ESP-3(jake) was deployed in eastern Maine coastal waters near UMOOS/NERACOOS I on Wed afternoon June 17 from the R/V Tioga. Special thanks to the Captain and crew of the ship and the WHOI mooring operations personnel for safely deploying the mooring... and to EOM Offshore, Inc. for the mooring preparation and support. ESPjake's mission will run through the end of July sampling about 5-6 times per week.. Please see the attached map of the approximate ESP mooring locations. ESPjake's first 3 results at the end of this week were weakly positive with NA1 probe spot intensities estimated in the 70-150 cells/L range and in general agreement with /Alexandrium/ sp. live count samples collected along a transect from the mooring location offshore to the shore between Bass Harbor and Southwest Harbor, ME. The latest ESP data are available at the following website...just click on ESPjake for the ESP results from eastern Maine coastal waters. http://science.whoi.edu/esp/fieldcelldata Meanwhile, the missions of both ESP-1(don) and ESP-2(dennis) are now complete with only weak positive signals recorded over the recent 6 week period. While we planned to recover ESP-1 (don) during the deployment cruise, that effort was not possible due to increased SW winds as we arrived on station for the recovery operations. To be safe, the recovery was called off for another day, currently scheduled for early August. ESP-2(dennis) is now out of resources and is almost out of power after a full 6 week error-free run, but will continue reporting CTD and SUNAv2 (nitrate) data until the end of the month or until the power finally runs out. Until next week....have a nice weekend on this upcoming father's day, Bruce -- Bruce Keafer Research Associate (ESP lab - Dr. Don Anderson) Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems (LOSOS) Mail Stop 57 Woods Hole Oceanographic Instituion Woods Hole, MA 02543 508-289-2509 (LOSOS office and ESP lab) Last updated: July 1, 2019 | |||||||||||
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