Posts Tagged ‘Coastal Endurance Array’
Deployment and Recovery
The work continues. On Tuesday, October 4, the Endurance 19 Team aboard the R/V Atlantis deployed the Washington Shelf surface mooring, making room on the back deck for the recovery of the Washington Inshore mooring. After its recovery, the team proceeded to clean the Inshore mooring that had a heavy layer of biofouling caked on,…
Read MoreNature’s Gifts
Sometimes while at sea nature offers up lovely gifts to compensate for other less-than-ideal working conditions. During the Endurance 19 Expedition, the team and crew of the R/V Atlantis were treated to a fogbow, glorious sunrise, and a starfish who tagged along to say hello during an anchor retrieval.
Read MoreWork and Weather Continue
On October 2, the Endurance 19 Team successfully deployed the Oregon inshore surface mooring (CE01ISSM). The waves were high, the weather gray, and the air cold, but the Team carried on to accomplish its objectives in the remaining days of the expedition.
Read MoreHumor Needed
A sense of humor is often required when weather and sea conditions are less than ideal yet the job needs to get done. Here, Technician Raelynn Heinitz and Deck Lead Alex Wick demonstrate their good humor as caught by the digital still camera of the bottom lander, while they were testing acoustic releases on deck…
Read MoreMoorings Recovered
The weather finally settled down enough for the Endurance 19 Team to get back to sea and continue mooring recoveries and deployments. During Leg 2, the Team aboard the R/V Atlantis deployed, the Oregon Shelf Surface Mooring and Offshore Surface Mooring. These deployments made room on the ship for the recovery of the Inshore and Offshore…
Read MoreBarnacles Galore
Gooseneck barnacles just love OOI moorings. After spending six months in the Pacific, this coastal mooring profiler recovered by the Endurance 19 Team was covered in barnacles.
Read MoreBack at It
After three weather days in the port of Astoria due to high seas and winds that would not allow at-sea operations to be done safely, the R/V Atlantis and the Endurance 19 Team headed back to sea. The ship left Astoria at 1635 PDT on Wednesday September 27 to begin leg 2 of the cruise…
Read MoreLeg 1 Getting the Job Done
The Endurance Team worked hard all day and into the night to accomplish the recovery and deployment tasks for leg 1 of the Endurance 19 expedition aboard the R/V Atlantis. In spite of their best efforts, conditions drove them back to port to wait out the storm and conditions in which they could again…
Read MoreAnd They’re Off!
Gliders are an important component of the Coastal Endurance Array. They collect data from the water column in between the moorings. The first tasks of the Endurance 19 expedition were the deployment of two gliders at the Washington Offshore site–Glider 320 (Grays Harbor Deep) and Glider 382 (Grays Harbor Shallow). Glider lead Stuart Pearce, shown…
Read MoreR/V Atlantis
The R/V Atlantis is owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as part of the UNOLS fleet. Atlantis is the only ship outfitted to launch and service the human-occupied submersible, Alvin. The Atlantis is also equipped to support general oceanographic research, with more than 3,500 square feet of laboratory space for dedicated use by the…
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