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) |
 Research vessel
Professor Khromov (also known as Spirit of Enderby, operated by
Heritage Expeditions) (Photo by Aleksey Ostrovskiy, 2009)
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| RUSALCA 2010 CRUISE OVERVIEW |
RUSALCA
2010 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 an oceanographic cruise in July/August 2010 on board the Russian vessel ‘Khromov’, operated by Heritage Expeditions (under the name of Spirit of Enderby). The major objective of the 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 deployments are supported by an NSF-OPP AON grant(PIs: Woodgate, Weingartner, Whitledge and Lindsay). The US portion of the mooring recoveries 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 and whale acoustics. Figure: Ship-track in blue, Mooring sites in black, CTD stations in red, Zooplankton nets in freen. Mauve dashed lines indicate region of working permission. Depth contours are every 10m from the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean [Jakobsson et al., 2000]. |
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| RUSALCA 2010 Khromov
Cruise Report - July/August 2010 |
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