2024 R/V Thompson Transit
Float deployments on the R/V Thompson transit from Honolulu, Hawaiʻi to Apra Harbor, Guam.
Chief Scientist: Deborah West-Mack, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Ship: R/V Thomas G Thompson
Dates: September 30 – October 11, 2024
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi to Apra Harbor, Guam
Map showing the R/V Thompson transit track.
R/V Thompson Transit Expedition Logs
Final floats
We successfully deploy the last four Argo floats and come into port in GuamWe have reached the end of our journey across the Pacific! In the past few days, the Thompson crew and I have deployed four more Argo floats (two core floats and two BGC floats), and docked at...
Halfway there!
Argo float deployments continue! And we skip Monday.Since I last wrote, the Thompson crew and I have deployed three more Argo floats, two BGC floats and one core float. That brings us to just past halfway through the journey! Every single deployment so far has, by...
First two BGC floats
We deploy the first two biogeochemical Argo floats of the trip, and I try my hand at seawater samplingI’m delighted to report that two new BGC Argo floats have been sent off on their watery adventures! Our BGC floats are shipped in sturdy wooden crates. To deploy...
First core float
We deploy our first Argo float of the cruise, all goes smoothly!Last night we deployed our first Argo float of the trip, a core float that measures the basic physical properties necessary to understand the ocean state: temperature, salinity, and pressure. Liz, one the...
Heading Out
Our intrepid float deployer Cora arrives solo in Honolulu to board the R/V ThompsonHello Argo enthusiasts! My name is Cora Hersh, and I’m a graduate student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MIT/WHOI) Joint Program. I’m...