Experiments

  • Mooring Cruise on 30 Jun 2023
    We had another day cruise out to visit our mooring on the Encourager with Captain Jarrett Drake.  This time we did a quick turn-around: replacing the batteries and SD card with the acoustic data, then replacing the mooring to collect another 6 weeks or so of data.   Perfect weather and calm seas made for an…
  • Mooring Recovery Cruise on 2 Nov 2022
    We had a half-day cruise on the F/V Encourager to recover our acoustic recording mooring deployed 6 weeks earlier in Buzzards Bay.   The mooring recorded underwater acoustic data for our acoustic rainfall estimation project.   MNE MS student Patrick Pasteris rode along to test his Aurelia vertical profiler.  All photos by J. Buck unless otherwise indicated.…