| Contact Information |
John Walpert
Geochemical and Environmental Research Group
Texas A&M University
727 Graham Road
College Station, Texas 77845
Phone: 979-862-2323
Fax: 979-862-1347
E-mail: walpert@gerg.tamu.edu
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| Project Description |
Texas
Automated Buoy System (TABS)
Supplied one (1) RD Instruments
600 kHz Workhorse with Bottom Tracking used to collect real time
oceanographic data for the oil spill response community. The TABS
Project also loaned Coastal's Workhorse to the U.S. Navy during the Ehime
Maru recovery.
Complete: June to November 2001
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TABS II buoy equipped with Coastal
Leasing's 600 kHz ADCP being
readied for deployment off of Oahu, Hawaii from USNS SUMNER.
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TABS II buoy at Site N at the Flower
Garden Banks coral reef sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico. The buoy is
equipped with Globalstar satellite telemetry. |
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TABS II buoy at Site X off of Oahu at the
recovery site where the Ehime Maru was temporarily placed for recovery
operations by Navy divers. |
Navy divers cleaning the ADCP transducers
after 3 months of operation. |
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