September 2018 - OSNAP

Last OSNAP cruise of the season on RV Neil Armstrong is underway – Blog 1

September 13, 2018 Sarah

September 12, 2018 by Isabela Alexander-Astiz Le Bras Two weeks ago we left Reykjavik on the R/V Neil Armstrong for the last OSNAP cruise of the season, a five week…

Robert reels in the rosette.

photo by Penny Holliday

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

The mooring team with R/V Pelagia deck crew, standing by a mooring anchor while towing the mooring to its final deployment spot.

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

Deploying a RAFOS float. photo by Penny Holliday

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

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

Feili and a float called Feili. photo by Penny Holliday