FSG testing 4
Completed
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PortPlanned routeResearch area
Planned route: 2 segments · ~7 hours steaming
Operating area: LA/MS Coastal Shelf
Route: Cocodrie (Louisiana) - United States → Cocodrie (Louisiana) - United States
Sep 28 – Sep 29, 20241 day at seaactual: departed Sep 28, 2024, arrived —
Sep 2024
Oct
Pelican
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
MERCI 4 — Flower Gardens expansion area (banks east of main sanctuary)Silicon-Microbe 2024 — Gulf of Mexico Louisiana Shelf: inshore of the 50 m isobath and the western side of the Mississippi River delta to ~75 nautical miles west. Diameter ~100nm.Shell Stones WS Buoy 2024 SV — GoMGF-Fa24 — Territorial waters of the coast of Louisiana
Project aboard
We will deploy the Flying Sea Glider over the side (no flying for these tests) at which point it will act as a conventional underwater glider. We will track and follow it with the ship for a 2-day mission. We will recover the glider at the end of the test.
People aboard
- Stearns Heinzen · Chief scientist
- Jeff Book · Principal investigator
Party size: 5
Estimated vacant berths: 11
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Crane
- Stern A-Frame
- Underway Seawater System
- Meteorological Data
- ADCP/UHDAS – range < 30m (e.g. 600kHz-1200kHz)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)
Pooled / portable
- CTD
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code BOOK · MFP reference 24/5029 · synced Sep 24, 2026