Station Papa 11
Aerial View
STATION PAPA: This is the back deck of the RV Sikuliaq while in transit to the Station Papa Array. Visible are all the buoyancy spheres, recovery flotation, and mooring wire reels needed to deploy the three subsurface moorings.
Read MoreBuild, Test, Load
STATION PAPA: The OOI-CGSN team completed the build, testing, and loading of the Station Papa Array moorings onto the RV Sikuliaq in Seward, AK. The team will deploy three subsurface moorings, two profiling vehicles, and two gliders along with performing CTD casts and water sampling.
Read MorePOGO Fellow Aboard
STATION PAPA: Aditi Sharma, a PhD candidate at the National Institute of Oceanography India, made her way from Mumbai to Boston last week in preparation for a subsequent flight to Anchorage and drive to Seward, Alaska to board the R/V Sikuliaq. Before heading into the air again, she spent a few days at Woods Hole…
Read MoreR/V Sikuliaq
The 261-foot R/V Sikuliaq is one of the most advanced university research vessels in the world, capable of breaking ice up to 2.5 feet thick.
Pronounced [see-KOO-lee-auk], the vessel is owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, as part of the U.S. academic research fleet.
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