BERING STRAIT MOORINGS
2009 Khromov Cruise
RUSALCA 2009 Leg 1
August/September 2009
Expedition Leader: Vladimir Bakhmutov (State Research Navigational Hydrographical Institute, Russian Federation)
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An NSF and NOAA supported US-Russian Collaboration between
University of Washington (UW)
(lead PI: Rebecca Woodgate)
University of Alaska Fairbanks
(lead PI: Tom Weingartner)
Arctic & Antarctic Research Institute
(lead PIs: Mikhail Kulakov and Valerian Golavski)
Faciliated by Group Alliance, Russian Federation
 
Corresponding author: Rebecca Woodgate (woodgate@apl.washington.edu)

Funded by:

NSF (National Science Foundation) Polar Programs ARC-0632154
Part of  the International Polar Year (IPY)
AON (Arctic Observing Network)

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NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration )
Arctic Program

Part of RUSALCA  (Russian-American Long-Term Census of the Arctic)
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Research vessel Professor Khromov (also known as Spirit of Enderby, operated by Heritage Expeditions) (Photo by Aleksey Ostrovskiy, 2009)

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2009 RUSALCA LEG 1
2009 Khromov Cruise Overview
2009 Khromov Mooring Cruise Map
2009 Khromov Mooring Cruise Report

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RUSALCA 2009 KHROMOV LEG 1 CRUISE OVERVIEW
RUSALCA 2009 KHROMOV LEG 1 CRUISE MAP

As part of the joint US-Russian RUSALCA (Russian US Long-term Census of the Arctic) Program, a team of US and Russian scientists undertook two oceanographic cruises in August/September 2009 on board the Russian vessel ‘Khromov’, operated by Heritage Expeditions (under the name of Spirit of Enderby). This report concerns the first of these cruises, Leg 1, in August 2009.

The major objective of the Leg 1 cruise was mooring work in the Bering Strait region, i.e., the recovery and redeployment of 8 moorings, a joint project by the University of Washington (UW), the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF), and the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI).The US portion of the mooring recoveries are supported by an NSF-OPP IPY grant(PIs: Woodgate, Weingartner, Whitledge and Lindsay). The US portion of the mooring deployments are supported by a NOAA-RUSALCA grant (PIs: Woodgate, Weingartner, Whitledge and Lindsay). The moorings measure water velocity,temperature, salinity, ice motion, ice thickness (crudely) and some bio-optics.
RUSALCA 2009 Leg 1 Mooring Cruise Map
Map of the Bering Strait region (left) and detail of the strait (right) showing Khromov RUSALCA 2009 Leg 1 CTD sites (small green dots) and mooring locations for the eight moorings recovered in 2009(A12-08, A11-08, A13-08, A2W-08, A2-08, A4-08, A4R-08, and A3-08) and the eight moorings deployed in 2009 (A12-09, A11-09, A13-09, A3-09, A2W-09, A2-09, A4W-09, A4-09, and A3-09). Blue dots with red center indicate a site of recovery and deployment. Blue dot (A4W) indicates deployment only. Depth contours are every 10m from the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean [Jakobsson et al., 2000]  
RUSALCA 2009 LEG 1 Khromov Cruise Report - August/September 2009

For use of any of these figures, please contact Rebecca Woodgate (woodgate@apl.washington.edu)
© Polar Science Center, University of Washington, 2009

We gratefully acknowledge financial support for this work the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
 
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