We finished mooring deployments from R/V Oceanus when we installed MS100 at first light. After that, we transited to near Avila Beach and Jim Lerczak, Una Savic (OSU graduate student) and Matthew Ball (OSU undergraduate student) boarded the 29-foot OSU research vessel Kalipi. Taylor Eaton (Captain) and Jenny Thomas (OSU graduate student) are the rest of the OSU R/V Kalipi … Read More
Info about live radar feed
Just a little info about the live radar feed, the feed can be found on the ISDRI blog under ObservationalData/Realtime Data or at this link, some instructions are located at the blog RealtimeData as well. This feed can be accessed from your phone, if you download the single image you can even view it in Google Earth on your phone … Read More
Oceanus deploys moorings in the Vandenberg array
Another good day on the water for Oceanus, this time working south of Point Sal in the shadow of the Vandenberg launch towers. The marine layer burned off and we had a bluebird day view of Point Sal. We installed VB25N just offshore of Jim Thomson’s SWIFT buoy and Falk’s nearshore line. The array is really starting to shape up. … Read More
IW observed today (GRP radar)
This afternoon we observed a fairly long (in the alongshore direction) internal wave packet propagating onshore all afternoon. It can be seen just east of the orangish contour (depth not obvious from kml info). It became visible in our field of view around 230pm, the above image is from 6pm. Note the vertical yellow line for scale (10km). For those … Read More
APL-UW moored SWIFTs and sea spider deployments complete
Thursday was day two on the water for APL-UW. The dolphins couldn’t quite keep up with us on our easy early morning transit from Port San Luis to Point Sal. We deployed APL’s last two sea spiders south of Point Sal under somewhat clear skies, with a hefty marine layer visible farther offshore. On the way home we ran into several large foamy streaks near … Read More