With it’s light and long design using a combination of tilt current meters and temperature sensors, the UDelaware NGIW long line mooring is readied on the back deck of the R/V Atlantis (photo by Magdalena Andres)

The long line moored array has been deployed off the Aleutian slope! It went really well this morning and here are a few shots of the UDel / WHOI team prepping to deploy their long line on the Atlantis.

Vitalli Sheremet from WHOI prepping the floats on the long line array aboard the R/V Atlantis. (photo by Magdalena Andres)

Joe Khuel from UDelaware on the R/V Atlantis prepping the long white line needed for the Aleutians slope mooring. (photo by Magdalena Andres)

With all the moored assets deployed, and the SQUID floats deployed, we’re doing CTD, ADCP and AUV surveys of the slope region before we head to the 3600 m isobath and the red bullseye in the modelled energy flux plot to deploy the CPIES and do the 25 hour CTD yo-yo.

SIO grad students Caeli Griffin and Grant Meiners have been leading the shipboard sampling on the NGIW Aleutians cruise. Here is a movie made by Griffin showing the ship track on the right with the moored asset locations & bathymetry and the shipboard ADCP data (east-west on top, north-south on the bottom) on the left.