{"id":536471,"date":"2025-07-27T15:26:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/?p=536471"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:56:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:56:44","slug":"gliders-deployed-and-ready-for-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/gliders-deployed-and-ready-for-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Gliders Deployed and Ready for Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"190\" data-end=\"383\">The Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) team has officially arrived at the Irminger Array, marking a major milestone in this year&#8217;s field season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"385\" data-end=\"446\">First up on the operational checklist? Glider deployment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"448\" data-end=\"767\">Two autonomous underwater gliders were successfully launched and are now running in a holding pattern near the array. These sleek, torpedo-shaped robots are already being closely monitored by our expert glider pilots, who are checking in on vehicle health and making sure all onboard systems are functioning properly.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"802\" data-end=\"1160\">The gliders will remain on standby until mooring operations are complete, a critical step in securing the array\u2019s infrastructure on the seafloor. Once those operations are wrapped up, the gliders will be cleared to begin their science mission: patrolling the waters of the Irminger Sea, circling the array, and collecting data for up to one full year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1405\">This long-duration mission will deliver high-resolution insights into one of the North Atlantic\u2019s most dynamic and challenging environments, contributing to our understanding of climate variability, deep-water formation, and ocean circulation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1405\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-536473\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9965-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9965-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9965-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9965-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9965-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9965-1-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-536474\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9968-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9968-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9968-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9968-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9968-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9968-1-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1405\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-536472\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9960-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9960-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9960-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9960-1-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9960-1-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9960-1-1367x2048.jpg 1367w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9960-1-scaled.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-536475\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9975-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9975-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9975-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9975-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9975-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/07\/MED_9975-1-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) team has officially arrived at the Irminger Array, marking a major milestone in this year&#8217;s field season. First up on the operational checklist? Glider deployment. Two autonomous underwater gliders were successfully launched and are now running in a holding pattern near the array. These sleek, torpedo-shaped robots are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":536472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[323],"tags":[142,325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536471"}],"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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536477,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536471\/revisions\/536477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}