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The Buoys Are Back in Town

WHOI’s Gary Cook (foreground) and Kip Eaton from Raytheon Corp. prepare a surface mooring for a year-long deployment in the Argentine Basin in the South Atlantic Ocean. The location is part of the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative, an effort to gather atmospheric and oceanographic data from the surface to the seafloor in key regions of the ocean. The mooring is part of one of four Global Arrays deployed in remote and often challenging locations—the others are in the Southern Ocean southwest of Chile, the Irminger Sea southeast of Greenland, and at Station Papa in the North Pacific. (Photo courtesy of Sheri White, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)