Mooring Activities at SAMS NERC 4 th Moorings Workshop 15 th /16 th May 2008 Mooring Activities at SAMS NERC 4 th Moorings Workshop 15 th /16 th May 2008 Colin Griffiths Scottish Association for Marine Science Oban, Argyll, Scotland.
Physics Group Mark Inall Toby Sherwin Tim Boyd Finlo Cottier Andy Dale Colin Griffiths John Beaton Estelle Dumont
Extended Ellett Line
Tiree Passage Mooring Mooring Met Stations Tide gauges CTD Line SST SSS Station
Tiree Passage Mooring
Faroe Bank Faroe- Shetland Channel Cirolana Deep Ymir Ridge Wyville- Thomson Ridge °C 60 cm/s 3.17 °C 120 cm/s Wyville Thomson Ridge Overflow Water cascade route
Acoustic Doppler Current Meter 4 acoustic heads Temperature sensor Recording unit
ICE EDGE PROGRAMME: Study area Rijpfjorden: CLEOPATRA, Ice amphipods Isfjorden: Ice amphipods, Leptoclinus maculatus Kongsfjorden: MariClim mooring
Mooring History Lance – April 2002 JCR – June 2002 Mosby – Sept 2002 Jan Mayen – May 2003 GO Sars – Sept 2003 Mosby – August 2004 JCR – July 2005 Lance – June 2006 Lance – August 2007 Temperature (full depth) Salinity (3 depths) Currents + ADCP (water column) 21-bottle Sediment Traps Flourescence
Rijpfjorden field station