Updates
Cross-Shelf CTD Survey and Halloween
The waves and winds are still too intense to safely deploy a mooring today, so we are conducting a cross-shelf CTD survey from Pioneers’ Upstream Offshore (450 meters depth) site to the Upstream Inshore (95 meters depth) site. This is one of OOI’s objectives and provides a general scientific assessment of the shelf break area. …
Read MoreGlider Day at Pioneer 17
Inclement weather has made us slightly adjust our schedule of what to put into the water each day. Today started off with a glider deployment. Gliders are an integral part of the OOI and are operated at both the Coastal and Global Arrays. Gliders at the Coastal Arrays (Pioneer and Endurance) sample the water space…
Read MoreFinally at Sea
The 14 members of the Pioneer 17 science party were all onboard the R/V Neil Armstrong at 9 am sharp on Friday 29 October. All were eager to head out to the array, which is about 75 nautical miles south of Martha’s Vineyard after a three-day weather delay caused by a roaring nor’easter. The storm…
Read MoreCruise Update
The Pioneer 17 team of scientists and engineers departed aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong from Woods Hole, MA for the Pioneer Array, 75 nautical miles south of Martha’s Vineyard on 29 October. Our departure was originally scheduled for three days earlier, but the weather kicked up and presented challenges to conduct the recovery and deployment…
Read MoreBefore Departure
Once recovered, the moorings are refurbished for the next recovery and deployment mission. This work is done at the Quissett campus of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which is about two miles from the Woods Hole dock. Prior to Pioneer 17, three coastal surface moorings had to be uploaded on a flatbed truck and transported to…
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