The National Underwater Research Program


Tripod Schematics

Data

This is the top part of the tripod, waiting to be put on the tripod stand. These tripods were support frames for a variety of instruments, including CTD sensors, transmissometer, stress sensors.
The top of the tripod still hanging out on the deck of the Rutgers University Marine Field Station.
The 2 LISST, 2 Aquadopp data/communication cables.
Liz Creed, a marine engineer at Rutgers University, assembling the BASS (Benthic Acoustic Stress Sensor) electronics together on top of the tripod.
Liz and Chip Haldeman tightening the guy wires on the BASS sensor pods.
The cables and the tripod are ready for deployment!
Chip in the LEO (Long-term Ecosystem Observatory) room. LEO is run by Rutgers University, and their research seeks to differentiate between natural and anthropogenic changes in our ocean habitats. LEO operates two unmanned seafloor observatories, which provide real-time data to researchers.
A shot of the aquadopp current meter.
The tripod just after it got moved from the dock to the deck of the R.V. Arabella
It's been a long day of hard work!

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
-A.S. Eddington
[The Nature of the Physical World, Cambridge(1929)]

  Boundary Layer Stress And Sediment Transport Laboratory
Department of Geological Sciences
Marine Science Program
University of South Carolina