Endurance 19
19th Recovery and Deployment of Coastal Endurance Array Fall Expedition to Coastal Endurance Array Every six months, the Coastal Endurance Array team heads offshore from the Oregon and Washington coasts to recover and redeploy its ocean observing network. This bi-annual maintenance of the array ensures continual collecting and sharing of critical ocean data. On September…
Irminger 10
Irminger 10: Tackling the Tough Northern Atlantic Month-long Expedition to Refresh Irminger Sea Array On August 27 2023, a team of 13 scientists and engineers will board the R/V Neil Armstrong in Reykjavik Iceland to head to the Irminger Sea Array. Most of the array’s infrastructure and instrumentation was shipped from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution…
RCA VISIONS 23
RCA VISIONS 23: 41-Day Operations and Maintenance Expedition Ninth Expedition to Refresh Regional Cabled Array OOI’s Regional Cabled Array team will be spending the month of August and into September 2023 in the Pacific for its annual Operations and Maintenance Expedition to ensure the cabled component and instrumentation remain operational for another year. The operation…
Pioneer MAB Test Deployment
Pioneer Mid-Atlantic Bight Test Deployment February-March Expedition to Test Deployments in Prep for Move to Southern Mid-Atlantic Bight Test deployments in preparation for installation of an Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) ocean observing system in a new location in the southern Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB) will take place over the next two weeks – February 21-March 1, 2023. …
Endurance 18
Endurance 18: Bi-Annual Recovery and Deploy Mission Winter Expedition to Coastal Endurance Array Equipment becomes fouled as marine life makes it home. Batteries run out. Wind and waves take their toll. That’s why every six months, the Coastal Endurance Array team heads offshore of Oregon and Washington. The Endurance Team left the harbor in Newport,…
Endurance 17
Endurance 17: Bi-Annual Recovery and Deploy Mission September 2022 Expedition to Coastal Endurance Array Equipment becomes fouled as marine life makes it home. Batteries run out. Wind and waves take their toll. That’s why every six months, teams head to OOI arrays to recover and redeploy ocean observing equipment to keep them collecting and sharing…
RCA VISIONS’22
RCA VISIONS 22: Annual Operation and Maintenance Expedition August Expedition to Refresh Regional Cabled Array OOI’s Regional Cabled Array team will be spending the month of August 2022 in the Pacific for its annual Operations and Maintenance Expedition to ensure the cabled component and instrumentation remain operational for another year. The operation is so complex…
Irminger 9
Irminger Sea 9: Annual Recovery and Deploy Mission Month-long Expedition to Refresh Irminger Sea Array A team of 15 scientists and engineers will head to the Irminger Sea in late June (June 20 – July 17, 2022) to recover and deploy four moorings and three gliders in this most important but remote ocean region. The…
Global Station Papa 9
Station Papa 9: Annual Recovery and Deployment Mission Recoveries and Deployments for Station Papa, NOAA, and UW A team of ten scientists and engineers is aboard the R/V Sikuliaq for a 19-day expedition (May 11 – 30, 2022) to deploy six moorings – three for OOI, two for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and…
Pioneer 18
Pioneer 18: Bi-Annual Recovery and Deploy Mission April Expedition to Refresh Pioneer Array Sixteen science party members will be on board the R/V Neil Armstrong during April for each of two legs comprising the eighteenth turn of the Pioneer Array, where moorings are recovered and new ones deployed. This April cruise (April 8 – 28,…