Posts Tagged ‘Global Irminger Sea’

IRMINGER: In addition to fixed moorings, the OOI Irminger Sea Array consists of autonomous gliders.  Two gliders were deployed to the array for a one year deployment, and one glider deployed last year was recovered.  The gliders sit on the back deck prior to deployment so that the glider team on shore can communicate with…

IRMINGER: The large surface mooring at the OOI Irminger Sea Array is in the water and will report data from this important site for the next year. Well done team! Credit: Sheri N. White © WHOI.

IRMINGER: The OOI-CGSN team arrived at the OOI Irminger Sea Array ahead of a storm and were able to get the large Surface Mooring deployed. Although conditions were overcast and drizzly, the winds and seas were relatively calm. The wind turbines on the buoy began to spin immediately. The wind turbines and solar panels will…

IRMINGER: It takes eight days to transit from Woods Hole to the Irminger Sea.  During that time, the OOI-CGSN team keeps busy preparing for their deployments.  The mooring components are laid out on the back deck and connected together so that the team can run the moorings and make sure the controllers and instruments are…

IRMINGER: The Irminger 11 team aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong left the WHOI Dock at noon on Sunday, June 2, a beautiful summer day.  The ship was loaded down with moorings to deploy at the OOI Irminger Sea Array off the tip of Greenland. A crowd took advantage of the weather to see the team…

IRMINGER: A team from Boston College was aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong on Thursday May 30 to get a first-hand look at where they will be spending the next month at sea. Meg Yoder (far left) will serve as advisor to student participants Ayden Schirmacher (in blue) and Emma Brown (in yellow).  They will be…

IRMINGER: The Coastal and Global Scale Nodes team has been busy loading the deck of the R/V Neil Armstrong to head off to the Global Irminger Sea Array on June 2.  Here Mike Robinson (left) and Dan Bogorff secure the subsurface mooring components in preparation for the nearly month long journey at sea.

The weather finally cleared up enough over the weekend for mooring recovery operations at OOI’s Global Irminger Sea Array to happen. Here Chris Basque directs the recovery of floats, in spite of the rocky waves and potential wet feet. Video credit: John Lund © WHOI.