An Old Salt Retires

• Published in: Oceanography
• Main Author: Raymond Schmitt
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Oceanography Society 2015
• Subjects: R/V Knorr; Woods Hole; Emerson Hiller; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Emerson; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2015.20; https://doaj.org/article/d899ecad89014da1a77f22022521cd6c

In September and October 2012, R/V Knorr operated in the North Atlantic to deploy autonomous platforms that would collect measurements over the following year for the first phase of the Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study (SPURS-1). When the ship was retired in late 2014, after 44 y...