November 2017 - OSNAP

The 2017 Irminger Sea Regional Science Workshop

November 28, 2017 Sarah

by Penny Holliday In early November scientists from both sides of the Atlantic travelled to the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK to spend two days discussing new findings and…

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.

photo by Penny Holliday

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

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.

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

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.

Deploying a RAFOS float. photo by Penny Holliday

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.

The CTD package, Ifremer/Ovide