Posts Tagged ‘Coastal Endurance Array’
Dissuading Pesky Sea Lions
California sea-lions haul out on Endurance Array shelf buoys during the day. These buoys ride higher at night, which corresponds to when the sea-lions leave to feed. Aluminum guards keep the sea-lions off the solar panels and prevent sea-lions from chewing wires and connectors. The team sprayed off biofouling after getting the buoy on board.
Read MoreCoastal Piercing Profiler Deployment
A Coastal Surface Piercing Profiler is headed overboard. In the background is the Oregon Inshore Surface Mooring 150 meters away. They are deployed near each other so the Endurance 20 team can command the profiler while it is underwater. There is a cellular connection with the surface mooring. The mooring and the profiler each have…
Read MoreUNOLS Volunteers Leg 2
On this cruise leg, the two UNOLS Cruise Volunteers who joined the Endurance 20 team are graduate students Malik Jordan and Ellery Ohlwiler. Here they are guiding stretch hose into the ocean behind a buoy. Behind them is the MultiFunction Node of this mooring, which includes its anchor.
Read MoreBack in Port
The R/V Sikuliaq’s starboard crane is lifting the bases of the Endurance 20 moorings onto the ship. The bases of the moorings, Multi-Function Nodes, house anchors and instruments. They are different colors because the one that will be deployed in shallow water has blue antifouling paint. At approximately 11,000 lbs., MFNs are the heaviest items…
Read MoreWeather Not Cooperating
The Endurance 20 team was not able to accomplish what they had planned for today (April 5, 2024) because seas were too rough. They pegged one of the ship’s clinometers while assessing conditions outside of the Newport jetties. See bubble in the upper right past 20 degrees.
Read MoreWinches and Cranes Galore
Working smarter, not harder. A picture of many heavy objects being moved without anyone carrying anything by hand aboard the R/V Sikuliaq during the Endurance 20 expedition. Note the bear tracks on the roof in recognition of Oregon State University’s mascot, “Benny the Bear.”
Read MoreCrabs Galore
Image of crab pots surrounding the ship as the R/V Sikuliaq and the Endurance 20 team were adjacent to the Washington Inshore Surface Mooring. The primary purpose of this radar is to detect sea ice, but it works well on crab pot floats too. The circle’s radius is ¾ nm.
Read MoreNew Pier!
The NSF-OOI Endurance Array team from Oregon State University is proud to be mobilizing from OSU’s newly renovated pier. The light-colored concrete in the picture shows the area over the pylons that were replaced. Next to the causeway, the crew of the R/V Sikuliaq is fishing out a large log from the water. Go Beavs!
Read MoreMobilization Underway
The Endurance 20 team took advantage of the good weather to load most of what was needed for the first leg of the National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative Endurance Array 20 expedition. Most of the day was spent installing and tension testing two large winches: a Heavy Lift Winch and the UNOLS West Coast…
Read MoreAnchors, then Away
Two anchors were recovered — the Washington Offshore Profiling mooring anchor and the Washington Offshore surface mooring anchor — and the R/V Atltantis and the Endurance 19 team headed for Astoria and home. The team arrived in port on Saturday October 7 to begin the process of offloading the quite full ship, then loading trucks…
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