Updates - OOI Expedition

Prep Back Home

Don Peters and Kris Newhall measure the dry weight and verify the stability of the Shallow Water Mooring (SWM) buoy. The SWM design developed…

Second Mooring Deployed

The second mooring of the Coastal Pioneer Array MAB, the North Central Surface Mooring, was successfully deployed today from the R/V Neil Armstrong. The team…

Frolicking Sea State

The sea was rocking and rolling a little bit yesterday causing the “wet lab” where we work aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong to live up to its…

Winches and Cranes Galore

Working smarter, not harder. A picture of many heavy objects being moved without anyone carrying anything by hand aboard the R/V Sikuliaq during the Endurance…

Remarkable Underwater Robot

Two REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are components of the Coastal Pioneer Array at its new location in the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB). Their mission…

Historic, Continuing Collaboration

The U.S. National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative (NSF-OOI) and the Northeast U.S. Shelf (NES) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project have been collaborating since 2017,…

UNOLS Volunteers Pitch In

The Endurance 20 team includes two UNOLS Cruise Volunteers on each leg. These volunteers are graduate students looking for opportunities to go to sea. On…

First of First

This morning, April 3, 2024, marked the beginning of the Coastal Pioneer Array in its new location in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. The team began prepping…

CTD Casts While Underway

During transit to the Mid-Atlantic Bight from Woods Hole, the team conducted CTD sampling to continue the work of The Northeast U.S. Shelf (NES)…

Crabs Galore

Image of crab pots surrounding the ship as the R/V Sikuliaq and the Endurance 20 team were adjacent to the Washington Inshore Surface Mooring. The…

Secure Back Deck

The R/V Neil Armstrong is fully loaded with ocean observing equipment for the first deployment of the Coastal Pioneer Array at the Mid-Atlantic Bight. …

Survival Suit Training

Safety training happens as soon as the ship is underway. Here Andy Robinson dons a survival suit and demonstrates how to get air out of…

And We’re Off!

IMG_9893 And we are off! The Coastal and Global Scale Nodes team is aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong headed to the Mid-Atlantic Bight for the…

Loading Complete

Pioneer MAB surface moorings and vehicles were loaded on the RV Neil Armstrong. The team setup the moorings for deployment, verified instrument operation, and prepared…

Prawler Testing Completed

The CGSN team monitors the testing and burn-in of the Pioneer MAB Prawler profiling vehicle, the Shallow Water Mooring controller and towers. The testing will…

Team Effort

It is definitely a team effort! Chris Basque, Eric Hutt, John Jordan, John Kemp, Matt Latvis, Nico Llanos, Kris Newhall, Jim Ryder all on deck…

Assembling Anchor Recovery Module

Meghan Donohue assembles an Anchor Recovery Module (ARM). The ARM includes the anchor for the Multi-Function Node (MFN) as well as a flotation module and…

Tower Assembly

John Lund and Mike McCarthy assemble the tower for the new Pioneer MAB Shallow Water Mooring. The tower will hold data telemetry modules and aids…

Expanded and Upgraded NSIF

Expanded and Upgraded! WHOI mechanical engineer Dan Duffany, with input from the OOI-CGSN team, designed the new Near-Surface Instrument Frame – Large (NSIF-L, right). The…

On Way to Ship

On their way. Here Kris Newhall, Jim Ryder, and Chris Basque, with support from WHOI Facilities, remove the Pioneer MAB Coastal Surface Moorings from their…