University of Washington (UW) (lead PI: Rebecca Woodgate) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Co PIs: Patrick Heimbach, An Nguyen) Corresponding author: Rebecca Woodgate (woodgate@apl.washington.edu)
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BERING
STRAIT 2014 MOORING CRUISE OVERVIEW |
BERING
STRAIT 2014 CRUISE MAP |
As
part of Bering Strait projects funded by
NSF-AON (Arctic Observing Network) and ONR, in
June/July 2014 a team of US scientists
undertook a ~ 7 day cruise in the Bering
Strait and southern Chukchi Sea region on the
US vessel Norseman II, operated by Norseman
Maritime Charters.
The primary goals of the expedition were: 1) recovery of 3 moorings carrying physical oceanographic (Woodgate-ONR), bio-optical (Whitledge) and marine mammal acoustic (Stafford) instrumentation. These moorings were deployed in the Bering Strait region in 2013 from the Norseman II. The funding for the physical oceanographic components of these moorings comes from ONR. 2) deployment of 3 moorings in the Bering Strait region, carrying physical oceanographic (Woodgate), bio-optical (Whitledge) and marine mammal acoustic (Stafford) instrumentation. The funding for the physical oceanographic components of these moorings comes from NSF-AON. 3) accompanying CTD sections (without water sampling). 4) collection of accompanying ship’s underway data (surface water properties, ADCP, meteorological data). Figure:
Ship-track, blue. Mooring sites, black. CTD
stations, red. Grey and green arrows indicate
direction of travel (grey during mooring
operations, green during CTD operations). Depth
contours every 10m from the International
Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO)
[Jakobsson et al., 2000]. Lower panels give detail
of strait region at the start (left) and end
(right) of the cruise. |
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Bering
Strait 2014 Norseman II Cruise Report - June/July 2014
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For
use
of
any of these figures, please contact Rebecca
Woodgate
(woodgate@apl.washington.edu)
©
Polar Science Center, University of Washington, 2014
We gratefully
acknowledge financial support for this work the National
Science Foundation (NSF),
and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
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