{"id":474,"date":"2016-01-07T15:32:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2016-06-13T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T20:06:11","slug":"count-down-to-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/count-down-to-laser\/","title":{"rendered":"Count down to LASER &#8211; Meet Lead Scientist Eric D&#8217;Asaro (T-8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T &#8211; 8 days. \u00a0The final countdown to the <a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/laser\/\">LAgrangian Submesoscale ExpeRiment<\/a> (LASER) has begun!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-500 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/laser_color_blue_transparent-1024x279.png\" alt=\"laser_color_blue_transparent\" width=\"720\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/laser_color_blue_transparent-1024x279.png 1024w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/laser_color_blue_transparent-300x82.png 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/laser_color_blue_transparent-768x209.png 768w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/laser_color_blue_transparent.png 1943w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This enormous effort\u00a0will be the largest oceanographic experiment of its kind. \u00a0Our mission is to understand the submesoscale (small scale, temporary) ocean currents in the open ocean environment near the DeSoto Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as how oil or other pollutants might be transported via these currents.<\/p>\n<p>Our team has spent several years preparing for\u00a0this experiment and it is now time to execute our elaborate plan.<\/p>\n<p>CARTHE team members from across the world are traveling to Miami today for final planning and testing of equipment, as well as packing and loading the containers and ships, including the principle investigator (PI) for LASER, Dr. Eric D&#8217;Asaro. \u00a0D&#8217;Asaro is a professor at the University of Washington, an author on 93 peer-reviewed publications, the holder of the 2011 Sverdrup Gold Medal from the American Meteorological Society, and\u00a0recently became a member of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I\u2019m excited about LASER, but sobered by the magnitude of what we need to accomplish. \u00a0We worked over the holidays to finalize our experimental plans and get our equipment ready. Now its time to actually do it. \u00a0My equipment shipped on Wednesday from Seattle; \u00a0I\u2019m flying to Miami today (Thursday, Jan 7) to meet with ship operations and with Guillaume Novelli, the chief scientist of the second ship, the Masco 8. \u00a0The two ships will have to work closely together during LASER and the two of us need to sit down together for an extended period to work out the details. \u00a0 The real work starts Wednesday loading the R\/V Walton Smith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MG_0730.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-482\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MG_0730-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"_MG_0730\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MG_0730-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MG_0730-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T &#8211; 8 days. \u00a0The final countdown to the LAgrangian Submesoscale ExpeRiment (LASER) has begun! This enormous effort\u00a0will be the largest oceanographic experiment of its kind. \u00a0Our mission is to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/count-down-to-laser\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,32],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}