February 2015 - OSNAP

First Float Results from OSNAP

February 18, 2015 Sarah

By Amy Bower and Heather Furey During the summer of 2014, the first setting of 40 deep acoustically-tracked RAFOS floats was made along the OSNAP line (see Mysteries of the…

The CTD package, Ifremer/Ovide

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

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.

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

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

photo by Penny Holliday

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

Deploying a RAFOS float. photo by Penny Holliday

Robert reels in the rosette.

Feili and a float called Feili. photo by Penny Holliday

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.

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