Direct observations of the April 29, 2025, mid-ocean ridge seafloor volcanic eruption at 9°50’N, East Pacific Rise using advanced sensor and imagery technologies

Andrew S Wozniak1, Sunita R Shah Walter1, Sasha Wagner2, Mustafa Yucel3, George W Luther III1, Daniel J Fornari4, Ross Parnell-Turner5, Victoria Preston6, Vaibhav Vijay Ingale7, Adam D Skarke8, Thibaut Barreyre9, Samuel Katz10, Samuel M McNichol11 and AT50_36 Science Party, (1)University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States, (2)Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Troy, NY, United States, (3)Middle East Technical University, Mersin, Turkey, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (6)Olin College of Engineering, Needham, United States, (7)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (8)Mississippi State University, Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State, MS, United States, (9)IFREMER, Plouzané, France, (10)University of Rhode Island, Gaduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (11)McGill University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, Canada