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Fouled tripod and instrumentation recovered from the Red Sea.

Fouled tripod and instrumentation recovered from the Red Sea.
Fouled tripod and instrumentation recovered from the Red Sea.
Fouled tripod and instrumentation recovered from the Red Sea.
Fouled tripod and instrumentation recovered from the Red Sea.
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Churchill, Jim
Fouled tripod and instrumentation recovered from the Red Sea.
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03/17/2011
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Notes from Jim Churchill:
The work was mostly recovery and redeployment of equipment. It was part of a KAUST project on which Steve Lentz and I share co-PI duty. It was essentially a 3-part process. In Part-1, Steve and I worked with Craig Marquette (essentially taking directions from Craig) in recovering and redeploying instruments over and around a few coral reefs. The work was done using the KAUST 32-ft Whaler, and sometimes with the assistance of KAUST divers. In Part 2, Steve and Craig carried on alone. In the buildup to Part 3, Steve and Craig headed home and I returned solo to the Kingdom. I didn't labor alone during Part-3, however. During the early phase of Part-3, I tagged along with Tom Farrar's group, which consisted of John Kemp, Jim Ryder, Sean Whelan and Jason Smith. They recovered a couple of our moorings and one of our tripods, which had been deployed in Nov. 2009. In the later phase of Part-3, I worked with KAUST divers (and with John Kemp and Jim Ryder) in recovering a stubborn tripod, which would not release its pickup float when acoustically commanded. The KAUST divers (who are great) also did some specialized deployments on and near our principal reefs. Part-3 closed out on Dec. 23.
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After a year in the Red Sea, this tripod is sporting a colorful growth of coral. It was recovered by John Kemp and Jim Ryder during a cruise led by Tom Farrar. The tripod's acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) measured water velocity over the Red Sea shelf as part of a study headed by Steve Lentz and Jim Churchill through a collaborative partnership with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. The data are being analyzed to better understand the dynamics of wind-driven currents and surface wave propogation over the Red Sea shelf.
Photo by Jim Churchill
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