Surface Moorings

A surface mooring being readied to load onto a ship. Credit: David Neiman, OSU

During the Coastal Endurance 16 expedition, the team will deploy and recover six  surface moorings, one profiler moorings, and recover three gliders.  The team will also be conducting missions with gliders to take oceanographic observations in the vicinity of the moorings. These observations serve to validate observations at the moored sites, as well as expand the area from which data are collected.

Another activity that will be undertaken is CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth) casts with water sampling at the deployment and recovery sites, and comparisons of ship versus buoy meteorological measurements at surface mooring sites.  We will use this space to explain each of these activities and how they help contribute to data collection and better understanding of what is happening in a changing ocean.