September 19th Photos

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Jeff O’Brien (WHOI) and Cory Beatty (University of Montana) head out to survey the quality of the ice floe. (Fred Marin)
Our dedicated Polar bear guard Vincent Mullet (CCG), stands guard throughout our day on the ice. (Gary Morgan)
Jeff O’Brien (WHOI) Cory Beatty (University of Montana) auger an 11” hole through a meter of ice for an Ice Tethered Profiler (ITP) deployment. (Gary Morgan)
Scientists and CCG crew members work to assemble the tripod and winch system for an Ice Tethered Profiler (ITP) deployment. (Gary Morgan)
Jeff O’Brien (WHOI), Fred Marin (WHOI), and Cory Beatty (University of Montana) mount the ITP profiler to its mooring cable. (Gary Morgan)
Cory Beatty (University of Montana) does a final check on his Submersible Autonomous Moored Instrument - CO2 (SAMI-CO2) before it is deployed with the ITP. (Gary Morgan)
Jeff O’Brien (WHOI) and Fred Marin (WHOI) attach a SBE microcat CTD to the Tethered Ocean Profiler (TOP) mooring cable just above the anchor. (Gary Morgan)
Jeff O’Brien (WHOI) attaches the Tethered Ocean Profiler (TOP), which he worked to develop, onto its mooring cable for the first TOP deployment. (Gary Morgan)
Jeff O’Brien (WHOI) and Peer Klattenhoff (CCG) secure the Tethered Ocean Profiler’s (TOP) upper clamp to the mooring cable. (Gary Morgan)
The Tethered Ocean Profiler (TOP) is fully assembled and the final few feet of mooring cable is lowered through the ice. (Gary Morgan)
Fred Marin (WHOI) and Peer Klattenhoff (CCG) auger the TOPs grounding rod through the foam buoy. (Gary Morgan)
Jeff O’Brien (WHOI) lowers the grounding rod through the buoy and ice where it will be connected to the surface package completing the instruments inductive loop. (Gary Morgan)
The ice station science party gather for a group photo at the end of the day (from left: LoTc Jacquemot (Laval University), “Seo” Masataka Seo (TUMSAT), Yuanxin “Xin” Zhang (TUMSAT), Bingkun Luo (University of Miami), Sarah Zimmerman (Chief Scientist, IOS), Jeff O’Brien (WHOI), Kohei Sato (Kitami Institute of Technology), Hiromi Kimura (Kitami Institute of Technology), Cory Beatty (University of Montana), and Fred Marin (WHOI). (Masahiro "Mash" Saito)
Our work for today is complete: (left) remnants of a transect surveying the ice floe; (front) Ice Tethered Profiler; (center, right) Seasonal Ice Mass Balance Buoy; (far) Tethered Ocean Profiler. (Fred Marin)

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