{"id":531098,"date":"2021-11-14T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/pioneer17\/?p=531098"},"modified":"2022-03-09T16:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:44:52","slug":"more-than-just-moorings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/more-than-just-moorings\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Just Moorings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People often wonder if we stand watches on our cruises \u2013 work in shifts 24 hours a day.\u00a0 Because our OOI work is primarily deploying and recovering moorings, the majority of our work happens during daytime when we have sufficient light. Overnight activities include surveys of the Pioneer Array region using ship\u2019s sensors and holding station at mooring sites to provide comparisons of ship and buoy sensors. However, not every night is booked with OOI activities, so we will often allow other researchers to join us who can do operations at night, and make good use of the R\/V <em>Neil Armstrong&#8217;s<\/em> capabilities.\u00a0 One group that often joins us on Pioneer cruises is the NES-LTER group at WHOI.\u00a0 The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lternet.edu\/\">LTER<\/a><\/strong> (Long Term Ecological Research) Network consists of 28 research programs.\u00a0 The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lternet.edu\/site\/northeast-u-s-shelf\/\">Northeast U.S. Shelf (NES) site<\/a><\/strong> stretches from WHOI&#8217;s Martha&#8217;s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) to the OOI Pioneer Array, and is one of the few marine LTER sites.\u00a0 Led by Dr. Heidi Sosik, the NES-LTER group is interested in understanding how planktonic food webs are changing on the Northeast U.S. Shelf.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_531099\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-531099\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-531099\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2021\/11\/Taylor-Crockford-300x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2021\/11\/Taylor-Crockford-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2021\/11\/Taylor-Crockford.png 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-531099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brett Longworth pumps distilled water through the CTD rosette before doing a CTD cast. Photo: Taylor Crockford\u00a9WHOI.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_531100\" style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-531100\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-531100 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2021\/11\/Diana-Fontaine.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2021\/11\/Diana-Fontaine.png 316w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2021\/11\/Diana-Fontaine-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-531100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Fontaine, URI PhD candidate, gets ready to bring bottles to the bow for net primary production incubation experiments. Photo: Taylor Crockford \u00a9WHOI.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Joining us on the Pioneer 17 Leg 2 cruise are Taylor Crockford (WHOI), Diana Fontaine (URI) and Brett Longworth (WHOI).\u00a0 They have instruments connected to the ship&#8217;s underway seawater system, so they are constantly making measurements of the surface water.\u00a0 They also conduct CTD casts and take water samples from our CTD casts.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Dr. Sheri N. White<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often wonder if we stand watches on our cruises \u2013 work in shifts 24 hours a day.\u00a0 Because our OOI work is primarily deploying and recovering moorings, the majority of our work happens during daytime when we have sufficient light. Overnight activities include surveys of the Pioneer Array region using ship\u2019s sensors and holding&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":531099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,19],"tags":[28,46,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531102,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531098\/revisions\/531102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}