The Pioneer MAB Western Shallow Water Mooring is located on the Continental Shelf, approximately 25 meters deep. The MAB continental shelf north of Cape Hatteras is characterized by a persistent equator-ward current originating from the north, a shelfbreak front separating shelf and slope waters, distributed buoyancy inputs from rivers, variable wind forcing, and intermittent offshore forcing by Gulf Stream meanders. The Pioneer MAB Array is designed to resolve transport processes and ecosystem dynamics in the vicinity of the shelfbreak front, which is a region of complex oceanographic dynamics, intermittent mesoscale variability, and enhanced biological productivity.

Like other moorings, the Pioneer MAB Western Shallow Water Mooring is specifically designed to examine coastal-scale phenomena and withstand the challenging conditions of shallow coastal environments. The Shallow Water Mooring contains instruments attached to a Surface Buoy floating on the sea surface, the wave-powered Wire Following Profiler (Prawler), and a Multi-Function Node (MFN) located on the seafloor. The Prawler and  the MFN instruments communicate with the Surface Buoy through the inductive riser wire. Additionally, the Surface Buoy contains antennas to transmit data to shore via satellite.

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
CP12WESW-SBS01-03-ADCPUP000 1m Surface Buoy "Velocity Profiler *May be replaced by single-point current meter (VELPT) on occasion" (ADCPU) Nortek - Aquadopp Profiler S1VP
CP12WESW-WFP01-03-FLORTP000 2 to 16 meters Wire-Following Profiler 3-wavelength Fluorometer (FLORTK) WET Labs - ECO Triplet
CP12WESW-WFP01-00-WFPENG001 2 to 16 meters Wire-Following Profiler Controller (WFPENG) McLane Research Labs - Prawler
CP12WESW-SBI01-02-CTDMOS011 1m Surface Buoy CTD (CTDMOS) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
CP12WESW-WFP01-01-CTDPFP000 2 to 16 meters Wire-Following Profiler CTD (CTDPFK) Sea-Bird - SBE 52MP
CP12WESW-MFI01-02-CTDMOS031 25m Multi-Function Node CTD (CTDMOS) Sea-Bird - SBE 37IM
CP12WESW-WFP01-02-DOFSTP000 2 to 16 meters Wire-Following Profiler Dissolved Oxygen (DOSTAD) Aanderaa - Optode 4831
CP12WESW-SBS01-05-MOPAK0000 0m Surface Buoy Motion Pack (MOPAK0) Microstrain - 3DM-GX3-25
CP12WESW-SBS01-00-STCENG000 0m Surface Buoy Platform Controller (STCENG) WHOI - Sensor and Telemetry Controller
CP12WESW-MFI01-02-ADCPTQ010 29m Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) Velocity Profiler () Teledyne RDI - Workhorse II Sentinel 600kHz