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- Endurance 16
- Endurance 17
- Endurance 18
- Endurance 19
- Endurance 20
- Endurance 21
- Endurance 22
- Irminger 9
- Irminger 10
- Irminger 11
- Irminger 12
- Pioneer 17
- Pioneer 18
- Pioneer 19
- Pioneer 21
- Pioneer MAB At-Sea Tests
- Pioneer MAB Initial Deployment
- Pioneer MAB Test Deployment
- RCA VISIONS 22
- RCA VISIONS 23
- RCA VISIONS 24
- RCA VISIONS 25
- Station Papa 10
- Station Papa 11
- Station Papa 12
- Station Papa 9
Glider deployments
Three gliders will be deployed during Pioneer 18 and remain in the water for the next six months, collecting data in the water column between…
Remotely operated vehicle operations
Weather conditions and time constraints during the Pioneer 17 cruise precluded complete recovery of the Offshore and Upstream Offshore Profiler Moorings. If time and conditions…
Two-leg expedition
The Pioneer 18 Recovery and Deployment mission will be conducted in two legs. The back deck of the R/V Armstrong will be filled with equipment…
Crane castle
For OOI Endurance mooring operations, the team relies on the excellent lifting equipment offered by the R/V Sikuliaq. Here a recovered surface buoy (about 20…
Wet Lab view
On this cruise, most of the work occurs on deck as the team deploys and recovers oceanographic moorings. However, at each site, the team takes…
Pre-deployment checkout
Each OOI oceanographic mooring carries more than 20 sensors and takes months to prepare for deployment. To make sure everything is working and ready to…
Working to the weather
Spring in the North Pacific can bring pretty high winds and seas. When the Endurance 16 team gets good weather, they press on through long…
First mooring deployment completed
The Endurance 16 OOI science party and R/V Sikuliaq crew deploy the Washington shelf mooring. The new mooring will sit side-by-side for a few days…
Gliders are in the water
The Endurance 16 team completed its first operation of the Spring 2022 OOI Endurance cruise. Here Linus Stoltz (left) and Jonathan Whitefield (right) prepare…
Putting it all together
From left to right Stuart Pearce, Steve Lambert, and Kristin Politano connect the electrical-mechanical (EM) chain at the base of the Washington shelf buoy. Before…
Getting shipshape
The deck of R/V Sikuliaq on day 2 of loading for OOI Endurance 16 cruise. Most of the gear the team needs for leg 1…
Sediment trap mooring
This image shows nearly all the equipment that comprises a typical sediment trap mooring. Syntactic buoys (yellow balls on left and ready for deployment), railroad…
Friendly float
This float is part of the sediment trap deployment. Someone added a smiley face to let sealife know that we mean no harm.
Sediment Trap
This is a McLane Mark VII 13 cup Sediment Trap, which is used to collect a time-series of material falling through the water column. …
Acoustic Releases
Two Teledyne/Benthos R12K Acoustic Releases are connected in tandem as they await deployment. The Acoustic Releases are deployed as part of the anchor assembly for…
Profiler Moorings
The Coastal Endurance Array includes five profiler moorings deployed inshore, at the shelf, and offshore. These moorings take measurements up and down the water column….
Surface Moorings
During the Coastal Endurance 16 expedition, the team will deploy and recover six surface moorings, one profiler moorings, and recover three gliders. The team will…
Work Underway
The Coastal Endurance Array is complex, consisting of multiple components to gather ocean observations and send them to shore. Once the moorings and their instrumentation…
R/V Sikuliaq
The 261-foot R/V Sikuliaq is one of the most advanced university research vessels in the world, capable of breaking ice up to 2.5 feet thick.
Pronounced [see-KOO-lee-auk], the vessel is owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, as part of the U.S. academic research fleet.
