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Deployment/Recovery
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Location
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Oct/Nov
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Fowler
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Joe
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Sept.
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Matt
Fowler
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Marianas
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Sept.
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Onnuri
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UPDATES
September
2003 - Matt Fowler will be servicing the northern north Atlantic
hydrophone array for the first time. Mooring operations will be
done on the British ship RRS Discovery.
April
2003 - Joe Haxel is servicing the north Atlantic hydrophone from
the Columbia University ship R/V Maurice Ewing.
February
2003 - Matt Fowler conducted the initial deployment of 5 hydrophones
from the Ring of Fire '03 Ocean Exploration cruise in the Marianas
back arc basin. This was a multidisciplinary cruise with 21 scientists
from the U.S., New Zealand and Japan.
July,
2002 - Robert Dziak and Matt Fowler will be servicing the two hydrophones
missed on the February cruise in the Central North Atlantic. 2003
servicing cruise is tentatively scheduled for April on the R/V Ewing.
June
2002:Matt Fowler and Joe Haxel serviced the Gulf of Alaska hydrophones
using the R/V Ewing. Three of the five hydrophones were recovered
(one lost due to release failure; another not recovered due to weather).
May
2002: Chris Fox and Haru Matsumoto joined French scientists on Le
Suroit to deploy a new array around the Mid-Atlantic Ridge north
of the Azores. The Mid-Atlantic ridge is now serviced with a total
of twelve hydrophones.
February
2002: Robert Dziak and Matt Fowler serviced the Central North Atlantic
array from the University of Rhode Island's R/V Endeavor.
Two of the six hydrophones were not recovered due to severe weather.
In July 2002, they will attempt to service these two hydrophones
from the Endeavour.
November
2001: Matt Fowler successfully serviced the East Pacific Rise array
from the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown.
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