October 2015 - OSNAP

Go with the flow

October 19, 2015 Sarah

‘Go with the flow’: Research on the currents in the subpolar North Atlantic This past July chief scientist Laura de Steur and the crew of the Pelagia set out to…

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.

Feili and a float called Feili. photo by Penny Holliday

Deploying a RAFOS float. photo by Penny Holliday

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.

The CTD package, Ifremer/Ovide

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

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.

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