On Sunday, we had the first day of IOP1 operations near Pt Sal. The Sally Ann and RV Sounder joined forces around the headland. It was a beautiful day at the point as it almost always is. The Pt itself was intermittently shrouded by marine fog, below is a view from the bay south of the point. The drifters were … Read More
The BAT flies!
Today on R/V Oceanus we got the Acrobat flying with its two GusT probes sticking out front. We’re using it to survey a flux box around the Oceano array. It takes us about 3 hours to go around it at 5 knots. Before we started BATing — oh, by the way, there’s a real bat with us on Oceanus, likely … Read More
Life, the universe, and mooring arrays
42 moorings, 26 hours, 18 happy scientists.
Alongshore transects
Today the Kalipi raced the Oceanus in an all out battle for data. We ran transects parallel to the Oceanus, surveying with a side-mounted ADCP and fast profiling CTD. During our transect along the 10 m isobath, we encountered some surprising suddenly shallow regions, so our second transect was moved to the 15 m isobath, where we managed to finally … Read More
Mooring madness on the Sally Ride
The R/V Sally Ride arrived on site Friday morning local time and got right to work. We had initially laid out what we thought was a slightly conservative but reasonable schedule of mooring deployments that would last for the first 4.5 days of our expedition. We had not counted on the incredible energy, talent, precision and hard work of all … Read More