11 April 2022: Acquisition of an ocean glider
LPCO has just received our ocean glider, an instrument platform that boosts our capability to perform research in the open sea.
Collaboration with HCMR in the framework of the Greek-ARGO network and the project HIMIOFoTS
On November 13th, 2021, Dr Dimitris Kassis and Dionysios Ballas (Institute of Oceanography, HCMR), deployed an ARGO float (identified by WMO # 6903298) in the deep basin south of the coastal town of Vatera. The deployment are was chosen in otder to study the deep-water evolution and the exchanges of the open sea with the Gulfs of Kaloni and Gera.
On the previous day, the above scientists presented to DMS the international project ARGO, as well as the network Greek-ARGO, in which LPCO is a member. In the framework of the presentation, the float ARGO WMO 6903298 was adopted by our Department and named after SAPPHO, thus linked with the island of Lesvos. The track of the float and its data are presented freely in the network and can be accessed at this link.
The purchase and deployment of the ARGO float were funded by the project HIMIOFoTS.
Sappho float news update as of
1-Feb-2022:
The ARGO float Sappho has completed 16 5-day cycles and thankfully its track seems to be consistent with our planning, staying within the deep basin, south of Lesvos being driven by bathymetric steering.
The float almost escaped the deep basin in mid-January (cycles 9-13), but returned at the basin and performed two more cycles there, while now it appears to be in an exit track again.
Of interest is the recording of very cold, dense waters at depths 350+ m, probably recently subducted.
Laboratory of Physical and Chemical Oceanography
Collaborations
The Physical and Chemical Oceanography research group has been collaborating on a permanent basis with the Institute of Oceanography of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research. This collaboration takes place in the framework of the co-ownership and co-management of the Dardanos ΗF radar for monitoring the coastal currents off the east coast of Lemnos island as well as in the framework of a series of research projects (AegeanMarTech, MedEcos, MedEX, PERSEUS, SESAME, ARGO etc.).
Furthermore, we closely collaborate with the Physical Oceanography and Numerical Models group of the Physics Dept. of the National Capodistrian University of Athens, the Laboratory of Marine Engineering and Constructions of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Laboratory of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering of the Technical University of Crete and the Laboratory of Optical Metrology of the University of Western Attica.
Abroad, we have recently collaborated in the framework of research project and cooperation networks with the following organizations: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (Trieste, Italy), Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Ambiente (Universita «Parthenope» (Napoli, Italy), Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR, Italy), Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (University of Toulon, France), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain), Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (CSIC - University of Balearic islands, Spain), University of Lisbon (Portugal), Marine Hydrophysical Institute and Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems (Ukraine), Middle East Technical University (Turkey), Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (Israel), Rosenstiel School of Marine Sciences (University of Miami, Florida, U.S.A.) and Applied Physics Laboratory (University of Washington, U.S.A.)
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| Lucio Bellomo (left) from the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (University of Toulon, France), partner in the STRING project, is preparing one of our new drifter designs for deployment in the Adriatic, aboard an Italian vessel (Nov 24, 2013). | One of the CODE drifters belonging to CNR wearing the new drogue sails designed by the University of the Aegean to simulate an 25 MHz HF radar-derived velocity field, in the framework of the STRING project (24 Nov. 2013). |
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| The R/V AEGAEO, belonging to the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, unloading equipment (drifters) of the University of the Aegean in Myrina, Lemnos (10 April 2008) after a Lagrangian experiment that took place in the North Aegean in the framework of the common project SESAME. | Personnel of the University of the Aegean and the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research cooperating aboard the R/V AEGAEO (7 April 2008). |
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| A fleet of University of the Aegeans drifters aboard the HCMR's R/V PHILIA waiting for deployment in the bay of Sigri (December 2007). | The HCMR's R/V PHILIA in the bay of Sigri during a collaboration project with the Department of Marine Sciences of the University of the Aegean (December 2007). |
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| Alkis Kalambokis (at the time member of the University of the Aegean's Physical and Chemical Oceanography group and still a good friend and partner) presenting two different CODE drifters, the typical one (blue sails) and the University of the Aegeans (red sails), in the context of his participation in an O.G.S. organized cruise in the Gulf of Trieste within the TOSCA project (22 October 2012). |