{"id":2010,"date":"2021-01-06T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/?page_id=2010"},"modified":"2021-01-06T11:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:18:32","slug":"dispatch-20-barreling-through-the-barrow-line","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/expeditions\/2020-expedition\/2020-dispatches\/dispatch-20-barreling-through-the-barrow-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch 20: Barreling through the Barrow Line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h1>Dispatch 20: Barreling through the Barrow Line<\/h1>\n\t<h3>Kim Bedard<\/h3>\n<h3>September 26, 2020<\/h3>\n<p>After receiving permission from the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission in Utqiagvik (Barrow) and the Whaling Captain in Nuiqut, we made our way towards the Barrow Line &#8211; a series of eight stations that run up the continental slope towards the northern coast of Alaska. The productive water that passes through here originates in the Pacific and having made its way through the Bering Strait, will continue along the shelf and into the Canada Basin.\u00a0 The first of our stations starts at 3500m with each following station 500m shallower.\u00a0 The slope gets quite steep and the distance between stations range from just 2 to 10 nautical miles apart, making the time between stations very limited as the sampling team scurries around filling sample bottles from the rosette.\u00a0 Despite two of these eight stations being CTD-only with no water samples, the team still managed to collect a total of 861 samples!\u00a0 Bongo nets were used at every second station to collect zooplankton &#8211; this is where the productivity of these waters could really be seen.\u00a0 In addition to the rich volume of chaetognaths, as well as amphipods, copepods and euphausiids, the green sticky cells of phytoplankton filled the nets and sample jars.\u00a0 This eventful line took 17.5 hours to complete and was a collaborative effort by all science crew as well as many of the ship&#8217;s crew operating winches and communicating transit times between stations.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2021\/01\/dispatch20-1_slideshow_520915.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2021\/01\/dispatch20-1_slideshow_520915.jpg\" alt=\"Edmand Fok, Jasmine Wietzke, Kim Bedard, and Mike Dempsey\" height=\"512\" width=\"700\" title=\"dispatch20-1_slideshow_520915\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tWith the support of both all science and ship crew, the science night shift was able to complete the Barrow Line overnight. From Left to Right: Edmand Fok, Jasmine Wietzke, Kim Bedard, and Mike Dempsey. (Nina Nemcek)\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2021\/01\/dispatch20-2_slideshow_520913.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2021\/01\/dispatch20-2_slideshow_520913.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Bedard during one of the overnight zooplankton tows on the Barrow Line.\" height=\"512\" width=\"700\" title=\"dispatch20-2_slideshow_520913\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tKim Bedard during one of the overnight zooplankton tows on the Barrow Line. (Jasmine Wietzke)\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2021\/01\/dispatch20-3_slideshow_520893.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/beaufortgyre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2021\/01\/dispatch20-3_slideshow_520893.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy conditions for the night casts.\" height=\"700\" width=\"512\" title=\"dispatch20-3_slideshow_520893\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tSnowy conditions for the night casts. 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