We continue to see a relatively weak drawdown of sea surface carbon dioxide CO₂ at the M2 Bering Sea mooring site. 🧪🌊🦑🛟 #MooringMonday #DY2504
www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/M2...
You can see the effects of sea ice on sea surface temperature from our #DY2504 cruise track. 🧪🌊🦑
A large, yellow buoy is deployed from a research vessel.
We recently deployed the M2 surface mooring, Peggy, with our seawater carbon dioxide sensor in the #BeringSea.
#FieldworkFriday #DY2504 🧪🌊🦑
Fig. 1. (a) Eastern Bering Sea (EBS) shelf. Black triangle: location of the M2 mooring, the source for temperature data used in this study; shaded blue hexagons: the binned density of survey observations across the EBS shelf (lighter blue: more survey locations or more frequent surveys than dark blue). Inset: survey area in the EBS (black polygon). (b) Frequency of days in April and May that have dominant southwest winds at the M2 mooring. (c) Cumulative spring degree days (°C) (day of year [DOY] 1–138) at the M2 mooring
We are back from the spring #BeringSea cruise! 🧪🌊🦑
#DY2504 #ZoopScoop
#NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center leads the rapid zooplankton assessment of this highly productive subarctic food web. Check out their latest paper! @currycunningham.bsky.social
doi.org/10.3354/meps...
Photographs of science and crew aboard a Bering Sea research cruise on the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson.
The spring Bering Sea mooring cruise on the #NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson was a success! #DY2504
20 mooring operations
50 Bongo net tows
💯 CTD casts
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It’s a tad breezy today.
#AlaskaSky #DY2504
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Pacific white-sided dolphins
#AlaskaSky #DY2504
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🎥 B. Kimber
We study how #OceanAcidification affects fisheries and submit our findings to the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council through the Ecosystem Status Reports. #DY2504 🧪🌊🦑
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/ecosy...
NOAA Fisheries poster highlighting the Alaska Walleye Pollock fishery, the largest volume fishery in the United States.
#Alaska hosts the largest volume fishery and the three largest fishing ports in the 🇺🇸. #DY2504 🧪🌊🦑
We are currently aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. #DY2504 🧪🌊🦑
The north side of Umnak Alaska from the research vessel NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson
Umnak
#AlaskaSky #DY2504
A marine mammal acoustician deploys a passive acoustic mooring from a ship near Umnak, Alaska.
The last mooring was deployed on the spring #BeringSea mooring cruise! 🙌
CTDs and Bongos until we tie up. #DY2504 🧪🌊🦑🐋 #FieldworkFriday
>36 #Laysan
1 Short-tailed #Albatross
Samalga Pass
#AlaskaSky #DY2504
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Hi Ery!
-Your 🦀 larva friend
#DY2504 🧪🌊🦑
🎥 B.Kimber
Name that creature!
Bongo 🥅 depth = 500m #BeringSea #DeepSea #DY2504 🧪🌊🦑
🎥 B.Kimber
Fun! Will you be collecting discrete seawater samples during profiling CTDs?
We should arrive at Samalga Pass tonight. #DY2504
Marine organisms sampled from a 500m deep Bongo net tow in the Bering Sea.
We’ve picked up a few new shipmates at our deeper stations. 🧪🌊🦑🐙
#BeringSea #Cephalopod #ZoopScoop #DY2504
📸 H.Weinrich
#DY2504 #BeringSea 🧪🌊🦑
🎥 H. Weinrich
#TimeoutTuesday #DY2504 #BeringSea🧪🌊🦑
We took a break from sampling yesterday…😉
🎥 B.Kimber
Scientists on the research vessel NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collect water and plankton samples in the Bering Sea
The storm has passed, the seas have laid down, and we are all smiles again on #DY2504.
🧪🌊🦑 #BeringSea
#WorkingtogetherWednesday
An oceanographer waits for a bongo net to be deployed from the research vessel NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson.
The oceanographic mooring lead reviews a mooring design before deployment.
A scientist waits in a lab where water samples are processed aboard the research vessel NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson.
#MooringMonday #DY2504
Mike is the #NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Lab mooring lead. He’s also a pro at Bongo and CTDs! 🧪🌊🦑
Map from Windy.com of modeled wind speeds for the eastern Bering Sea. Orange and red colors are >35 mph sustained winds.
We have left the sea ice edge and are heading south to our cross shelf stations. #BeringSea. Winds are >35mph sustained and seas are >10feet. #DY2504
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🗺️💨 by Windy.com
Oceanographers do a repeat research cruise in the spring each year. Lucky for us the ship has every Star Wars movie for an annual May the Fourth be with you marathon.
We started on May 4 GMT just to make sure we had enough time for science and movies. 😂 #DY2504 🧪🌊
Oceanographers and ship’s crew line the walls of the research vessel NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson with photographs of their pets at home.
Geese are seen flying next to the research vessel NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson in the Bering Sea.
We think these are cackling geese, perhaps the Aleutian subspecies (with a little help from a Frosty friend 😉).
Are we oceanographers or birders? 🧪🌊🦑🪿
#NorthToAlaska #SpringMigration #FieldworkFriday #AlaskaSky #DY2504
Crew and scientists aboard the research NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson sample sea ice in the Bering Sea.
The 🧬 genomics team scores an ice sample! #eDNA #DY2504 🧪🌊🦑🥅🧊
📸 J. Gann
As we make our way north on #DY2504, we should see more and more sea ice. 🧪🌊🦑 #BeringSea #AlaskaSky