{"id":1159,"date":"2019-08-28T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/?page_id=1159"},"modified":"2021-07-20T11:32:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:32:14","slug":"itp-8-deployment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/data\/completed-missions\/itp-8\/itp-8-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"ITP 008 Deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\t<h1>ITP 8 Deployment Operations<\/h1>\r\n\t<p>A survey by helicopter was conducted on August 11, 2007 to choose an icefloe between 3 and 5 m thick for deploying ITP 8.\u00a0 Extremely thin and loose ice conditions substantially limited the possibilities, but on the second landing, a suitable 3.49 m icefloe was found.\u00a0 After 5 flights to deliver the deployment team, apparatus and buoy, the ITP was installed after a routine 2.5 hour deployment.\u00a0 At the same, the icefloe was cored and surveyed by a team of scientists from UAF.<\/p>\r\n<p>More information and photos on the deployment operation are also available at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/page.do?pid=67239\">https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/page.do?pid=67239<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/DSCN2297_106243.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/DSCN2297_106243.jpg\" alt=\"Kris Newhall augers a 2\u201d hole through an icefloe to determine if it is the appropriate thickness for the deployment of ITP 8.\" height=\"2112\" width=\"2816\" title=\"DSCN2297_106243\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\tKris Newhall augers a 2\u201d hole through an icefloe to determine if it is the appropriate thickness for the deployment of ITP 8. Photo by Rick Krishfield.\r\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/DSCN2304_106246.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/DSCN2304_106246.jpg\" alt=\"The selected icefloe for the ITP deployment stands out from the surrounding meager ice conditions.\" height=\"2112\" width=\"2816\" title=\"DSCN2304_106246\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\tThe only multiyear floe in the neighborhood. The selected icefloe for the ITP deployment stands out from the surrounding meager ice conditions. Photo by Rick Krishfield.\r\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/DSCN2313_106248.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/DSCN2313_106248.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Dunn, Kris Newhall and Rick Krishfield pose with ITP 8 shortly after deployment\" height=\"2112\" width=\"2816\" title=\"DSCN2313_106248\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\tJim Dunn, Kris Newhall and Rick Krishfield pose with ITP 8 shortly after deployment (not knowing that they would visit the same icefloe two years later to recover the instrument).\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITP 8 Deployment Operations A survey by helicopter was conducted on August 11, 2007 to choose an icefloe between 3 and 5 m thick for deploying ITP 8.\u00a0 Extremely thin and loose ice conditions substantially limited the possibilities, but on the second landing, a suitable 3.49 m icefloe was found.\u00a0 After 5 flights to deliver&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"parent":1153,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tpl-sidebar.php","meta":{"advanced-sidebar-menu\/link-title":"","advanced-sidebar-menu\/exclude-page":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3429,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1159\/revisions\/3429"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}