BERING STRAIT MOORINGS 2014 Cruise
Norseman II

30th June - 7th July 2014, Nome to Nome,
Chief Scientist: Rebecca Woodgate (University of Washington, USA)

An NSF and ONR supported collaboration between
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)

Funded by:

NSF (National Science Foundation)
Polar Programs  PLR-1416920,
Part of  the AON (Arctic Observing Network)

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ONR (Office of Naval Research)
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NorsemanII,
                image from Norseman Maritime Charters

2014 Bering Strait Mooring Cruise
2014 Norseman II Cruise Overview
2014 Norseman II Mooring Cruise Map
2014 Norseman II Mooring Cruise Report
Preliminary 2014 ADCP sections
BERING STRAIT PLANS AND EXPEDITIONS
  2007 Sever Mooring Cruise Report - August/September 
  2008 Lavrentiev Mooring Cruise Report - October
  2009 Khromov Mooring Cruise Report - August/September
  2010 Khromov Mooring Cruise Report - July/August
  2011 Khromov Mooring Cruise Report - July
  2012 Khromov Mooring Cruise Report - July
  2013 Norseman II Mooring Cruise Report - July
  2014 Norseman II Mooring Cruise Report - June/July
BERING STRAIT LINKS
   Bering Strait Basics - why is it important
   Bering Strait Oceanography (Data, cruises & more)
  

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. 




Map of Bering Strait 2014 Mooring Cruise
  Bering Strait 2014 Norseman II Cruise Report - June/July 2014

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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