Updates - OOI Expedition

And It’s Done

IRMINGER: Mooring operations have been completed at the OOI Irminger Sea Array with the recovery of Flanking Mooring A. The top sphere was in good…

Recovery Video

IRMINGER: See live action of a hybrid profiler mooring recovery. Video by Rebecca Travis © WHOI.

Flanking Mooring B Recovery

IRMINGER: After deploying all of the “new” moorings, the CGSN team is now recovering the “old” ones. Dan Bogorff hooks into the mid-water sphere from…

Pride Month!

IRMINGER: It’s Pride Month and rainbows colors are everywhere out aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong!!

Surface Mooring Recovery

IRMINGER: The weather toyed with the CGSN team the day of the Surface Mooring recovery – varying between sun and fog. Surface Mooring recovery is…

OSNAP Moorings In

IRMINGER: The Overturning the in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP) has a line of moorings on either side of the OOI array. Those moorings…

Blue Whale Sighting

IRMINGER: While the OOI and OSNAP teams are busy with mooring operations, Pete Duley from NOAA is busy looking for marine mammals. Big eye binoculars…

Onto OSNAP

IRMINGER: All four of the new OOI Irminger Sea moorings have been deployed and the deck is looking a lot emptier than when we departed…

Anchor Away!

IRMINGER: The moorings at the OOI Irminger Sea Array vary from 1.5 to 2 miles in length. To deploy them, the ship starts miles away…

Flanking Mooring B Next

IRMINGER: The second Flanking Mooring was deployed at the OOI Irminger Sea Array; the last of the 4 new OOI moorings to be deployed. Flanking…

Flanking Mooring A In

IRMINGER: The OOI-CGSN team deployed Flanking Mooring A in the OOI Irminger Sea Array off the tip of Greenland. The Flanking Moorings consist of a…

Hands-On Experience for POGO Fellow

STATION PAPA: POGO Fellow Aditi Sharma is on the return leg to Seward, Alaska, having spent the last 15 days aboard the R/V Sikuliaq learning…

Glider Ops

IRMINGER: In addition to fixed moorings, the OOI Irminger Sea Array consists of autonomous gliders. Two gliders were deployed to the array for a one…

Profiler Mooring in the Water

IRMINGER: Another gray day in the Irminger Sea and another OOI mooring in the water. The Profiler Mooring consists of a top sphere at 150…

Hybrid Profiler Mooring Recovered

STATION PAPA: The Station Papa moorings are replaced on a yearly schedule. Here the OOI-CGSN team recovers the Hybrid Profiler Mooring. The yellow vehicle seen…

Work Completed Despite Weather

STATION PAPA: The RV Sikuliaq and the science party have been experiencing some rough weather, but they still need to get the work done! This…

Giant Hairy Bearded Man

STATION PAPA, June 11, 2024: Recovery operations were set to begin once the deployment operations were successfully completed and the decks cleared. A little time…