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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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Regular CTD Casts

CTD casts that measure conductivity, temperature, and depth are a standard oceanographic measurement tool.  The Pioneer Array MAB team are making CTD casts with water…

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Back in Port

The R/V Sikuliaq’s starboard crane is lifting the bases of the Endurance 20 moorings onto the ship. The bases of the moorings, Multi-Function Nodes, house…

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Friendship Bracelets

Athena, one of the undergraduate students who refurbishes and assembles the Endurance 20 moorings in Corvallis, made “EA TWENTY” bracelets to commemorate the 20th Endurance…

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AUV Captured

  Once the first AUV had finished its 20-hour transect, it was time to get her back onboard. The Glider Team directed the AUV to…

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Hoses Galore Hold Moorings Together

A flexible connection between the buoy and the anchor of the Coastal Surface Moorings of the Pioneer MAB Array is created by multiple hoses with…

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Weather Not Cooperating

The Endurance 20 team was not able to accomplish what they had planned for today (April 5, 2024) because seas were too rough. They pegged…

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AUVs Launched

The first of two Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) were launched from the R/V Neil Armstrong this morning for a 20-hour transect. The second will be…

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Two More Gliders Deployed

Two versions of the Teledyne Gliders were deployed on April 5, 2024 at the Pioneer Array Mid-Atlantic Bight site.  While testing of both models has…

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Third Surface Mooring Deployed

The rear deck of the R/V Neil Armstrong is feeling a little empty with the successful deployment of the third and final surface mooring.  This…

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Glider On Its Way

  Glider Lead Diana Wickman and Glider Tech Andy Robison gently lift Glider 379 into the water for its six month deployment within the Pioneer…

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More Prep for Leg 2

Getting ready for the second leg.  Kris Newhall and Mike Robinson integrate the tower and hull of the new Shallow Water Mooring (SWM).  Two new…

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