Ice Tethered Profiler

Five post-deployment best practices for your instrument

Proper post-deployment equipment maintenance extends the life of your instrument and prepares it for your next cruise. Post-deployment care varies by instrument so refer to the instrument user manual, which can be accessed in our Library.  Some universal best practices include the following: Run the data offload option, confirm that the data was recorded, and
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A Decade of Work for ITPs

For nearly a decade, Ice Tethered Profilers (ITP) have been deployed to observe the physics and biology of the changing Actic environment ranging from ice floes to regional lakes providing observations covering a large region of the Arctic Ocean. More recently, in the summer of 2012, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) scientists took
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ITP Continues Role in Arctic

An ice-tethered profiler (ITP) is shown just before passing through four meters of ice in the Beaufort Sea to study of ocean physics, biology, and chemistry beneath the sea ice. ITPs remain an integral part of the National Science Foundation’s continuing Arctic Observing Network (AON). Led by WHOI biologist Sam Laney and first deployed in
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Profiler Expands from Arctic Ice to Lake Explorations

Ice Tethered Profilers (ITPs) are no longer confined to the Arctic. Designed with shallow ice floes as the deployment target, the ITP is proving that it can meet the sampling challenges of lake environments. The “Lake Moored Profiler” (LMP) has now been deployed in Flathead Lake, Montana and Crater Lake, Oregon. The Crater Lake National Park Service project
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NIWA Probes Antarctic with ITP

The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) is using the ITP to probe ice sheet and ocean conditions in the Antarctic. Scientists are logging a year round data set (the first of its kind) to study ice shelf interaction in McMurdo Sound, a bay off Antarctica that forms the western extension of the
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NIU Gets Hands-On ITP Training

Stefan Vogel, a research associate in the Dept. of Geology and Environmental Geosciences at Northern Illinois University (NIU) visited McLane in July for profiler training. NIU recently purchased an Ice Tethered Profiler integrated with a Teledyne RDI Doppler Velocity Sensor (DVS). NIU will deploy the ITP this Fall in Lake Tahoe. Plans for deployment in
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