GoMOOS Moored Buoy Program Physical Oceanography Group School of Marine Sciences University of Maine

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Text Listings: GoMOOS buoys (last 10 days)

Site	Location	Start Date	Latitude	Longitude	Mooring Status	Light List Letter	Light List Number
A01	Massachusetts Bay	2001-07-10	42° 31.36´N	070° 33.95´W	2008-04-29	A	367
B01	Western Maine Shelf	2001-07-09	43° 10.89´N	070° 25.67´W	2008-04-16	B	113
C02	Casco Bay	2002-03-26	43° 34.06´N	070° 03.50´W	2008-04-17	C	48 (7483)
D01	New Meadows River	2006-10-06	43° 47.00´N	069° 53.29´W	2007-12-30	D	6559
E01	Central Maine Shelf	2001-07-09	43° 42.83´N	069° 21.31´W	2008-04-21	E	30 (4935)
F01	Penobscot Bay	2001-07-08	44° 03.33´N	068° 59.89´W	2008-04-22	F	4052
I01	Eastern Maine Shelf	2001-07-24	44° 06.32´N	068° 06.56´W	2008-04-22	I	2296
J02	Cobscook Bay	2001-09-24	44° 53.36´N	067° 00.74´W	2008-01-28	J	1002
L01	Scotian Shelf	2001-07-25	43° 37.65´N	066° 33.25´W	2008-02-04	-
M01	Jordan Basin	2001-07-12	43° 29.47´N	067° 52.45´W	2008-01-06	M	6
N01	Northeast Channel	2004-06-03	42° 19.60´N	065° 54.57´W	2008-04-19	-

October 2006: New Meadows buoy D01 established downriver from Cundy's Harbor.
October 2006: Dual wind sensors on all GoMOOS buoys.
October 2004: Barometric pressure measurements added to all GoMOOS buoys.
June 2004: A new site N01 has been established in the Northeast Channel, south of Browns Bank. Available data from this mooring include surface winds, waves, air temperature, and visibility as well as ocean temperature and currents at selected depths down to near-bottom.
October 2003: The GoMOOS mooring K01 (Saint John, New Brunswick) has been recovered. Due to funding shortfalls, it is not planned to redeploy another mooring at this time. Historical data are still available.
13 March 2003: Buoy L New Location Notice

NOAA's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) operates and maintains the sites in black. on the above map.
Environment Canada operates and maintains site 44258 (in blue).
Wave modeling results are also available for the Gulf of Maine (Texas A&M)
Link to Current Moorings: Active files or Historical

Mooring Program Field Work:

Operations during 2005 on R/V Argo Maine and Delaware; Buoy A repair on F/V Tully IV
(Photos courtesy of J.Wallinga(UME), S.Wagner(NOAA), and J.Wallinga (UME))

2008:
• April 15-24, 2008: Buoys A01, B01, C02, E01, F01, I01 and N01 serviced by the R/V DELAWARE II
• Feb 3-4, 2008: Buoys L01, E01, and F01 serviced by the R/V Argo Maine
• Jan 4, 2008: Buoy J02 serviced with the help of Heritage Salmon, Eastport.
2007 Field Work
2006 Field Work
2005 Field Work
2004 Field Work
2003 Field Work
2002 Field Work
2001 Field Work

References:

• The GoMOOS Moored Buoy Design, J.Wallinga, N.Pettigrew, J.Irish, Oceans 2003: PDF or Word Doc file
• Buoy Metadata
• Standard Measurements on a GoMOOS buoy