by Ruth Curry | Jul 16, 2020 | Anna, Jack, Minnie |
In March 2019, when MAGIC launched a collaborative 2-year field program combining gliders and ship-based observations to assess the strength of the biological carbon pump, no one anticipated two major problems – a global pandemic and sharks! In response to COVID-19,...
by Ruth Curry | Nov 7, 2017 | Anna, Jack, Minnie |
Jack is soloing in the water at the BATS site this fall after a very full Winter–Summer Field Campaign from Jan through July. The timeline for glider deployments (Fig. 1) depicts the significant ramp up of activities associated with the Spring Bloom and BIOS-SCOPE...
by Ruth Curry | Jul 4, 2017 | Anna, Jack, Minnie |
All 3 gliders are back in the water (Figure 1). Anna has been profiling at Hydrostation S (HS) since Feb 20. Minnie (carrying a SUNA sensor) was redeployed at BATS on June 16 following a very successful 3-month Spring Bloom mission, and is again keeping station to...
by Ruth Curry | Jun 14, 2017 | Anna, Jack, Minnie |
This week Minnie and Jack are being rotated in and out of the water while Anna continues to hold station at Hydrostation S (HS) (Figure 1). Sea surface temperatures are 24.7ºC at HS and 23.2ºC, about a degree and one half cooler, at BATS. Pronounced deep chlorophyll...
by Ali Hochberg | Apr 25, 2017 | Anna, Jack, Minnie, Weekly Updates |
The strong anticyclone gyre has tracked mostly west and slightly south and appears to be headed for an intersection with BATS with the eddy’s center about 20 km south of BATS. Jack’s track for the past week or so has allowed it to circle the eddy and the glider is now...
by Ali Hochberg | Apr 11, 2017 | Anna, Jack, Minnie, Weekly Updates |
An anticyclonic eddy is approaching BATS from the east that contains water properties characteristic of the Gulf of Cadiz. Jack has explored the eddy properties in the last week and discovered unusually high temperatures, salinities and dissolved oxygen concentrations...
