Irminger 9
Las Actividades de Diverción
Las tardes requieren que tengas algo para entretenerte. Algunas personas trajeron sus Nintendo Switch y compartieron con todos. Depues de cenar, jugábamos Super Smash Bros Ultimate y Mario Kart en el salón. Otros trajeron juegos como Settlers of Catan, Exploding Kittens y cartas. Si quires relajarte solo, puedes ir a tú recamara y leer un…
Read MoreInto Reykjavik, Iceland
After a successful cruise and 27 days at sea, the Irminger 9 expedition pulled into Reykjavik, Iceland. Although it was a great cruise, the team was happy to be headed home. Our gear was off-loaded and the ship was prepared for the next cruise – another OSNAP expedition in the Irminger Sea area. The pilot…
Read MoreWhale sightings
NOAA Research Wildlife Biologist Peter Duley joined us again for the Irminger-9 cruise, along with the “Big Eyes” binoculars. You can read about Pete’s previous OOI adventures here and here. Pete has joined the Irminger 9 cruise specifically to look for North Atlantic right whales in the Irminger Sea. While watching for right whales, he…
Read MoreCTD casts
CTD casts are performed alongside many other scientific operations in order to validate incoming data and to calibrate instruments, they can also be performed in sea and weather conditions when other science operations like mooring deployments and recoveries cannot. Regardless of the sea state, performing these casts require teamwork and communication between the science party,…
Read MoreFood for a month
Feeding a ship’s worth of people three meals per day (plus snacks), planning meals, cleaning, and organizing stores, is constant work. Running the kitchen, or “galley” on the R/V Neil Armstrong takes approximately 35 total person-hours per day, which is typically divided between three people. On the Irminger 9 cruise the galley was staffed by steward…
Read MoreGlider missions
The OOI Irminger Sea Array consists of three mooring sites in a triangular with sides ~30 km long. The Surface Mooring at one corner of the array communicates to shore via satellite. But the other three moorings (two moorings share one of the sites) do not have a surface expression, so they need another way…
Read MoreBelow the surface
Three of the moorings the Irminger 9 team is deploying in the Irminger Sea are Subsurface Moorings, which means that the moorings are entirely underwater – there is no buoy on the surface. There are, however, multiple components that are buoyant to keep the mooring upright in the water column. There is a top sphere…
Read MorePressure effects
Although the team on the Irminger Sea 9 cruise is working hard every day – including weekends and holidays – they do try to throw in a little fun from time to time. A favorite past time on oceanographic cruises is decorating styrofoam cups and “shrinking” them by sending them into the deep ocean. On…
Read MoreFirst mooring deployed
After eight days transiting from Woods Hole to the Irminger Sea, the team is happy to be there and ready to get to work. The Surface Mooring was the first mooring deployed. It consists of a large surface buoy with meteorological instrumentation, satellite telemetry, and wind turbines and solar panels to generate power, and instrumentation…
Read MoreLight skies
The Irminger Sea Array is at ~60° N latitude, and we are just after the summer solstice. That means it doesn’t get very dark here. With overcast skies it can be hard to tell, but when the sun is out it can play havoc with your sense of time. These pictures are from 9:30 pm…
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