SIO Airborne Flight

Another successful flight for the SIO Melville lab today. We had a mechanical issue that set back our departure time but we were still able to fly from 1430 to 1830 local time. We flew 8000ft alongshore legs from Pismo Pier to Purisima Point, down to 4000ft in a grid pattern within the Oceanus sampling box around Point Sal, then down … Read More

More transects and internal waves

Today, the Kalipi continued sampling with the ADCP and fast profiling CTD during transects, again seeing several internal wave convergence lines along the way.  (post by Jenny)

Photos from around Pt Sal from the air.

I wanted to share a few quick images of things we saw from the air today (it’s pretty amazing!). Times and general locations are indicated below. Looking northwest from Pt. Sal out to the Sally Ride (1324 PDT). Bloom and rips just north of Mussel Pt (1406 PDT). Sally Ride transiting inshore of an internal bore front (1423 PDT)