Updates
Work Completed Despite Weather
STATION PAPA: The RV Sikuliaq and the science party have been experiencing some rough weather, but they still need to get the work done! This is a recovery of a Flanking Mooring that has been deployed for almost one year. The recovered equipment will come back to Woods Hole, MA for repair and refurbishment, and…
Read MoreLarge Surface Mooring Operational
IRMINGER: The large surface mooring at the OOI Irminger Sea Array is in the water and will report data from this important site for the next year. Well done team! Credit: Sheri N. White © WHOI.
Read MoreSurface Mooring Deployed
IRMINGER: The OOI-CGSN team arrived at the OOI Irminger Sea Array ahead of a storm and were able to get the large Surface Mooring deployed. Although conditions were overcast and drizzly, the winds and seas were relatively calm. The wind turbines on the buoy began to spin immediately. The wind turbines and solar panels will…
Read More8 Day Transit Provides Prep Time
IRMINGER: It takes eight days to transit from Woods Hole to the Irminger Sea. During that time, the OOI-CGSN team keeps busy preparing for their deployments. The mooring components are laid out on the back deck and connected together so that the team can run the moorings and make sure the controllers and instruments are…
Read MorePOGO Fellow Sharing Experiences
POGO Fellow Aditi Sharma is using down time aboard the R/V Sikuliaq to share her experiences during her first time at sea on a research vessel. Her comments are insightful and provide an insider’s view of life aboard the Sikuliaq. You can read her blog here. Bookmark the site as she updates her posts regularly.…
Read MoreOSNAP Blog is Live
IRMINGER: Heather Furey, Adam Houk, and Meg Yoder are aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong along with the OOI – CGSN team. The three will be recovering and deploying Overturning in the Subpolar Atlantic Program (OSNAP) moorings, as part of a long collaboration between OOI and OSNAP. Heather Furey is writing a blog about her experiences…
Read MoreFellow Learning the Ropes
STATION PAPA: India-based POGO Fellow Aditi Sharma has been busy aboard the R/V Sikuliaq in spite of the cold weather and stormy seas. It is summer in India with temperatures in the 90 plus degrees Fahrenheit. While she’s adjusting to the temperature, she’s ably “learning the ropes” of shipboard science by participating in many fantail…
Read MoreAll Hands On Deck!
STATION PAPA: Everyone needs to pitch in when deck operations are happening. Here Jim Edson (right), the Ocean Observatories Initiative Principal Investigator handles tag lines during overboarding of equipment. Tag lines are used to stabilize lifted equipment and ensure the load does not move or swing in an unsafe manner.
Read MoreHybrid Profiler Mooring in Water
STATION PAPA: The CGSN team successfully deployed a Hybrid Profiler Mooring (HYPM) at the Station Papa Array. The HYPM is in a water depth of ~4000m and is equipped with two profiling vehicles that move up and down the riser wire at regular intervals to collect data for almost the full water column.
Read MoreUW Waverider Deployed
STATION PAPA: Onboard the Sikuliaq is the OOI-CGSN team to perform the yearly Station Papa Array maintenance, but there is also a team from the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (J. Talbert, A. Larson). UW/APL joins the OOI cruise to maintain a Waverider buoy also at Station Papa. The two teams support each other…
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