After a successful day Friday and recovery of the Surface and Profiler moorings in the balmy 70+ degree North Atlantic, post-tropical storm Nicole\u2019s winds and rain forced the Armstrong<\/em> team to head North to shelter from the worst of the storm expected Saturday morning at the array. Not to trek North to Vineyard Sound empty-handed, the crew and science team braved 15\u2019 seas and 25 knot winds to stop and take CTD casts every 5-10 miles, from the L11 NES-LTER line, south of Pioneer, heading north to L1 just outside Vineyard Sound. Graduate Student Lukas Lobert led the team, which also used Armstrong<\/em>\u2019s Underway Thermosalinograph and ADCP to fill in data between stations. Friday night\u2019s mission checked three boxes \u2014 casts on the full NES-LTER line, working with the ship\u2019s instrumentation, and sheltering ship, crew, and science team from the worst of the night\u2019s weather. On arrival in Vineyard Sound off Tarpaulin Cove and the Tarpaulin Cove Light, the ceiling was low and visibility short, while the science deck team power washed recovered mooring components. Text and photos by Mark Hanson.<\/p>\n

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