Tidal Bore and Soliton tracking on Oceano

Sally Ride is tracking tidal bores and internal solitary waves (ISWs) on the Oceano array today and through the night on a small southern box between the 20 and 50m isobaths. Our box coordinates are SRSW 34 58.241,  120 44.448 SRSE   34 57.912,  120 41.031 SRNE   34 58.795,  120 40.086 SRNW 34 59.211,  120 44.251   After a … Read More

IOP1 Drifter Trajectories

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

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

On board the Kalipi (9/9/17)

Today we deployed OC10N-T and OC10N-A, the last of the moorings deployed by the Oceanus/Kalipi group.  We then rigged the Kalipi for survey mode (side-mounted ADCP and fast profiling CTD).  Will commence surveys tomorrow (9/10) in coordination with the Oceanus. On board the Kalipi:  Una, Matt, Taylor and Jenny. Getting ready to deploy OC10N-T:  Jim and Matt. View of Sally … Read More