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28 meter mooring
Buoy deployed at 10:18 EST
        latitude: 40° 13´ 567
        longitude: 73° 52´ 358
Weight deployed at 11:15 EST
        latitude: 40° 13´ 511
        longitude:73° 52´ 382
Tripod Deployed at 11:25 EST
        latitude: 40° 13´ 578
        longitude: 73° 52´ 375

15 meter mooring
Buoy deployed at 13:13 EST
        latitude: 40° 14´ 670
        longitude: 73° 58´ 642
Tripod 1 deployed at 13:35 EST
        latitude: 40° 14´ 633
        longitude: 73° 58´ 668
Tripod 2 deployed at 14:30 EST
        latitude: 40° 14´ 633
        longitude: 73° 58´ 659

LaTTE Boat Schedules   R/V Cape Hatteras | R/V Connecticut

R/V CAPE HATTERAS

Thursday 4/29  

Cape Hatteras  arrive sometime in the afternoon. Exact time of arrival will depends on when they leave Norfolk VA.  

Begin Loading Boat.  

Friday 4/30 .

Finish loading boat and set up. IF all goes well we may test equipment in Harbor.  

Saturday 5/1.  

AM Run transect up Hudson River to head of salt.   There might be a few day trippers on this survey-- including the press.

Afternoon return to Staten island, drop off day trippers and pick up rest of scientific crew and
head out to sea and begin survey of the plume. I anticipate running 6-8 cross-shelf  across the plume survey (~15-20 km each). This survey should take approximately 12 hours to complete and leave us about  30 miles south of the injection location. Ideally we  would  finish these transects in the early morning hours of 5/2 and steam north to the injection site.  If all is going well I would hope that we would
be able to begin our watch schedule during the survey.

Sunday 5/2  

6am arrive at approximate injection site and run cross-shelf section to determine center of plume-- then head back to the center of plume and inject dye near the surface (7-8 am)

We then follow the dye for as long as we can detect it. We anticipate being able to do this until Thursday/Friday.  If we lose the signal on Thursday- I'd suggest we do one more large-scale survey of the plume and head back to Staten Island Friday. If we're still on dye Friday-- we'll have to let it go so that we can get back to the dock Friday afternoon to give everyone time to unload in time for the Cape Hatteras departure on Sunday AM 5/9.

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R/V CONNECTICUT

Wed 28-Apr
Jessica & Shelley arrive to Groton.

Thurs 29-Apr        
Equipment brought up from Rutgers. Begin set up on ship of Rutgers and Cal Poly gear.
Coordinate Communications Set-up for Cruise.

Fri 30-Apr 
Continue with set-up.
Tom, Oscar & Tom's students drive up from Rutgers, Mark drives down from Maine. 

Sat 1-May 
Prepare ship and equipment during day (set up rad van). Ship departs in the PM (~1800)

Sun 2-May 
Cruise (Dye likely released this day. Start operations offshore, moving into the plume)

Mon 3-May 
Cruise

Tue 4-May 
Cruise

Wed 5-May 
Cruise

Thurs 6-May 
Cruise (R/V Hatteras likely finishing in the PM)

Fri 7-May 
Depart in the morning and return to Groton around 1400 

Sat 8-May
Finish unloading/packing
Mark, Jessica and others leave in the AM.