May 10, 2016
The NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson headed from Dutch Harbor, Alaska into the Bering Sea on May 3-14. Scientists conducted zooplankton and hydrographic sampling including the Unimak grid and the 70-meter isobaths line. Additionally they recovered two moorings that over-wintered, and deployed two moorings at our long-term M2 site (1 surface and 1 subsurface), and one mooring at station M3, along the "Dog Leg Line" near Umnak Island. Additionally drifters were deployed, and a test of the new "Acrobat Towed Vehicle" was successfully conducted during the southward transit following the 70-m line.