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Met Buoy Recovery

Scheduled
Blue Heron

Blue Heron

University of Minnesota Duluth · USA

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Planned routeResearch area

Planned route: 2 segments · ~5 hours steaming

Operating area: Western Lake Superior

Route: To be confirmed → To be confirmed

Nov 3, 20261 day at sea
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Project aboard

Cruises to deploy and recovery meteorological buoys

People aboard

  • Richard Ricketts · Principal investigator

Party size: 6

Estimated vacant berths: 0

Equipment

Aboard the vessel

  • Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
  • Crane
  • Stern A-Frame
  • Underway Seawater System
  • pCO2
  • Meteorological Data
  • Echosounder, 12kHz
  • ADCP/UHDAS – range 250-350m (e.g. 150kHz)

Pooled / portable

  • CTD

Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · MFP reference 25/6556 · synced Sep 24, 2026