December 2017 - OSNAP

News on OSNAP results

December 19, 2017 Admin

by Feili Li It seems to be a quiet year for OSNAP – just one OSNAP cruise took place last summer and so most of the moorings have stayed in…

Feili and a float called Feili. 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.

The CTD package, Ifremer/Ovide

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

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

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.

Robert reels in the rosette.

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.

photo by Penny Holliday

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

Deploying a RAFOS float. photo by Penny Holliday