April 2022 - OSNAP

OSNAP at the 2022 US AMOC Science Team Meeting

April 22, 2022 Anne-Sophie Fortin

OSNAP-related presentations at the 2022 US AMOC Science Team Meeting can be found on the site linked below. We look forward to ‘seeing’ everyone and learning about the latest findings.…

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

Deploying a RAFOS float. photo by Penny Holliday

The CTD package, Ifremer/Ovide

Robert reels in the rosette.

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

photo by Penny Holliday

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

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