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- Endurance 16
- Endurance 17
- Endurance 18
- Endurance 19
- Endurance 20
- Endurance 21
- Endurance 22
- Irminger 10
- Irminger 11
- Irminger 9
- 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
- Station Papa 9
- Station Papa 10
- Station Papa 11
- Station Papa 12
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.
Coastal Endurance Array
Located in the Northeast Pacific Ocean off the coasts of Oregon and Washington, the Coastal Endurance Array is part of a regional observatory network that includes OOI, Station Papa, and Ocean Networks Canada. Measurements taken by this network collectively capture variability of ocean properties across a broad range of temporal and spatial scales. They allow examination of ocean health issues, including hypoxia, ocean acidification, and harmful algal blooms.
CTD Rosettes
An activity that happens on every Coastal Endurance cruise are CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth) casts. CTDs are used to collect water samples at the…
Buenos Dias!
Mi nombre es Irene Duran. Mis padres son originalmente de México, pero yo crecí en un pueblo pequeño al norte de California. Soy bailarina, pintora…
More Than Just Moorings
People often wonder if we stand watches on our cruises – work in shifts 24 hours a day. Because our OOI work is primarily deploying…
Under the Weather
Large waves are regularly crashing over the deck. It’s best to stay inside today. The sea state and winds are only going pick up from…
