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Slocum Glider in the water after deployment.

Slocum Glider in the water after deployment.
Slocum Glider in the water after deployment.
Slocum Glider in the water after deployment.
Slocum Glider in the water after deployment.
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Decoteau, Kenneth
Slocum Glider in the water after deployment.
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09/15/2012
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WHOI/MIT Joint Program student Alec Bogdanoff (holding line) and Pete Liarikos, bosun on research vessel Knorr, tested a glider named "Boomer" (after a character from the television show Battlestar Galactica) during a September cruise measuring salinity in the so-called salinity maximum of the Atlantic Ocean. The glider, which measures turbulance, is one of several shallow-diving gliders operated by WHOI scientist Louis St. Laurent and engineer Ken Decoteau. To test Boomer's ballast, researchers had the glider perform a few initial dives with a buoy attached. Boomer proved to be stable, so the line was removed and the glider sent on the first of two one-week missions.
This Slocum glider is also referred to as a T-Glider.
On or about 6 September 2012, you will depart Woods Hole, MA on Voyage KN209-01. Upon completion of science activities, the vessel shall transit to the port of Ponta Delgada, Azores on or before 9 October 2012.
The science objectives of this cruise are as follows:
Deploy three surface moorings in the North Atlantic salinity maximum at 25N, 38 W. Deploy floats, gliders and other AUV's. Perform microstructure and mixing measurements with free profilers. Perform CTD casts and log underway thermosalinograph data in the region of the surface salinity maximum.
The scientific personnel participating on this cruise are under the direction of Dr. Raymond Schmitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Photo by Ken Decoteau
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/category/spurs/
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