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The OSNAP field season is underway!

July 8, 2014 Sarah

By Susan Lozier Though thousands of miles from the Labrador, Irminger and Iceland seas, where all the OSNAP action is taking place this summer, I can almost feel seasick at…

NSF awards grants for deployment of new observing system in the North Atlantic Ocean

December 17, 2013 Sarah

October 18, 2013 In an effort to study the circulation of ocean waters, a key component of the global climate system, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $16 million…

The CTD package, Ifremer/Ovide

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

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.

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.

Robert reels in the rosette.

photo by Penny Holliday

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

Deploying a RAFOS float. photo by Penny Holliday

Feili and a float called Feili. 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)