UW Waverider Deployed

Credit: Dee Emrich © WHOI.

STATION PAPA: Onboard the Sikuliaq is the OOI-CGSN team to perform the yearly Station Papa Array maintenance, but there is also a team from the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (J. Talbert, A. Larson).  UW/APL joins the OOI cruise to maintain a Waverider buoy also at Station Papa.  The two teams support each other operationally to optimize the science data generated at the Papa location.  The Waverider will collect wave data such as height, period, and direction.