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In September 2023, ten scientists sailed on the R/V Endeavor from WHOI to the Labrador shelf to deploy seven moorings and conduct a shipboard hydrographic survey of the Newfoundland shelf. The cruise was a success despite two hurricanes passing nearby, and a lot of days in transit! Pictured here from L-R are: Andy Davies, Bryn…

  Arthur Coquereau (guest student in the Foukal lab) is currently sailing on the R/V Armstrong to deploy the second batch of surface drifters and profiling floats along the Southeast Greenland Shelf. This is the second year of fieldwork for the NSF-sponsored “Pathways and fate of fresh water near the southern tip of Greenland”. The…

Meltwater.whoi.edu will document the trajectories of our Greenland surface drifters and profiling floats in near real-time, as well as explain the project and its findings. Check out the site to find out more.

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…

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)…

  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…