Bering Strait 2016 Mooring Cruise

As part of the Bering Strait project funded by NSF-AON (Arctic Observing Network), in July 2016 a team of US scientists undertook a ~ 8 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-NSF), whale acoustic (Stafford), and ocean acidification (Juranek and Hales) instrumentation. These moorings were deployed in the Bering Strait region in 2015 from the Norseman II. The funding for the physical oceanographic components of these moorings comes from NSF-AON.
2) deployment of 3 moorings in the Bering Strait region, carrying physical oceanographic (Woodgate) and whale 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).
5) deployment of an autonomous glider in the southern Chukchi Sea (Statscewich).

Despite windy and rough conditions, and often fog, all moorings were safely recovered and redeployed, and a total of 277 CTD casts (on 19 lines) were taken. For full details, and preliminary results, see:

2016 Bering Strait Mooring Cruise Report.

Figure: Ship-track, blue. Mooring sites, black. CTD stations, red. Glider deployment site, yellow. Arrows indicate direction of travel (on inset below, blue during mooring operations before CTD survey, green during CTD survey). 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. See cruise report for daily detail.