ITP 114 Overview
Deployment Location: 9/20/2019, 21:00 UTC at 77° 57.9’ N, 145° 0.1’ W
Recovered Location: 9/29/2020, 18:00 UTC at 73° 50.0’ N, 140° 12.5’ W
Duration: 375 days
Distance Travelled: 3912 km
Number of profiles: 4408 in 374 days
Other instruments: SVP, ACB
ITP114 was deployed on a 0.8 m thick ice floe in the Beaufort Sea on September 20, 2019 as part of the Stratified Ocean Dynamics of the Arctic (SODA) project from the USCGC Healy. On the same icefloe, a SVP and acoustic communications buoy were also installed. The ITP includes a second generation prototype MAVS current sensor operating on a pattern profiling schedule including 2 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day and SBE-37 microcats fixed at 5m and 6 m depths.
ITP 114 surface package and 2 microcats were recovered during JOIS 2020.