by Ali Hochberg | Mar 29, 2017 | Anna, Jack, Minnie, Weekly Updates |
Anna and Minnie were deployed from RV Atlantic Explorer on February 20, 2017 – Anna at Hydrostation S and Minnie at BATS. Anna is quipped with a standard set of sensors: CTD, optical fluorescence, backscatter and CDOM, and dissolved oxygen; Minnie is similarly...
by Ali Hochberg | Feb 13, 2017 | Anna, Jack, Minnie, Weekly Updates |
“Jack” has been profiling the water column at Hydrostation S since early January. From February to June 2017, all three gliders will be used to conduct intensive sampling as part of continued efforts to understand plankton production and the “Spring Bloom” in the...
by Audrey Rogerson | Jul 31, 2016 | Anna, Jack, Minnie, Weekly Updates |
All three gliders are presently in the water measuring water column conditions and chronicling inventories of chlorophyll, dissolved oxygen and nitrate. Principal objectives of this summer mission are to gain experience with the SUNA nitrate sensor and acoustic...
by Audrey Rogerson | Jul 12, 2016 | Anna, Jack, Minnie |
Three gliders coordinated with R/V Atlantic Explorer for a 4-day field program at Hydrostation S, which included plankton tows and large volume water sampling for microbial and genomic analyses. One of the scientific goals of the BIOS-SCOPE program is to quantify...