Galapagos MT

Galapagos wire walker

We seek a few days of shiptime to recover and redeploy a Wirewalker mooring within the Galapagos archipelago and do some simple water sampling at both locations. The mooring is configured to be deployed in roughly 400 m of water and is presently ~20 km north of Kicker Rock off the NW coast of San Cristobal Island. We wish to recover the mooring and redeploy it in Elizabeth Bay on the west side of Isabela Island. These two deployments are funded components of our NSF project "Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: The influence of different nutrient delivery modes on functional biodiversity of marine plankton in a changing ocean". The Wirewalker was deployed last summer from the RV Langseth and we had intended to use an Ecuadorian vessel for the recovery and redeployment but that has not been possible to arrange. We estimate 3 days of shiptime will be needed, half of which is transit time between the two locations.