August 2020 - OSNAP

Transiting to the Irminger Sea

August 14, 2020 Sarah

by Sarah Nickford, URI Greetings from the R/V Neil Armstrong! I am a graduate student studying physical oceanography at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography. Originally, I…

MSM94 expedition on the RV Maria S. Merian

August 5, 2020 Sarah

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

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

Feili and a float called Feili. photo by Penny Holliday

photo by Penny Holliday

Deploying a RAFOS float. 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.

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

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

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.

Robert reels in the rosette.