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Large Surface Mooring Operational

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.

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Surface Mooring Deployed

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…

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8 Day Transit Provides Prep Time

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…

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OSNAP Blog is Live

IRMINGER:  Heather Furey, Adam Houk, and Meg Yoder are aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong along with the OOI – CGSN team.  The three will be recovering and deploying Overturning in the Subpolar Atlantic Program (OSNAP) moorings, as part of a long collaboration between OOI and OSNAP. Heather Furey is writing a blog about her experiences…

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Safety Drills

IRMINGER: Chief Mate Chris Manka showed Boston College student, Ayden Schirmacher, how to don an immersion suit (commonly called a “Gumby” suit) designed to keep you warm and afloat if you have to abandon ship. The first order of business at sea is conducting safety briefings and drills.  Chief Mate Chris Manka shows the team…

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And We’re Off!

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…

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BC Biogeochemical Researchers

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…

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Securing Back Deck

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.

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