Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers hope to get a peek into the dynamics of the ocean's movement underwater. They spent a week collecting data around an underwater canyon near La Jolla.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher Arnaud Le Boyer on the rear deck of the R/V Bob and Betty Beyster on Oct. 9, 2023.The small research vessel Bob and Betty Beyster recently spent a week near the submerged La Jolla Canyon, dragging sensitive marine instruments up and down the ocean’s water column.
She helped build or improve much of the equipment being used to quantify what is happening in the water. The team is looking for traces of dye released a few days earlier near the canyon.“Letting us measure basically how the seafloor here is shaping what the water does when it’s hitting there and how the energy is dissipating or how energy is building up more. Or basically just what the canyon does to the area,” Goheen said.
In addition to the CTD devices, researchers are adding audio snapshots of the water column thanks to an acoustic device strapped to the side of the ship. And for a solid week the vessel spent every day with instruments in the water tracking the dye in the constantly moving ocean water.Sara Goheen, an oceanographic engineer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, on board the research vessel Beyster on Oct. 9, 2023.
Oceanographers think the ocean near La Jolla is so vibrant with life because underwater turbulence brings nutrients from the deeper waters to the warmer surface layer of the ocean. That feeds all manner of plant and animal life.“Simulations like this one have been done for years, but for this one I really like the structures in the dye,” Alford said. “You can see how incredibly complicated the turbulent structures are.
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