GoMOOS Buoy Cruise GM031021 Physical Oceanography Group School of Marine Sciences University of Maine

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GM031021 Cruise:

Six GoMOOS moorings were serviced on the R/V Connecticut from 6-11 October 2003. The R/V Connecticut departed Groton, Connecticut early on 6 October and arrived in at the Gloucester Public Fish Pier on 6 October at 1200 local. Moorings M0104, L0104, and E0107 were loaded onto the vessel and the ship then transited to mooring M0103 in the Jordan Basin to begin recovery operations. After M0103 was recovered and M0104 was deployed, the ship transited to L0103 to turn around the mooring at that site. When operations at L were completed, the ship transited to site E for mooring operations on 9 October 2003. The ship then recovered C0203 before docking in Portland, offloaded all recovered moorings and loaded new moorings C0204, B0105, and A0107. Loading operations were completed early on 10 October, and the ship departed Portland at 0600 local on 10 October. The new mooring C0204 was deployed, followed by the turnaround of the mooring at site B during the afternoon of 10 October. Mooring A0106 was recovered later that night and the new mooring A0107 was deployed the following morning of 11 October. A two-hour test of current meters was completed and the ship returned to Gloucester at 1200 local on 11 October. Equipment was offloaded by 1430 local for the return to the University of Maine.

In addition to mooring operations, underway data were logged including the near-surface shipboard SBE-45 (temperature and salinity), and the ADCP current profiler mounted in the hull of the vessel. CTD casts were taken at each mooring site to a depth approximately 5 meters above the bottom, using the Seabird 9/11+ CTD system provided by the ship.

Mooring Operations:

A list of the moorings recovered are shown in the table below:

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Location	Mooring ID	Date/Time (UTC)	Latitude	Longitude	Water Depth (m)