Posts Tagged ‘Coastal Endurance’
And, We’re Off!
The R/V Thomas G. Thompson left the Newport pier at noon Pacific time today for the 17th recovery and deployment mission of the Coastal Endurance Array. Departure occurred after two safety briefings—the first by the Endurance Team Deck Lead Alex Wick, the second by the ship’s captain and crew. Safety is the number one priority…
Read MoreLive from the Thompson
Chief Scientist Jonathan Fram appeared live from onboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson to explain OOI and the Endurance 17 operations. To watch, click here.
Read MoreLive ship-shore video: Sept 21
Mark your calendar to tune in to a rare opportunity to see live OOI action from the R/V Thomas G. Thompson: Wednesday September 21 at noon eastern. Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants will be interviewing Chief Scientist Jonathan Fram as he and his team get ready to depart on the 17th recovery and deployment expedition of the…
Read MoreSediment trap signatures
During Endurance 16, the R/V Sikuliaq went out to the OOI Regional Cabled Array Slope Base site to turn a sediment trap as part of Jenn Fehrenbacher’s (Oregon State Univ.) and Claudia Benitez-Nelson and Eric Tappa’s (Univ. South Carolina) foram ecology investigation. It’s a tradition for folks to sign the traps as they are put…
Read MorePort day
The Endurance 16 team deploys enough equipment on the Endurance mooring cruises that they have a port stop to unload the gear deployed on leg 1 and load the leg 2 gear. It goes pretty fast. Within 24 hrs, the team has the leg 1 gear unloaded and the leg 2 gear loaded and tested. …
Read MoreCrane castle
For OOI Endurance mooring operations, the team relies on the excellent lifting equipment offered by the R/V Sikuliaq. Here a recovered surface buoy (about 20 ft tall and 10,000 lbs) is being repositioned using the red starboard crane while science party and deck crew keep things under control with tag lines controlled by air tuggers. …
Read MoreWet Lab view
On this cruise, most of the work occurs on deck as the team deploys and recovers oceanographic moorings. However, at each site, the team takes water samples to compare to the deployed mooring instruments. Here , Marnie Jo Zirbel caps a sample bottle in the wet lab while Jonathan Whitefield goes to draw another seawater…
Read MorePre-deployment checkout
Each OOI oceanographic mooring carries more than 20 sensors and takes months to prepare for deployment. To make sure everything is working and ready to deploy, Akhil Salim and Kristin Politano review the checklist at the mooring’s bottom lander. In the foreground (red disks), is the top of an acoustic Doppler current profiler. It looks…
Read MoreWorking to the weather
Spring in the North Pacific can bring pretty high winds and seas. When the Endurance 16 team gets good weather, they press on through long days. Here Alex Wick and Kristin Politano get a subsurface float into position on the R/V Sikuliaq during an evening mooring deployment on the OOI Spring Endurance cruise.
Read MoreFirst mooring deployment completed
The Endurance 16 OOI science party and R/V Sikuliaq crew deploy the Washington shelf mooring. The new mooring will sit side-by-side for a few days with the mooring deployed in September to cross-validate the data.
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