{"id":536790,"date":"2025-11-07T13:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/?page_id=536790"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:06:15","slug":"pioneer-22","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/pioneer-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer 22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h1>Pioneer 22:<\/h1>\n<h1>Mooring Turnarounds &amp; Data Recovery<\/h1>\n\t<h2>Pioneer 22 Cruise: Fall Fieldwork for Mooring Service and Data Recovery<\/h2>\nThe team is heading to the <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanobservatories.org\/array\/coastal-pioneer-mid-atlantic-bight-array\/\">Pioneer Array in the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB)<\/a>, off the coast of North Carolina, to conduct critical mooring turnarounds and recover valuable data-extending nearly a decade of sustained ocean observations in this dynamic shelf-break region.\nCheck back here for daily updates from this important field expedition.\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oceanobservatories.org\/array\/coastal-pioneer-mid-atlantic-bight-array\/\" 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\/2025\/03\/Pioneer-MAB-Layout.jpg\" alt=\"Pioneer-MAB-Layout\" height=\"1122\" width=\"1430\" title=\"Pioneer-MAB-Layout\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/oceanobservatories.org\/array\/coastal-pioneer-mid-atlantic-bight-array\/\">Location<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The Pioneer Array&#8217;s core is a T-shaped moored array off Nags Head, NC, spanning ~50 km across and along the continental shelf, centered near the shelf-break front ~25 km offshore.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/ships\/#pioneer-21\" 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\/2021\/10\/Armstrong-pre-departure.jpeg\" alt=\"The R\/V Neil Armstrong is loaded with ocean observing equipment that will deployed at the Pioneer Array.  Photo: Rebecca Travis \u00a9WHOI.\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" title=\"Armstrong-pre-departure\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/ships\/#pioneer-22\">Ship<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The R\/V <em>Neil Armstrong<\/em> is a state-of-the-art oceangoing research vessel.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/updates\/#pioneer-21\" 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\/03\/IMG_6146-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG_6146\" height=\"1920\" width=\"2560\" title=\"IMG_6146\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/updates\/#pioneer-22\" rel=\"noopener\">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\/#pioneer-21\" 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\/03\/DSC0486-2.jpg\" alt=\"DSC0486-2\" height=\"617\" width=\"924\" title=\"DSC0486-2\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/gallery\/#pioneer-22\">GALLERY<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Images and video of the expedition.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/people\/#pioneer-21\" 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\/02\/DSC0524-e1743450340499.jpg\" alt=\"DSC0524\" height=\"2000\" width=\"2000\" title=\"DSC0524\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/people\/#pioneer-22\">People<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Meet the Pioneer 22 Team.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneer 22: Mooring Turnarounds &amp; Data Recovery Pioneer 22 Cruise: Fall Fieldwork for Mooring Service and Data Recovery The team is heading to the Pioneer Array in the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB), off the coast of North Carolina, to conduct critical mooring turnarounds and recover valuable data-extending nearly a decade of sustained ocean observations in this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":536036,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[332],"tags":[31,333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/536790"}],"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=536790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/536790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536810,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/536790\/revisions\/536810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}