Tetiaroa Society Ecostation

13 Jul, 01 PM - 23 Jul, 01 PM

This will primarily be a scoping trip to prepare for our planning research on Tetiaora starting in Jan/Feb 2017. We plan is to: For this scoping trip, ideally we would make progress on the following: 1) visit back reef sites around the island and identify locations for oceanographic sensors 2) visit fore reef sites (at 15-m depth) around the island and identify locations for oceanographic sensors. 3) identify a site to place a meteorological station (wind speed/direction, air temp, humidity, net radiation over the water) 4) conduct some single beam bathymetry surveys of the deep lagoon that our current satellite-derived bathymetry of Tetiaroa does not cover. I would bring a system we put together for similar surveys around Moorea that can readily be clamped to the transom of a small boat 5) In Jan/Feb 2017 we would plan on bringing over oceanographic instruments, as well as tripods, a set of thirty 10 kg lead bricks, mooring plates, etc. The tripods, lead bricks, and mooring plates, etc. will arrive in the LTER shipping container in the next couple weeks, so ideally we would bring over some these things on this trip, and then have less to bring over in Jan/Feb. This would imply storing things somewhere on Tetiaroa between now and Jan/Feb 2017 (none require climate control).

Visit #46649 @Tetiaroa Society Ecostation

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Under Project # 33564 | Research

Into uncharted waters: understanding and predicting water movement and fluxes over coral reef atolls of the future

faculty - Duke University

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James Hench Jul 13 - 23, 2016 (11 days)
Melissa Duvall Jul 13 - 23, 2016 (11 days)
Pacifica Takata-Glushkoff Jul 13 - 23, 2016 (11 days)
Patrick Combe Jul 13 - 23, 2016 (11 days)
Walter Torres Jul 13 - 23, 2016 (11 days)

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Ecostation Rate 5 Jul 13 - 23, 2016