ITP32

ITP32 Overview

Deployment Location: 10/4/2009, 02:40 UTC at 80° 19.4’N, 151° 45.7’W

Last Location: 10/14/2010, 23:00 UTC at 75° 6.7’ N, 137° 53.7’ W

Duration: 376 days

Distance Traveled: 1771 km

Number of profiles: 257 in 128 days

Other instruments: none

ITP 32 was deployed on a 3 m thick ice floe (in the same hole through the ice formerly occupied by ITP 8) in the Beaufort Sea as part of the Beaufort Gyre Observing System (BGOS) during the JOIS 2009 cruise on the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent. The ITP operated on a standard sampling schedule of 2 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day.

ITP 32 rests in the same hole through the ice that ITP 8 was recovered from, as the last slingload of gear is transported back to the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent by the ship's helicopter.

After a long cold day and with dusk approaching, ITP 32 rests in the same hole through the ice that ITP 8 was recovered from, as the last slingload of gear is transported back to the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent by the ship's helicopter. (Rick Krishfield)