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Whale sightings

By dtrewcrist | July 14, 2022

NOAA Research Wildlife Biologist Peter Duley joined us again for the Irminger-9 cruise, along with the “Big Eyes” binoculars. You can read about Pete’s previous OOI adventures here and here. Pete has joined the Irminger 9 cruise specifically to look for North Atlantic right whales in the Irminger Sea. While watching for right whales, he…

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Glider missions

By dtrewcrist | July 11, 2022

The OOI Irminger Sea Array consists of three mooring sites in a triangular with sides ~30 km long. The Surface Mooring at one corner of the array communicates to shore via satellite. But the other three moorings (two moorings share one of the sites) do not have a surface expression, so they need another way…

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