Examples of PO Field Programs
Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project
Ongoing
Ice, ocean, atmosphere. These three components constitute the health of the Arctic climate. At the heart of this system is one of the least studied bodies of water on the planet: the Beaufort Gyre, a slowly swirling bowl of icy water north of Alaska ten times the size of Lake Michigan.
Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO)
August 2025
The Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) team loads gear onto the Air-Sea Interaction Tower.
Upstream Pathways of the Faroe Overflow (UFO) in the subpolar North Atlantic
August 2025
UFO is multi-institutional, interdisciplinary effort to study the origin and pathways of the dense water that feeds the Faroe Bank Channel overflow.
Deploying an IWR Array of the Aleutians through the NOPP Global Internal Wave Study
July 2025
The IWR Array team from the National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP) Global Internal Wave (NGIW) study deployed an Internal Wave Resolving Array south off the Aleutian Islands as part of cruise AT50-39. The array comprises nine current- and pressure-sensor equipped inverted echo sounders (CPIESs) from WHOI, surrounding a full water column mooring from Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
NOPP
April 2024
As part of the National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP) Global Internal Wave study (NGIW), the Internal Wave Resolving (IWR) Array team, funded by the Office of Naval Research, successfully turned around the IWR Array deployed west of California in the SWOT cal/val crossover site.
SPURS-2 Cruise
August-September 2016
The R/V Revelle team went in search of very special conditions in the eastern tropical Pacific. Conceptually, SPURS-2 is built around observing all the processes that lead to rainfall mixing into the ocean and the resulting large-scale variations of salinity that we detect from space.
To the Denmark Strait
August 23 - September 24, 2011
Researchers hunt for the origins of a mysterious current in the North Atlantic
Dynamite: Dynamics of Abyssal Mixing and Interior Transports Experiment
May to June, 2011
Follow researchers as the study deep mixing and circulation in the North Atlantic ocean.
Vanishing Arctic
August 28, 2010
Dallas Murphy reports back from Bob Pickart’s expedition aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy to study the effects of warming and climate change in the Arctic.
Irminger Sea
information about the water and atmosphere to learn how storms influence the sea.
Polar Discovery
2007-2009
Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) are on their way to a North Pole ice camp to deploy instruments that will make year-round observations of the water beneath the Arctic ice cap to learn more about the changing global climate.
Ocean InSight: Irminger Rings in the Labrador Sea
September 19 to 28, 2007
Join oceanographer Amy Bower as she travels on the R/V Knorr to the Labrador Sea to install a deep water mooring and technology to observe currents. She will be posting interactive updates on the OceanInsight website, which has special enhancements for the visually impaired.
Edge of the Arctic Shelf
2002-2004
A series of three expeditions from 2002 to 2004, the Edge of the Arctic shelf covers cruises that represent the physical oceanographic component of the Western Arctic Shelf Basin Interactions (SBI) Experiment. The overall goal is to understand how the Arctic shelves communicate with the interior basin from a coupled physical--biogeochemical standpoint.