Event Calendar
- Nearshore moorings deployed, 3/9–10/31
- Entrance moorings deployed, 3/30–9/30
- Deploy HF radar, 7/15–8/5
- Media event to launch Sound Predictions 2009. 7/16, 1 pm. AOOS conference room, 1007 W. Third Ave., Suite 100, Anchorage. Meet the field team leader, Dr. Scott Pegau of the Oil Spill Recovery Institute, Cordova. See what a drifter looks like. Learn what’s planned for the field experiment, and how you can tune into what’s happening in the field.
Auklet loads, deploy glider, and initial CTD surveys, 7/19–8/3- Vixen and Alena K load and depart to provide initial surveys and service nearshore moorings, 7/20–8/3
- Deploy drifters in central Sound, 7/21–25
- Meet the Scientists event, 7/28, 11 am, Valdez Convention Center. Open house, noon, Valdez Harbor. Meet the scientists, see the instruments used for the experiment. Meet the kids from Cordova demonstrating how their handmade ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) can “clean up an oil spill,” view a demonstration of new technology that allows for balloon surveillance of potential spills at night.
- Deploy drifters in central Sound, 7/29–8/2
Right: View of Knowles Head from Mt. Eyak, near Cordova. (Hank Stascewich)
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