BERING STRAIT MOORINGS 2012 RUSALCA Cruise R/V Professor Khromov July 2012 Expedition Leader: Vladimir Bakhmutov (State Research Navigational Hydrographical Institute, Russian Federation) Chief Scientist: Rebecca Woodgate (University of Washington, USA) 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-0855748 Part of  the 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 Rebecca Woodgate 2009) Back to Bering Strait  Home Page Back to High Latitude Dynamics

2012 RUSALCA 2012 Khromov Cruise Overview 2012 Khromov Mooring Cruise Map 2012 Khromov Mooring Cruise Report

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RUSALCA 2012 CRUISE OVERVIEW	RUSALCA 2012 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 2012 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 11 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, blue.  Mooring sites, black. 2011 deployments, black. CTD stations, red.  Zooplankton nets, green.  Productivity casts, magenta.  Depth contours every 10m from the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean [Jakobsson et al., 2000].  Lower panel mooring detail: - black solid=recovered and redeployed; black with blue center =recovered, not redeployed; black ring=not yet recovered.
RUSALCA 2012 Khromov Cruise Report - July 2012

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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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