2018 - 2020 Deployment Plans
March 2019: 3 Ice Trackers, 1 Sidekick (webcam), and 1 Ice Pelican (barometer, SST) by the Arctic Submarine Laboratory.
March 2019: 3 new Scalable Polar Ice Trackers (SPIT) developed by the USIABP, and 1 ECCC Ice Ball on fast ice north of Tuktoyaktuk and Pelly Island, Canada with the support of Canadian Forces. We had also planned to deploy 2 more SVP-Bs and 1 IMB on the drift ice using RCAF Twin Otters, but the sea ice in range of Inuvik, Canada was too thin to land on.
April 2019: 3 SVP-Bs, 2 SPITs on Fast Ice north of Utqiagvik, Alaska. We will also be deploying 2 prototype Ice Mass Balance buoys developed by Cy Keener at the University of Maryland in collaboration with the USIABP.
April 2019: 2 SVP-Bs, and 2 SPITs on Fast Ice north of Utqiaƒ°vik, Alaska. We deployed 2 prototype Ice Mass Balance buoys developed by Cy Keener at the University of Maryland in collaboration with the USIABP.
June 2019: 3 AXIB, 9 ECCC SVP-Bs using RDAF C-130 coordinated by USIABP as part of ICE-PPR.
Summer 2019: 2 DAMPs developed by USIABP, and 20 SVP-Bs using CGC Healy and other ships; 10 SVP-Bs w/ drogues in the Bering Sea during transits, and 10 SVP-B w/o drogues and 3 DAMPs in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas during science cruises.
Summer 2019: CRREL Ice Mass Balance (IMB) buoys.
- MOSAiC - 5
- Beaufort Gyre – 1
- Barrow – 1
- Others – 3
Summer 2019: WHOI Ice Tethered Platforms (ITP) buoys
- Svalbard - CAATEX East, 1 system
- Healy - CAATEX West/SODA, 3 systems
- Louis St.L - BGOS, 3 systems
- Federov (Mosaic installation), 3 systems (this includes one "owned" by AWI)
Summer 2019: PSC/UW Upper Layer Temperature of the Ocean (UpTempO) buoys
- USCG C-130 – 3
- MOSAiC – 2
September or October 2019: 3 AXIBs, 3 Ice Trackers, 1 ICEXAIR using USCG C-130.
Summer 2019: 27 SVP-B using Russian Ice Breakers in the Eurasian sector.
September 2019 – September 2020: https://www.mosaic-expedition.org (MOSAiC) 200+ buoys in transpolar drift stream.