ALOHA Cabled Observatory Service - 2023
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PortMooring / vehicle
Operating area: Station ALOHA 22d 45m N, 158d 0m W
Route: Honolulu (Hawaii) - United States → Honolulu (Hawaii) - United States
Aug 19 – Aug 27, 20238 days at seaactual: departed Aug 19, 2023, arrived Aug 27, 2023
Jul 2023
Aug
Sep
Kilo Moana
University of Hawaii
NGA LTER 2023 2 of 2 Transit +1 — Northern Gulf of Alaska to Honolulu, HIHOT 2023- 4 of10 — Station ALOHA is the long-term study site for the HOT programALOHA Cabled Observatory Service - 2023 +2 — Station ALOHA 22d 45m N, 158d 0m WSTEMSEAS — Off shore Hawaiian IslandsHOT 2022 - 341 (7) — Station ALOHA is the long-term study site for the HOT program
Projects aboard (3)
DWS 2
Deep water instrument tests and experiments.
People aboard
DWS 2
- Jeff Book · Principal investigator
ALOHA Cabled Observatory Service - 2023
- Jim Potemra · Principal investigator
Lu'ukai Maintenance
- Anita Lopez · Principal investigator
Party size: 15
Estimated vacant berths: 14
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Overboarding Cable - Fiber Optic
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Underway Seawater System
- Meteorological Data
- Echosounder, 12kHz
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 250-350m (e.g. 150kHz)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 500-750m (e.g. 75kHz)
- Multibeam - Deep Water (EM122, EM124)
- Ultra-Short Base-Line Acoustic Navigation System
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Overboarding Cable - Fiber Optic
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Crane
- Stern A-Frame
Pooled / portable
- Other ROV
- Gyrocompass
- Other ROV
- Other ROV
Science party brings
- Science-provided vans
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code KM2314 ACO · MFP references 21/1260, 22/1572, 22/2580 · synced Sep 30, 2026