by Lisa Emanuelson | Dec 15, 2022 | cruise-information
November 2022 Twenty GO-BGC and SOCCOM floats were deployed between San Diego, California and Punta Arenas, Chile as the R/V Revelle headed towards Antarctica on the GEOTRACES (GP-17) expedition. GEOTRACES expeditions map the distribution of trace elements and their...
by Lisa Emanuelson | Dec 15, 2022 | cruise-information
November 2022 Thirteen float deployments across the South Pacific were completed by the R/V Kaharoa operated by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). The goal of the GO-BGC program is to have 500 biogeochemical (BGC) floats deployed across...
by Lisa Emanuelson | Dec 9, 2022 | cruise-information
October 2022 In the first GO-BGC expedition to the Indian Ocean, five GO-BGC floats were deployed north and east of Madagascar from the R/V Agulhas. This marks the first of three expeditions that will deploy GO-BGC floats in the Indian Ocean scheduled for 2022-2023....
by Lisa Emanuelson | Dec 9, 2022 | cruise-information
The Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station (NTAS) expedition is shown in dark blue, and the PIRATA Northeast Extension (PNE) expedition is shown in medium blue. October 2022 Five floats were deployed from the R/V Ron Brown as part of the Northwest Tropical Atlantic...
by Lisa Emanuelson | Dec 9, 2022 | cruise-information
September 2022 Two floats were deployed from the R/V Atlantic Explorer as part of the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) expedition from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). BATS monitoring started in 1988 and continues today, providing researchers with...
by Lisa Emanuelson | Jun 16, 2022 | cruise-information
June 2022 Four GO-BGC floats were deployed in the North Pacific from the R/V Sikuliaq during research expeditions led by Chief Scientists Russell Hopcroft, Mark Wells, and Spahr Webb. Float status including number of completed profiles to date is available in...
