New England Shelfbreak Front PRIMER Experiment

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The Primer '97 experiment was conducted to study the acoustic scattering and oceanography of shelfbreak fronts in the Winter and to compare these results with the Primer '96 experiment we conducted the previous summer in the same place.

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Coming to pick us up	Loading in the snow	Snow before departing	Surface float check
Float going over	Float aft	Deck and some waves	Closeup of a float
224Hz Source "Bertha"	Bertha in the air	Positioning a guard buoy	Guard buoy in the air
Guard buoy in the water	Shark getting readied	Floatation	The Bosun and crane
"Shark" (right)	"Shark" (left)	High Flyer up close	"Shark" on deck
"Shark's" surface buoy	WHOI's VLA up in air	Floatation device	Helping Hands
VLA strapped on deck	Taping the VLA	Figure eighting the VLA	Hold up at WHOI pier
Getting SeaSoar ready in the morning	Getting SeaSoar ready	SeaSoar going over	Putting VLA in at night
Sea conditions in winter	Going over a wavecrest	Weather forward	SeaSoar on deck
Some water on deck	Watching the wave	Kissing a wave	A little help from my friends
Deck in the wave	Chief Scientist, Dr. Glen Gawarkiewicz	SeaSoar crew waiting on a wave	Luigi demonstating survival gear
Sunset	Leaving Whoi pier	R/V Oceanus at pier	The Woods Hole
Nobska Lighthouse	Bringing in an ADCP	Lowering the ADCP	Damaged guard buoy (no top)
CTD going over	CTD work at sunset	CTD	Yoda imitation (hee hee)
	Undoing the ADCP	Hey, that's me! (and co-investigator Dr. Jim Lynch)

Last updated: July 22, 2011