Posts Tagged ‘R/V Neil Armstrong’
Radiometer Captures Eclipse
The radiometer (light sensor) on the R/V Neil Armstrong’s bow mast sensed the partial eclipse. Sunday 4/7 was a pretty clear day. The radiation increases relatively smoothly towards midday (16:00 UTC is local noon), peaking near 1000 watts per square meter, and then drops off again. Today (4/8) was a very clear, no clouds in…
Read MoreA View From Below
Not a view many get to see! Chief Engineer Pete Marczak waving from the stern and Irene Duran, Jennifer Batryn, and Dee Emrich standing in the Charleston, SC drydock give a good sense of the size of the RV Neil Armstrong below the waterline.
Read MoreBack at it again!
After a couple days of rest in my own bed, I returned to the R/V Neil Armstrong for the final leg of the trip yesterday morning. This science party for Leg 2 is a little different from Leg 1 party as it is made up of scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution…
Read MoreCross-Shelf CTD Survey and Halloween
The waves and winds are still too intense to safely deploy a mooring today, so we are conducting a cross-shelf CTD survey from Pioneers’ Upstream Offshore (450 meters depth) site to the Upstream Inshore (95 meters depth) site. This is one of OOI’s objectives and provides a general scientific assessment of the shelf break area. …
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