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S-MODE 2023

Completed
Sally Ride

Sally Ride

Scripps Institution of Oceanography · USA

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Planned route: 2 segments · ~3 days steaming

Operating area: Approximately 150 miles west of San Francisco, near 34.75N, 125.5W.

Route: San Diego (California) - United States → Alameda (California) - United States

Apr 9 – May 3, 202324 days at seaactual: departed Apr 9, 2023, arrived May 3, 2023

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Projects aboard (2)

S-MODE 2023

Area of operations: Off San Francisco (34.75N, 125.5W). Deployment/recovery of gliders, Wave Gliders, floats. Deployment of drifters. Use of Underway CTD and/or towed undulating platform (like SeaSoar). Fieldwork coordinated with aircraft measurements to study small scale eddies by sampling in 50km-by-50km area.

People aboard

S-MODE 2023

  • Tom Farrar · Principal investigator

IRISS

  • Tom Farrar · Chief scientist
  • Andrew Jessup · Principal investigator

Party size: 17

Estimated vacant berths: 9

Equipment

Aboard the vessel

  • Dynamic Positioning (DP)
  • Underway Seawater System
  • Meteorological Data
  • ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)

Pooled / portable

  • CTD

Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code SR2307 Shcherbina · MFP references 22/1582, 21/945 · synced Sep 30, 2026