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Full House

July 16, 2014

Moorings and buoys secured to the crowded decks of the research vessel Knorr destined for Greenland and Iceland arrived in subpolar North Atlantic waters this month. The vessel also carried WHOI scientists launching a multi-year, multi-national program to measure and track ocean circulation. During the first year, the researchers will be positioning their moorings and instruments to begin ongoing water temperature, salinity, and current speed measurements in areas of the North Atlantic that have long been undersampled. The initial study period of the  U.S.-led Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program will last until 2018.(Photo by Richard Pittenger, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)