CMOers, We had a very successful mooring deployment cruise and all the moored instrumentation is in place except Sandy Williams bottom tripod which will be deployed next week off the Seward Johnson. A list of the mooring locations and descriptions of the buoys at each site is given below.

Thanks to calm weather we had time to do a CTD survey and took over 150 CTD profiles, which included an extensive along-isobath survey and three cross-shelf transects. A special thanks to Scott Pegau and Clayton Paulson at OSU for lending us a CTD.

Anyone wanting a detailed schematic of the mooring sites please let us know and we will fax you pictures.
 
 

Mooring locations for Coastal Mixing and Optics:

Central Site depth ~ 70 m

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mooring        latitude  longitude  description
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surface discus 40 29.53' 70 30.17'  3-m discus label "Z"
                                    yellow buoy, white tower 
subsurface     40 29.45' 70 30.42'  no surface expression
northern guard 40 29.65' 70 30.46'  yellow buoy label "U" or "V"
auxillary      40 29.38' 70 30.46'  yellow buoy label "U" or "V"
waverider      40 29.60' 70 30.28'  orange Wavescan-SeaTex buoy with 
                                    trailing string of green floats
bottom tripod  40 29.44' 70 30.23'  no surface expression
 (Agrawal's)
OSU subsurface 40 29.52' 70 30.46'  small sphere with short spar
OSU met        40 29.37' 70 30.64'  surface buoy
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Inshore Site depth ~ 64 m

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mooring        latitude  longitude  descrip
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surface toroid 40 35.00' 70 27.50'  yellow toroid buoy label "X"
subsurface     40 34.98' 70 27.38'  no surface expression
northern guard 40 35.10' 70 27.30'  yellow buoy label "T"
southern guard 40 34.90' 70 27.30'  yellow buoy label "P"
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Offshore Site depth ~ 86 m

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mooring        latitude  longitude  description
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surface toroid 40 23.01' 70 32.51'  yellow toroid buoy label "Y"
subsurface     40 23.00' 70 32.69'  no surface expression
northern guard 40 23.10' 70 32.70'  yellow buoy label "S"
southern guard 40 22.90' 70 32.69'  yellow buoy label "R"
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Alongshore Site depth ~ 70 m

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mooring        latitude  longitude  description
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surface toroid 40 28.50' 70 20.00'  yellow toroid buoy label "W"
subsurface     40 28.50' 70 20.15'  no surface expression
northern guard 40 28.60' 70 20.21'  yellow buoy label "O"
southern guard 40 28.40' 70 20.19'  yellow buoy label "Q"
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