This site is for recording maintenance records of the La Parguera Marine Reserve NOAA ICON/CREWS station for data management purposes. Please update this blog whenever new operations are performed in the field, so that NOAA/AOML can coordinate data management efforts with the La Parguera ICON/CREWS station field efforts.
Monday, October 25, 2010
CREWS Station Basic Cleaning in October
On Monday October 18th 2010 Wess Merten conducted a basic cleaning and assessment of the CREWs in La Parguera. I conducted a surface inspection, underwater inspection/cleaning, optical sensor cleaning, and a CTD sensor cleaning. One of the stations surface floats has disappeared sometime between this basic cleaning and te complete cleaning on October 5th. There is only one remaining.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
CREWS Station Complete Cleaning in October
A complete cleaning (CTD validation, cleaned all sensors, chains, lines, and spar) at the CREWS Station in La Parguera, Puerto Rico, was done Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 by Wessley Merten. The groundtruth validation sensor was placed at 11:53 and was removed at 15:15pm. All surface and subsurface sensors were visibly intact. All rigging, lines, baseplates, sensors, and the spar were cleaned, but need more attention later this month. There were reports that the groundtruthing sensor was not transmitting or receiving data during the last complete clean. Therefore, prior to plugging the sensor I examined the interface and didn't see a source for a loose/bad connection. In addition, I inspected the cable that the sensor connects to and besides the significant biofouling that was removed I did not discover any damage.
The next cleaning will be performed within two weeks.
The next cleaning will be performed within two weeks.
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