{"id":536198,"date":"2025-05-22T11:49:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/?page_id=536198"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:28:31","slug":"station-papa-12","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/station-papa-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Station Papa 12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h1>12th Refresh of Global Station Papa Array<\/h1>\n\t<h2><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Recovery and Deployment of Station Papa Array Mooring<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A team of 10 scientists and engineers will be aboard the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uaf.edu\/cfos\/sikuliaq\/about-rv-sikuliaq.php\">R\/V\u00a0<em>Sikuliaq<\/em><\/a><\/strong> for a 17-day expedition (May 19 -June 4, 2025).<\/p>\n\u2022 3 subsurface moorings<br \/>\n\u2022 2 gliders<br \/>\n\u2022 1 NOAA-PMEL surface mooring<br \/>\n\u2022 1 UW-APL Waverider mooring\n<p>Over the coming weeks, the team will be busy at the Papa array deploying new instruments, recovering gear that&#8217;s been collecting data for the past year, and conducting vital water sampling.<\/p>\n<p><em>Check back here for regular updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/location\/#stationpapa10\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/04\/CEV-OOI-GlobalStationPAPA-scaled-2.jpeg\" alt=\"CEV-OOI-GlobalStationPAPA-scaled-2\" height=\"1440\" width=\"2560\" title=\"CEV-OOI-GlobalStationPAPA-scaled-2\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/oceanobservatories.org\/array\/global-station-papa-array\/\">Location<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The Global Station Papa Array is located in the Gulf of Alaska. Station Papa Array consists of a triangular set of moorings (white circles), with the sides of the triangle having a length roughly 10 times the water depth to capture mesoscale variability in each region.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/ships\/#stationpapa10\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2022\/01\/PF7091_ship_h-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"PF7091_ship_h-scaled\" height=\"1707\" width=\"2560\" title=\"PF7091_ship_h-scaled\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/ships\/#station-papa-12\">Ship<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The 261-foot R\/V <em>Sikuliaq<\/em> is one of the most advanced university research vessels in the world, capable of breaking ice up to 2.5 feet thick.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/updates\/#stationpapa10\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/05\/FLMA-9_GLASSBALLS_RELEASEScomp-1-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"FLMA-9_GLASSBALLS_RELEASEScomp-1-1024x683-1.jpg\" title=\"FLMA-9_GLASSBALLS_RELEASEScomp-1-1024x683-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/updates\/#station-papa-12\">Updates<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Regular posts about life aboard the ship, work accomplished, and encounters with marine life.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/gallery\/#stationpapa10\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/05\/NOAA-PMEL_DEPLOY-copy-1024x682-1.jpg\" alt=\"NOAA-PMEL_DEPLOY-copy-1024x682\" height=\"682\" width=\"1024\" title=\"NOAA-PMEL_DEPLOY-copy-1024x682\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/gallery\/#station-papa-12\">Gallery<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Images and videos of the expedition.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/people\/#stationpapa10\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2023\/05\/People-Station-Papa-10.jpeg\" alt=\"Credit: Rebecca Travis \u00a9 WHOI.\" height=\"733\" width=\"1024\" title=\"People Station Papa 10\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/people\/#station-papa-12\">People<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Meet the Station Papa 12 Team.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12th Refresh of Global Station Papa Array \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Recovery and Deployment of Station Papa Array Mooring &nbsp; A team of 10 scientists and engineers will be aboard the R\/V\u00a0Sikuliaq for a 17-day expedition (May 19 -June 4, 2025). \u2022 3 subsurface moorings&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":532287,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[317],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/536198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/536198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536430,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/536198\/revisions\/536430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}