The situation: a decision has been made that I will travel to Saipan to work with Steven Johnson and David Benavente on the reinstallation of the CREWS station in Lao Lao Bay. Meanwhile, Derek Manzello and Ian Enochs (both of AOML and the University of Miami) have an interest in Lao Lao or other sites in Saipan for a potential deployment of a MApCO2 (Moored Autonomous pCO2) buoy, and wish to conduct some site surveys in the area. A plan is coming together for the three of us to travel to Saipan, possibly in April.
Meanwhile we would like to redeploy with a functional PacIOOS CTD. With Gordon Walker's (PacIOOS, University of Hawai`i) assistance and his FedEx account, I have shipped the PacIOOS CTD back to Honolulu. It was collected from AOML on January 24th and delivered to UH on January 25th.
Gordon will be sending the CTD back to SeaBird for evaluation and repair, in order to have it returned and ready for deployment in April.
Mike J+