over the Central United States: Issues of Physical Mechanisms, Circulation Anomalies and Boundary Forcing
6/15/08
5/31/13
Atlantic Ocean
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Pacific Ocean
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United States
Constraints on the Composition of Subducting Oceanic Crust in the Northwest Pacific Ocean Basin
7/1/10
6/30/16
Pacific Ocean
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Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
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Scripps Institute of Oceanography, CA
Continental Shelf Embayments of the Eastern Margin of the Philippines: Lamon Bay Stratification and Circulation
5/1/13
4/30/15
Pacific Ocean
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Lamon Bay
Correlation of borehole and seismic data in the Gulf of Alaska at Sites U1417, U1418, U1420 and U142
9/29/13
1/31/15
Pacific Ocean
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Gulf of Alaska
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Offshore, Alaska
Determining the Frictional Temperature Rise During the 2011 Tohoku EarthQuake
6/1/13
5/31/14
Pacific Ocean
Does Alkenone δD Record Seawater δD? Analysis of sediment, water and particulate samples from the Central Equatorial Pacific
Pacific Ocean
Establishing a Long-Term Geodetic Network at the East Pacific Rise Ridge 2000 Integrated Studies Site
4/1/07
9/30/13
Pacific Ocean
;
East Pacific Rise
FESD Type: VOICE: Volcano, Ocean, Ice, and Carbon Experiments
10/1/13
8/30/20
Global
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Pacific Ocean
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Juan de Fuca Ridge
Formation and evolution of upper oceanic crust from seismic data acquired over mature oceanic crust
9/1/16
8/31/18
Pacific Ocean
GEOTRACES Pacific section: Dissolved and particulate concentrations of selected anthropogenic radionuclides along the U.S. GEOTRACES Peru-Tahiti zonal section
1/1/13
9/30/18
Pacific Ocean
Hydrographic and Sediment-Trap Monitoring of Anoxic Soledad Basin off Baja California for Enhanced Climate Reconstructions: An Interdisciplinary Planning Workshop
7/1/09
7/31/12
Pacific Ocean
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Baja California
Integrated Pre-Feasibility Study for CO2 Geological Storage in the Cascadia Basin: Offshore Washington State and British Columbia
2/1/17
10/31/18
North America
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Pacific Ocean
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Cascadia Basin
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Washington
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Oregon
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British Columbia
Lithological Characterization and Structural Analyses of Sediments Lava Flows from Shatsky Rise Using Downhole Measurements
4/29/10
9/3/12
Pacific Ocean
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Shatsky Rise
Lithostratigraphic Characterization of the Sediment Section from IODP Expedition 324, Shatsky Rise Using Downhole Logging Data
11/4/09
9/3/12
Asia
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Pacific Ocean
Love-wave propragation in oceanic upper mantle: constraints on radial anisotropy and implications for dynamics of the asthenosphere
9/1/15
8/31/19
Pacific Ocean
Low Latitude Indian to Western Pacific, From 40E to 160E
5/1/16
4/30/19
Pacific Ocean
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Indian Ocean
Megathrust Seismic Hazard by Reflection Mapping
1/1/10
3/31/14
Pacific Ocean
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Alaska
Modification of the Stratification and Velocity Profile with in the Straits and Seas of the Indonesian Archipelago
11/1/09
10/31/12
Pacific Ocean
NSFGEO-NERC: Sulfur Cycling at Subduction Zones
9/1/19
8/31/22
Central America
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Asia
;
Pacific Ocean
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Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
;
Marianas Islands
Ocean Acidification - Category 1: Calibration and Application of the Boron Isotope Seawater-pH Indicator in Deep-water Corals
9/15/10
8/31/16
Global
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Atlantic Ocean
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Pacific Ocean
Ocean Acidification: Collaborative Research: Establishing the Magnitude of Sea-Surface Acidification During The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
9/1/12
8/31/16
Global
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Pacific Ocean
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Atlantic Ocean
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equatorial Pacific
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South Atlantic
Ocean Acidification: Collaborative Research: Quantifying the potential for the biogeochemical feedbacks to create 'refugia' from ocean acidification on tropical coral reefs
7/1/13
6/30/17
Pacific Ocean
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Palmyra Atoll
Offshore 3D High Energy Seismic Survey
11/1/11
3/31/13
Pacific Ocean
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Costa Rica
;
Aleutian islands
P2C2: Diagnosing the Dynamics of Past and Future North American Megadroughts
3/1/19
3/31/22
Global
;
Pacific Ocean
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Atlantic Ocean
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North America
Permeability and temperature in ODP/IODP Hole 1256
6/28/11
4/1/14
Pacific Ocean
Reconciling substrate specific difference in the carbon isotope Excursion marking the Paleocene-Eocene transition
7/1/15
7/31/17
Pacific Ocean
Reconstructing Slab and Mantle Fluxes during the Eocene-Oligocene Evolution of the Izu-Bonin Volcanic Arc (NW Pacific)
6/1/05
6/30/08
Pacific Ocean
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Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
;
Izu Bonin arc
Reconstructing the Paleo-Budget of 231Protactinium in the North Pacific
9/1/18
8/31/21
Pacific Ocean
Seismic/Well Integration Bering Sea, IODP Expedition 323
9/4/09
7/3/12
Pacific Ocean
Shear wave anisotropy in oceanic crust formed by superfast spreading PEA EXP. 335
6/28/11
4/1/14
Pacific Ocean
South China Sea-Indonesia Seas Transportation/Exchange (Site)
3/15/08
2/28/13
Pacific Ocean
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South China Sea
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Indonesian Seas
Spatial and temporal variability in chlorophyll, primary production and carbon export in the Bering Sea linked to climate change
8/26/11
8/25/12
Pacific Ocean
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Bering Sea
Supply and removal of trace elements in the subtropical South Pacific (UltraPac)
10/1/15
9/30/16
Pacific Ocean
Testing alkenone δD values as a paleosalinity proxy with particulate and sediment samples from the Eastern Equatorial Pacific
Pacific Ocean
Testing the Observation of Annual Seismic Velocity Variations at Axial Volcano
6/1/18
5/31/19
Pacific Ocean
;
Axial Seamount
The Dynamical Machanisms and Potential Predictability of Indian and Pacific Ocean Influences on Seas
8/1/14
7/31/18
North America
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Pacific Ocean
;
Indian Ocean
The Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf Isotope Evolution of the Mariana Island Arc
4/15/09
9/30/13
Pacific Ocean
;
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
;
Mariana Arc
Using Numerical Models of Poroelastic Fluid Flow to Constrain the Permeability Structure of Young Ocean Crust
9/1/09
8/31/12
Pacific Ocean
USSSP-Participation in IODP Expedition 322 Nantroseize Stage 2 Subduction Input on the D/V Chikyu. Correlation Between Core, Log, and Seismic Data in Lower Shikoku Basin Sediments at IODP Site C0011
9/1/09
11/9/12
Pacific Ocean
;
Shikoku Basin
;
Nankai Trough, Offshore Japan
;
Japan
Ventilation History of the Sulu Sea: Record of Abrupt Changes in the Tropical Western Pacific Thermocline
8/15/17
7/31/19
Pacific Ocean
;
Sulu Sea Basin
;
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Wireline Log-Based Stratigraphy along a Shelf-Slope Transect in the Canterbury Basin, New Zealand
1/4/10
11/3/12
Pacific Ocean
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Canterbury Basin
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Offshore, South Island of New Zealand
Aleutian - Alaska Workshop at Lamont for GeoPrisms Synthesis
8/1/19
2/29/20
Pacific Ocean
;
Aleutian-Alaska Subduction Zone
P2C2: Towards a Precipitation History of Easter Island Since the Last Glacial Period
9/1/19
8/31/21
Oceania
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Pacific Ocean
;
Easter Island
Testing an Arc Volcanism - Climate Link in a High-Latitude Plio-Pleistocene Marine Tephra Archive at ODP Site 882 (Northwest Pacific)
3/15/20
2/28/23
Pacific Ocean
;
Northwest Pacific
Collaborative Research: P2C2 - Insights Into Tropical Pacific Climate From Paleoproxy Data Assimilation Into an Intermediate Complexity Dynamical Model
6/1/20
5/31/23
Pacific Ocean
Ocean Temperatures Through Early Cenozoic Climate Maxima Across a Latitudinal Transect from the North to the South Pacific - A Multi-Proxy In Situ Approach
6/1/20
5/31/23
Pacific Ocean
Marshall Islands Maritime Investment Project - Registries Assessment and Options Technical Assistance
6/18/18
12/18/18
Pacific Ocean
;
Republic of the Marshall Islands
Evaluating and Constraining Models’ Stratocumulus and Cumulus Cloud Feedbacks in the Tropics using Satellite Observations to Reduce Uncertainties in Future Climate Projections
9/1/20
8/31/21
Pacific Ocean
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Atlantic Ocean
;
Indian Ocean
Management and Implementation of US GEOTRACES GP17 Section: South Pacific and Southern Ocean (GP17-OCE)
10/1/20
9/30/23
Pacific Ocean
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Southern Ocean
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Tahiti
;
Chile
Southern Pacific Cruise
10/1/20
9/30/21
Pacific Ocean
Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES GP17-OCE: Understanding Neodymium Isotopes and Rare Element Systematics in the South Pacific
10/1/21
9/30/24
Pacific Ocean
R/V Marcus G. Langseth - Oceanographic Instrumentation 2021
3/15/21
2/28/22
Atlantic Ocean
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Pacific Ocean
Decadal Regime Shifts in the Pacific Ocean: Mechanisms, Hydroclimatic Imprints, and Predictability
9/1/21
8/31/24
Pacific Ocean
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North America
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South America
Tracking the Movement and Strength of the Northern Hemisphere Westerlies over the Last Glacial Cycle
7/15/21
6/30/23
Pacific Ocean