Photo: Steve Lambert, WHOI
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 summer 2011, the ITP shown at left and its companion became the first ITPs to return daily information on the vertical structure of under-ice phytoplankton in the Arctic Ocean.
Led by WHOI biologist Sam Laney and first deployed in summer 2011, the ITP shown at left and its companion became the first ITPs to return daily information on the vertical structure of under-ice phytoplankton in the Arctic Ocean.
