{"id":6163,"date":"2026-03-03T12:02:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/?page_id=6163"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:06:00","slug":"itp117-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/data\/completed-missions\/itp117-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"ITP 117 Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h1>ITP 117 Overview<\/h1>\n\t<p><strong>Deployment Location:<\/strong> 9\/19\/2019, 20:00 UTC at 80\u00b0 55.0&#8242; N, 135\u00b0 31.9&#8242; W<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recovered Location:<\/strong> 9\/30\/2020, 23:00 UTC at 71\u00b0 17.4&#8242; N, 140\u00b0 13.6&#8242; W<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duration:<\/strong> 377 days<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distance Travelled:<\/strong> 3028 km<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number of profiles:<\/strong> 205 in 103 days<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other instruments:<\/strong> S-IMB, TOP1<\/p>\n<p>ITP117 was deployed on a 1.35 m ice floe in the Beaufort Sea on September 19, 2019 as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/beaufortgyre\">Beaufort Gyre Observing System (BGOS) <\/a>during the JOIS 2019 cruise on the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent. On the same icefloe, a prototype Tethered Ocean Profiler (TOP), and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imb-crrel-dartmouth.org\/imb.crrel\/SeasonalIBinst.htm\">US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Seasonal Ice Mass Balance Buoy 3 <\/a>was also installed. The ITP operated on a standard sampling schedule of 2 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day and included a fixed SAMI PCO2 with ODO and PAR at 5 m depth.<\/p>\n<p>The following year, the entire ITP with profiler was recovered during JOIS 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/data\/completed-missions\/itp117-overview\/itp117-deployment\/\">Deployment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/data\/completed-missions\/itp117-overview\/itp117-recovery\/\">Recovery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/data\/completed-missions\/itp117-overview\/itp117-data-processing\/\">Data Processing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/data\/completed-missions\/itp117-overview\/itp117-final-data\/\">Final Data<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2026\/03\/20190920_012416s.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2026\/03\/20190920_012416s.jpg\" alt=\"Ice-Based Observatory consisting of (from front to back) ITP 117, S-IMB, and TOP 1.  (Photo by Marshall Swartz)\" height=\"953\" width=\"774\" title=\"BGOS2019 ITP\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tIce-Based Observatory consisting of (from front to back) ITP 117, S-IMB, and TOP 1.  (Photo by Marshall Swartz)\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2026\/03\/DR-IMGP0389s.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2026\/03\/DR-IMGP0389s.jpg\" alt=\"ITP 117 is found drifting between icefloes the following year after being deployed.  (Photo by Dave Riedel)\" height=\"1500\" width=\"2250\" title=\"DR-IMGP0389s\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tITP 117 is found drifting between icefloes the following year after being deployed.  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