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Nick Woods and Sophia Merrifield deploying a profiling float off Provincetown.

Nick Woods and Sophia Merrifield deploying a profiling float off Provincetown.
Nick Woods and Sophia Merrifield deploying a profiling float off Provincetown.
Nick Woods and Sophia Merrifield deploying a profiling float off Provincetown.
Nick Woods and Sophia Merrifield deploying a profiling float off Provincetown.
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Fratantoni, David
Nick Woods and Sophia Merrifield deploying a profiling float off Provincetown.
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05/25/2011
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Images feature PO Joint Program students Sophia Merrifield and Nick Woods, led by Dave Fratantoni. They are deploying three profiling floats (yellow instruments, standing vertically), one autonomous glider, and one surface drifter (2x4 with white sheets attached), in order to study the physics and biology off the coast of Cape Cod. The profilers and glider were equipped with acoustic sensors in order to detect whales (especially right whales), as well as a suite of sensors to determine the physical characteristics of the environment. The surface drifter sends its position via satellite, which is recorded to give a sense of the surface flow. Departing from Provincetown on the NOAA vessel Auk, they headed around Race Point, and deployed the instruments about 20 miles offshore. In addition to the instruments deployed, a small hand-held CTD (small orange instrument in photos with Sophie) was used to measure water properties.
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Nick Woods and Sophia Merrifield, students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, prepare to deploy a profiling float equipped with acoustic sensors that listen for whales and a suite of instruments that measure physical characteristics of the marine environment. The area they were working in, about 20 miles off Race Point at the tip of Cape Cod, is a rich feeding ground for whales, including endangered North Atlantic right whales.
Photo by David Fratantoni
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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