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2013: Jan 01 - Dec 31
15 July: Unofficial mtng at AMOC to hash out cruise planning. 01 August: Funding awarded. 01 September: Funding loaded, begin Year 1. 01-30 September: Purchase equipment, 40 RAFOS, 10 sound sources, mooring gear. 02 OCT: JValdes ordered long lead time items: [Source Subconn connectors, Source resonator tube stock, Source spherical transducer, Source electronics, RAFOS Floats]. See 'Equipment' link in sidebar for more details. 21 October: Lab meeting, notes in sidebar. - RAFOS equipped APEX or SOLO1s - Heather and Amy (respectively) to flush out now. - Jim V to order mounts for ceramics. 15 November - Heather delivers hydro props to Jim V for tuning. (Completed 22 November). 20 November - Heather delivered mooring fabrication parameters to R. Trask. NOV, DEC - modelling of tuning variables (Jim V.). 4 December - one APEX w/ RAFOS board pledged; Jim V. working on cost estimate for 'empty' SOLOs w/ RAFOS boards. No news from the UK Argo group. 2014: Jan 01 - Dec 31
Feb:sosos - burn in electronics, assemble resonators. 25-28 February: OSNAP meeting at Ocean Sciences Hawaii. March: remaining 38 RAFOS delivered. sosos - assemble resonators, dummy load. April: Ballasting. sosos - tune resonators, electroics tuning, assembly. May: finish sound source assembly, finish float ballasting. 14-16 June: mob days for Knorr at Woods Hole. Nine (9 of 10 total) sound sources (with wire, floatation, releases, anchors) and 40 (of 120) RAFOS to be loaded. 16 June - 30 June: Leg 1 Woods Hole to Reykjavic, three sources to be deployed. 02 July - 31 July: Leg 2 (old Leg 3) Reykjavic to Reykjavic, 20 RAFOS and 3 sources to be deployed in eastern OSNAP region (flanks of Reyjanes Ridge). 05 July: Depart St. John's GEOMAR Juergen Fischer 53N array servicing cruise: Johannes Karstensen loads our 10th sound source mooring in St. John's, and deploys at 57.5N 54.0W. 01 August - 01 September : Leg 3 (old Leg 2) Reykjavic to Reykjavic, 20 RAFOS and 3 sources to be deployed in western OSNAP region (at Cape Farewell). ->> When/where do monitoring APEX get delivered? 01 September: Begin Year 2. September: Order second set of 40 RAFOS. 2015: Jan 01 - Dec 3115 March: 40 RAFOS delivered.April: Ballasting. July: 20 RAFOS deployed on flanks of Reyjanes Ridge. August: 20 RAFOS deployed at Cape Farewell. 01 September: Begin Year 3. September: Order last 40 RAFOS. 2016: Jan 01 - Dec 3115 March: 40 RAFOS delivered.April: Ballasting. July: 20 RAFOS deployed on flanks of Reyjanes Ridge. August: 20 RAFOS deployed at Cape Farewell. 01 September: Begin Year 4. 2017: Jan 01 - Dec 31Summer: 40 3-yr and 40 2-yr RAFOS scheduled to surface (deployed summer 2014 and summer 2015).01 September: Begin Year 5. 2018: Jan 01 - Dec 31Summer: recover 6 of the original 10 sound sources. Sources not on Leg 2/3 lines are considered expendable.Summer: 40 2-year RAFOS scheduled to surface (deployed summer 2016). 31 August: End Year 5. Last updated: March 11, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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