BERING STRAIT MOORINGS 2009 Khromov Cruise RUSALCA 2009 Leg 1 August/September 2009 Expedition Leader: Vladimir Bakhmutov (State Research Navigational Hydrographical Institute, Russian Federation) An NSF and NOAA supported US-Russian Collaboration between University of Washington (UW) (lead PI: Rebecca Woodgate) University of Alaska Fairbanks (lead PI: Tom Weingartner) Arctic & Antarctic Research Institute (lead PIs: Mikhail Kulakov and Valerian Golavski) Faciliated by Group Alliance, Russian Federation   Corresponding author: Rebecca Woodgate (woodgate@apl.washington.edu) Funded by: NSF (National Science Foundation) Polar Programs ARC-0632154 Part of  the International Polar Year (IPY) AON (Arctic Observing Network) NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ) Arctic Program Part of RUSALCA  (Russian-American Long-Term Census of the Arctic)

Research vessel Professor Khromov (also known as Spirit of Enderby, operated by Heritage Expeditions) (Photo by Aleksey Ostrovskiy, 2009) Back to Bering Strait  Home Page Back to High Latitude Dynamics

2009 RUSALCA LEG 1 2009 Khromov Cruise Overview 2009 Khromov Mooring Cruise Map 2009 Khromov Mooring Cruise Report

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RUSALCA 2009 KHROMOV LEG 1 CRUISE OVERVIEW	RUSALCA 2009 KHROMOV LEG 1 CRUISE MAP
As part of the joint US-Russian RUSALCA (Russian US Long-term Census of the Arctic) Program, a team of US and Russian scientists undertook two oceanographic cruises in August/September 2009 on board the Russian vessel ‘Khromov’, operated by Heritage Expeditions (under the name of Spirit of Enderby). This report concerns the first of these cruises, Leg 1, in August 2009. The major objective of the Leg 1 cruise was mooring work in the Bering Strait region, i.e., the recovery and redeployment of 8 moorings, a joint project by the University of Washington (UW), the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF), and the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI).The US portion of the mooring recoveries are supported by an NSF-OPP IPY grant(PIs: Woodgate, Weingartner, Whitledge and Lindsay). The US portion of the mooring deployments are supported by a NOAA-RUSALCA grant (PIs: Woodgate, Weingartner, Whitledge and Lindsay). The moorings measure water velocity,temperature, salinity, ice motion, ice thickness (crudely) and some bio-optics.	Map of the Bering Strait region (left) and detail of the strait (right) showing Khromov RUSALCA 2009 Leg 1 CTD sites (small green dots) and mooring locations for the eight moorings recovered in 2009(A12-08, A11-08, A13-08, A2W-08, A2-08, A4-08, A4R-08, and A3-08) and the eight moorings deployed in 2009 (A12-09, A11-09, A13-09, A3-09, A2W-09, A2-09, A4W-09, A4-09, and A3-09). Blue dots with red center indicate a site of recovery and deployment. Blue dot (A4W) indicates deployment only. Depth contours are every 10m from the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean [Jakobsson et al., 2000]
RUSALCA 2009 LEG 1 Khromov Cruise Report - August/September 2009

For use of any of these figures, please contact Rebecca Woodgate (woodgate@apl.washington.edu)
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We gratefully acknowledge financial support for this work the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
 
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