The Pioneer Central Inshore Profiler Mooring is located at the Continental Shelf-Slope Break approximately 130 meters deep. 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 slope break 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 Central Inshore 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.

This site was suspended on: 11/22/2022.

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
CP02PMCI-SBS01-01-MOPAK0000 0m Surface Buoy 3-Axis Motion Pack (MOPAK0) MicroStrain - 3DM-GX3-25
CP02PMCI-SBS01-00-STCENG000 0m Surface Buoy Platform Controller (STCENG) WHOI - Sensor and Telemetry Controller
CP02PMCI-WFP01-01-VEL3DK000 15 to 104 meters Wire-Following Profiler 3-D Single Point Velocity Meter (VEL3DK) Nortek - Aquadopp II
CP02PMCI-WFP01-04-FLORTK000 15 to 104 meters Wire-Following Profiler 3-Wavelength Fluorometer (FLORTK) WET Labs - ECO Triplet
CP02PMCI-WFP01-03-CTDPFK000 15 to 104 meters Wire-Following Profiler CTD (CTDPFK) Sea-Bird - SBE 52MP
CP02PMCI-WFP01-02-DOFSTK000 15 to 104 meters Wire-Following Profiler Dissolved Oxygen (DOFSTK) Sea-Bird - SBE 43F
CP02PMCI-WFP01-05-PARADK000 15 to 104 meters Wire-Following Profiler Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PARADK) Biospherical Instruments - QSP-2200
CP02PMCI-WFP01-00-WFPENG000 15 to 104 meters Wire-Following Profiler Profiler Controller (WFPENG) McLane - MMP
CP02PMCI-RII01-02-ADCPTG010 15 to 104 meters Mooring Riser Velocity Profiler (150kHz) (ADCPTG) Teledyne RDI - WorkHorse Sentinel150khz - inductive