The Pioneer Upstream Offshore Profiler Mooring is located on the Continental Slope (approximately 450 m deep), east (i.e., upstream) of the other Moorings.  The Continental Shelf-Slope area off the New England coast is a highly productive area and one that is located at a dynamic intersection where ocean currents meet in weather-like “fronts,” and where nutrients, pollutants, and other properties are exchanged between the coast and the deep ocean. Data from the offshore slope area help to examine exchanges between the shelf and slope and the shelf ecosystem, as well as provide broader insight into the issues of air-sea gas exchange, including Carbon Dioxide.

Like other Coastal Profiler Moorings, the Pioneer Upstream Offshore Profiler Mooring contains a Wire-Following Profiler that houses instruments.  The Wire-Following Profiler moves through the water column along the mooring riser, continuously sampling ocean characteristics over a specified depth interval.

Instruments

This site includes following instruments. To learn more about an instrument type, select its name on the left. To see the relevant data streams for a particular instrument, select the instrument code in the first column which will take you to the OOI Data Portal.

Instrument Depth Node Instrument
Class-Series
Make & Model
CP02PMUO-SBS01-01-MOPAK0000 0m Surface Buoy 3-Axis Motion Pack (MOPAK0) MicroStrain - 3DM-GX3-25
CP02PMUO-SBS01-00-STCENG000 0m Surface Buoy Platform Controller (STCENG) WHOI - Sensor and Telemetry Controller
CP02PMUO-WFP01-01-VEL3DK000 15 to 425 meters Wire-Following Profiler 3-D Single Point Velocity Meter (VEL3DK) Nortek - Aquadopp II
CP02PMUO-WFP01-04-FLORTK000 15 to 425 meters Wire-Following Profiler 3-Wavelength Fluorometer (FLORTK) WET Labs - ECO Triplet
CP02PMUO-WFP01-03-CTDPFK000 15 to 425 meters Wire-Following Profiler CTD (CTDPFK) Sea-Bird - SBE 52MP
CP02PMUO-WFP01-02-DOFSTK000 15 to 425 meters Wire-Following Profiler Dissolved Oxygen (DOFSTK) Sea-Bird - SBE 43F
CP02PMUO-WFP01-05-PARADK000 15 to 425 meters Wire-Following Profiler Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PARADK) Biospherical Instruments - QSP-2200
CP02PMUO-WFP01-00-WFPENG000 15 to 425 meters Wire-Following Profiler Profiler Controller (WFPENG) McLane - MMP
CP02PMUO-RII01-02-ADCPSL010 15 to 425 meters Mooring Riser Velocity Profiler (75 kHz) (ADCPSL) Teledyne RDI - WorkHorse LongRanger Sentinel 75khz - inductive