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Safety Drills

IRMINGER: Chief Mate Chris Manka showed Boston College student, Ayden Schirmacher, how to don an immersion suit (commonly called a “Gumby” suit) designed to keep…

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And We’re Off!

IRMINGER: The Irminger 11 team aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong left the WHOI Dock at noon on Sunday, June 2, a beautiful summer day.  The…

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BC Biogeochemical Researchers

IRMINGER: A team from Boston College was aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong on Thursday May 30 to get a first-hand look at where they will…

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Securing Back Deck

IRMINGER: The Coastal and Global Scale Nodes team has been busy loading the deck of the R/V Neil Armstrong to head off to the Global…

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POGO Fellow Aboard

STATION PAPA: Aditi Sharma, a PhD candidate at the National Institute of Oceanography India, made her way from Mumbai to Boston last week in preparation…

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Sunrise in the MAB

Sunrise over the NOSM surface buoy on 17 April.

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Scoreboard!

A large-format display of wire tension, amount of wire payed out, and payout speed from the ship’s trawl winch is posted on the superstructure of…

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New Shallow Water Moorings

Two shallow water moorings were deployed today at the Pioneer MAB site. These specially designed moorings allow a wave-powered profiler to span the upper 80%…

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Sunset Departure

  The R/V Neil Armstrong departs Woods Hole, MA headed to Pioneer MAB on Leg#2.

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Ready for Leg 2

  Remaining Coastal Profiler Moorings and the brand new Shallow Water Moorings loaded on the R/V Neil Armstrong for deployment during leg 2. Staged and…

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Dissuading Pesky Sea Lions

California sea-lions haul out on Endurance Array shelf buoys during the day. These buoys ride higher at night, which corresponds to when the sea-lions leave…

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Coastal Piercing Profiler Deployment

A Coastal Surface Piercing Profiler is headed overboard. In the background is the Oregon Inshore Surface Mooring 150 meters away. They are deployed near each…

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UNOLS Volunteers Leg 2

On this cruise leg, the two UNOLS Cruise Volunteers who joined the Endurance 20 team are graduate students Malik Jordan and Ellery Ohlwiler. Here they…

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Thanks to @RV_Neil Crew

We are almost home. We are aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, waiting for the tide to change so we…

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And It’s a Wrap

Hear what the best parts of leg 1 were from some of its participants. The Coastal Pioneer Array MAB team completed all the objectives of…

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Sediment Traps Day

The Endurance 20 team’s main effort today was to turn a sediment trap mooring. The project is led by professors Jennifer Fehrenbacher (Oregon State University)…

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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…

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Profiler Moorings Today

High seas are forecast at the end of the week when leg 2 was set to be on site at the new Pioneer location in…

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New Instrument Testing

In addition to the baseline instruments the Endurance Team deploys on each cruise, this Near Surface Instrument Frame has two test instruments. They deploy them…

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It Takes a Village

It takes a team onboard the R/V Neil Armstrong.  The crew and science party work side-by-side to conduct all the deployments and recoveries for the…

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