OOI-Papa 2024
Completed
Planned route: 10 segments · ~7 days steaming · 8 stations
Operating area: Station Papa. Gulf of Alaska
Route: Seward (Alaska) - United States → Seward (Alaska) - United States
Projects aboard (2)
OOI-Papa 2024
This is the tenth cruise (ninth turnaround) for the Global Station Papa Array of the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI; http://www.oceanobservatories.org). The Station Papa Array includes a network of moorings and gliders to monitor waters in the data sparse high latitudes of the Gulf of Alaska. The moorings and the gliders give the array the capability to address the role of the mesoscale flow field in ocean dynamics
People aboard
OOI-Papa 2024
- Deidra Emrich · Principal investigator
Waves at Papa YR3
- Jim Thomson · Principal investigator
Party size: 12
Estimated vacant berths: 12
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Crane
- Stern A-Frame
- Navigation - Heading/Position
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Underway Seawater System
- Meteorological Data
- Echosounder, 12kHz
- ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 250-350m (e.g. 150kHz)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 500-750m (e.g. 75kHz)
- Multibeam - Shallow-water (EM710/712/2040/Seabat 7100)
- Multibeam - Mid-Water (EM302/304)
Pooled / portable
- CTD
- Winch Pool Portable Winch
Science party brings
- Portable Laboratory Vans/Containers - Science Supplied
- Science-provided vans ×2
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code SKQ202408S · MFP references 23/2894, 21/851 · synced Sep 30, 2026