{"id":1290,"date":"2019-08-29T12:16:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/?page_id=1290"},"modified":"2021-07-20T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:49:51","slug":"itp-12-deployment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/data\/completed-missions\/itp-12\/itp-12-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"ITP 012 Deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\t<h1>ITP 12 Deployment Operations<\/h1>\r\n\t<p>In the first summer of the International Polar Year (IPY), over the Lomonosov ridge of the central Arctic Ocean, a \u201cSuper Buoy Array\u201d consisting of ITP12, IMB, AOFB and ITAC was deployed overnight by an international team of scientists from Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Shirshov Institute of Oceanography, and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology.\u00a0 The ice cover in the region was thin, making floe selection difficult.\u00a0 Helicopter, reconnaissance flights were conducted and floes several were landed on and drilled for thickness determinations.\u00a0 Once the floe was selected and the ship docked to it, a substantial ice thickness survey was conducted using an EM31 on a sled.\u00a0 The equipment for the buoys was lowered over the side and hauled to selected areas of the floe and deployed.\u00a0 Drilling the large diameter hole for the ITAC provided certain difficulties, but otherwise the systems were installed as expected.<\/p>\r\n<p>More information on the buoy deployments\u00a0and expedition\u00a0is\u00a0provided\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10013\/epic.30947\">ARK-XXII\/2 cruise report<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/SBA_106610.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\/SBA_106610.jpg\" alt=\"Ice thickness survey using the EM31 sled at the \u201cSuper Buoy\u201d site, with marks at buoy deployment locations.\" height=\"2221\" width=\"1613\" title=\"SBA_106610\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\tIce thickness survey using the EM31 sled at the \u201cSuper Buoy\u201d site, with marks at buoy deployment locations.\r\n(Courtesy of Ben Rabe)\r\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/IMG_3976_aerealview_zoom_106612.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\/IMG_3976_aerealview_zoom_106612.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial photo of the ITP deployment site after drilling the 11\u201d diameter hole\" height=\"2112\" width=\"2816\" title=\"IMG_3976_aerealview_zoom_106612\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\tAerial photo of the ITP deployment site after drilling the 11\u201d diameter hole, but before deploying the instrument.\r\n(Photo by Ben Rabe)\r\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/ITP12SuperBuoyArrayaerealphotograph_513253.png\" 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\/ITP12SuperBuoyArrayaerealphotograph_513253.png\" alt=\"SuperBuoy array as deployed.\" height=\"724\" width=\"1035\" title=\"ITP12SuperBuoyArrayaerealphotograph_513253\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\tSuperBuoy array as deployed.\r\n(Photo by L. Rabenstein)\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITP 12 Deployment Operations In the first summer of the International Polar Year (IPY), over the Lomonosov ridge of the central Arctic Ocean, a \u201cSuper Buoy Array\u201d consisting of ITP12, IMB, AOFB and ITAC was deployed overnight by an international team of scientists from Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Shirshov Institute of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"parent":1286,"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\/1290"}],"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=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1290\/revisions\/3446"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}