Instruments Post 1

During the Pioneer 17 expedition, the team will deploy and recover three coastal surface moorings, deploy six and recover five coastal profiler moorings, and recover one glider.  The team will also be conducting missions with autonomous underwater vehicles, pictured above, 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.

The team also will be using a remotely operated vehicle to aid in the recovery of two anchors,  a coastal profiler mooring, and a CTD rosette. Two other activities that will be undertaken are 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.