April 2016 - OSNAP

OSNAP at EGU 2016

April 5, 2016 Sarah

Session OS1.4 The North Atlantic: natural variability and global change Tuesday (08:00-19:30) Laura de Steur and Femke de Jong EGU2016-9380 Variability in the Irminger Sea: new results from continuous ocean…

Deploying a RAFOS float. photo by Penny Holliday

The CTD package, Ifremer/Ovide

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.

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

Robert reels in the rosette.

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

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

Feili and a float called Feili. photo by Penny Holliday

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

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.

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