Posts by Nicholas Foukal

A three-year project to track the “Transport and fate of the Labrador Coastal Current” has been funded by the Ocean Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation. We will deploy four current meters on the Labrador Shelf to measure the integrated transport of the the current, as well as three Submerged Autonomous Launch Platforms (SALPs)…

A joint observation and modeling study of the “Pathways and fate of fresh water around the southern tip of Greenland” has been funded by the Ocean Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation. The three-year project will involve two summers (2021 and 2022) of fieldwork, deploying surface drifters and profiling floats along the southeast Greenland…

  We have been refurbishing three Submerged Autonomous Launch Platforms (SALPs) in order to autonomously deploy surface drifters and profiling floats over the course of months. The SALPs consist of a steel-frame cylinder about ~1 m in diameter and ~2 m high that store drifters and/or floats at a fixed mooring site and release the…