Posts Tagged ‘Global Irminger Sea’

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.

Pedal to the metal!  The R/V Neil Armstrong departed Reykjavik, Iceland Aug. 28th and is enroute to the Irminger Array off Greenland as fast as possible to start glider and mooring operations ahead of storms that are closing in….

Everything is loaded and the team is ready to go.  The Global Surface Mooring, the largest Irminger Mooring, is placed beneath the a-frame ready for deployment.  Chris Basque, John Jordan, Mackenzie Stuart prepare deck equipment and complete the final connections of all the riser components.  The riser connects the buoy to the anchor, but also…

It can be a tight fit.  Before loading, the Global Surface Buoy must be assembled, and instruments mounted and cabled.  Here Mackenzie Stuart prepares to place the buoy well and tower into the buoyancy foam.  Once that is done, James Kuo and Chris Basque get to work mounting the instruments and running the power and…

The R/V Neil Armstrong has arrived in Reykjavik! The team has started loading all the Irminger materials onto the vessel. Once onboard, the team will perform final assembly of the moorings and make ready for departure.

Once the mooring build is complete, the mobilization team can focus on the mobile assets.  Three gliders are planned for deployment at the Irminger Array and satellite and acoustic communications must be tested prior to mobilizing on the research vessel.  The vehicles are placed outside and in proximity to the subsurface moorings to verify sending…

The Irminger cruise team continues to make progress building the moorings in Reykjavik, Iceland. The mooring systems are integrated and then “burned in.” This is a test period for the power, data, telemetry, and instrument systems to ensure everything is operational prior to loading the vessel. Above James Kuo and Irene Duran verify the operation…