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PortMooring / vehicle
Operating area: Atlantis II Seamounts (38.36N, 63.00W)
Route: Woods Hole (Massachusetts) - United States → Woods Hole (Massachusetts) - United States
Jun 9 – Jun 14, 20225 days at seaactual: departed Jun 9, 2022, arrived Jun 14, 2022
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Project aboard
The research objectives of this project include investigating three-dimensional (3D) propagation, scattering and ambient sound of the acoustic field in the low to mid-frequency range around the Atlantis II Seamounts using an integrated network of sensors
People aboard
- Ying-Tsong (YT) Lin · Principal investigator
Party size: 15
Estimated vacant berths: 19
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Underway Seawater System
- Meteorological Data
- Echosounder, 12kHz
- Echosounder, 3.5kHz CHIRP
- Pinger, 12kHz
- ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 250-350m (e.g. 150kHz)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 1000m-1200m (e.g. 38kHz)
- Multibeam - Deep Water (EM122, EM124)
- Biological multi-frequency echosounder - EK80
- Ultra-Short Base-Line Acoustic Navigation System
Pooled / portable
- CTD
- XBT
Science party brings
- Science-provided vans ×2
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code AR68 · MFP reference 22/1748 · synced Sep 24, 2026