February 2017 - OSNAP

Los mares de mi vida (The seas of my life)

February 22, 2017 Sarah

By Yarisbel Garcia Quintana I have been close to the ocean since I can remember. I grew up surrounded by it, in an island rooted in between the Caribbean Sea,…

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

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

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.

Deploying a RAFOS float. photo by Penny Holliday

Attaching a current meter to a mooring. 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.

Feili and a float called Feili. photo by Penny Holliday

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

The CTD package, Ifremer/Ovide

Robert reels in the rosette.