Deployments

Table

The below table lists all ESD (and formerly AERD) glider deployments, both in-progress and past, along with basic information about the deployment. The table also includes links to post-deployment reports and data files, where they exist.

Users can use the Search box at the top right of the table (you may have to scroll to the right) to filter the table for rows that contain the entered text. For instance, enter “calanus” to filter for all deployments of the glider calanus.

See the Fleet Status sheet (NOAA internal) for other ESD glider fleet and deployment details.

Table Columns

The ‘Glider’, ‘Start’, and ‘End’ columns represent the glider name, glider deployment date (deployment start), and glider recovery date (deployment end), respectively.

The ‘Region’ column indicates the general region of the deployment, for instance the Antarctic or the California Current Ecosystem (CCE).

The ‘Sensors’: column indicates which sensors were on the glider for each deployment. Current sensors that may be deployed on a glider include:

• CTD: Glider Payload Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth
• Ecopuck: ECO Puck flbbcd Fluorometer
• Optode: Oxygen Optode model 4831
• PAR: Photosynthetically Active Radiation model QSP-2155
• AZFP: Acoustic Zooplankton and Fish Profiler (AZFP) scientific echo-sounder for gliders developed by ASL
• Nortek: Signature 100 compact echo-sounder for gliders developed by Nortek
• Shadowgraph: Shadowgraph camera developed by Williamson and Associates. Note that shadowgraphs come in both narrow and wide varieties
• Glidercam: Camera developed by Williamson and Associates
• DMON: Digital acoustic monitoring (DMON) instrument developed by WHOI
• WISPR: WISPR instrument developed by Embedded Ocean Systems. This instrument is paired with a hydrophone by High Tech Inc

The ‘Report’ column contains links to various ESD-internal reports, detailing aspects of the glider prep, deployment, and/or recovery. These reports have been converted to Quarto documents, and are in the process of being published on a public-facing NMFS website. Once they have been published, these links will be updated.

The ‘ERDDAP’ column contains the link to the glider dataset when it is published to the ERDDAP of the IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center. In the future, it will also contain the link to products on an ESD-managed ERDDAP.

The ‘Internal Data’ column contains links to bucket directories in the ESD Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project. Current links include:

• products: All glider-related data products from the ‘base’ glider processing workflow, includingstandard plots.
• aa: The ‘active acoustics’ data in folder. See a description of the structure and contents of this folder here.
• images: The ‘raw imagery’ deployment folder. See a description of the structure and contents of this folder here

See this doc (NOAA internal) for information about downloading full directories from a Google Cloud bucket. You can also browse in the directory, find and select the data product file you want, and click the ‘Authenticated URL’ to download.