July 2014 - Page 2 of 2 - OSNAP

Outward Bound!

July 10, 2014 Sarah

by Bill Johns After much anticipation and seemingly endless planning, we finally set off from Reykjavik, Iceland at 0900 last Sunday morning (July 6th) on Leg 2 of the R/V…

The OSNAP field season is underway!

July 8, 2014 Sarah

By Susan Lozier Though thousands of miles from the Labrador, Irminger and Iceland seas, where all the OSNAP action is taking place this summer, I can almost feel seasick at…

Graduate students Roos Bol from NIOZ (left) and James Coogan from SAMS (right), at the CTD computer console.

Deploying a RAFOS float. photo by Penny Holliday

Penny working on the mooring spool together with GEOMAR student Ilmar Leinmann (Photo credit: Penny Holliday)

The RV Pelagia, our home for the duration of this cruise.

Robert reels in the rosette.

The mooring team with R/V Pelagia deck crew, standing by a mooring anchor while towing the mooring to its final deployment spot.

The CTD package, Ifremer/Ovide

Feili and a float called Feili. photo by Penny Holliday

Attaching a current meter to a mooring. photo by Penny Holliday

ea time for the Principal Scientific Officer of the cruise (Stuart, on the left) during the recovery of the first US mooring, lead by Bill (in the middle). Dom (on the right side) observed with attention the work on the back deck.

Heather Furey (WHOI) and Mark Graham (UMiami) get the rosette ready for the first calibration cast of microcats and test of releases before Leg 2 moorings are deployed. Also on the package are the CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) sensors which relay water property values up a conducting cable as the package is lowered to near the sea floor.

photo by Penny Holliday