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Mooring buoy being serviced on the fantail for redeployment.

Mooring buoy being serviced on the fantail for redeployment.
Mooring buoy being serviced on the fantail for redeployment.
Mooring buoy being serviced on the fantail for redeployment.
Mooring buoy being serviced on the fantail for redeployment.
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Heiderich, Joleen
Mooring buoy being serviced on the fantail for redeployment.
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01/10/2018
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Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tend to a surface buoy on the deck of the research vessel Neil Armstrong. It was the latest expedition of the PEACH project, a multi-institutional collaboration to assess how climate change is affecting the coastal ocean off Cape Hatteras. On this cruise, the team led by WHOI physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz observed 70?F Gulf Stream water intruding onto the continental shelf, replacing the at least 10-degree-cooler water from the North Atlantic that normally flows there. And the direction of flow at the steep edge of the shelf was reversed: northward instead of southward. Gawarkiewicz says the persistent intrusion of warmer water is a disturbing trend that could have major implications for the ecosystem and coastal fishing industry.
Photo by Joleen Heiderich
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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