{"id":32398,"date":"2020-07-01T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/?p=32398"},"modified":"2020-07-01T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T16:47:07","slug":"breaking-down-the-research-magic-being-captured-by-dukes-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/breaking-down-the-research-magic-being-captured-by-dukes-wizard.htm","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down the Research Magic Being Captured by Duke\u2019s WIzARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The start of Duke University\u2019s oceanographic mooring line doesn\u2019t begin at the surface of the ocean, but 500 meters beneath it. Floating at the top of the mooring system is a 64-inch syntactic sphere with 2,500 Lbs of buoyancy. It serves a duo of roles as both a floatation device and housing for two high-end acoustic monitoring systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next comes 75 meters of chains and wires before coming to two ocean current profilers, one pointing up and the other pointing down. Next to that equipment are two instruments that measure temperature and salinity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next comes several hundred more meters of wire before arriving at several glass balls, more floatation orbs. Finally, right before the anchor tying it all to the ground, are two acoustic releases waiting to let all of it float back to the surface.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This 500-meter ocean monitoring behemoth is the Wideband WoMBAT Integrated Autonomous mooRing for Deep water, or the WIzARD, for short. This $400,000 piece of equipment may not be the most expensive to be deployed for ocean monitoring, but it was placed in one of the ocean\u2019s most active places.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32397\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32397\" class=\" wp-image-32397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/WIzARD_diagram.jpg\" alt=\"WIzARD mooring\" width=\"337\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/WIzARD_diagram.jpg 573w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/WIzARD_diagram-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A graphic design of complete WIzARD system, from the syntactic sphere floating 500 meters below the surface, to the anchor on the ocean floor. (Credit: Nicholas School of the Environment at The Duke University Marine Lab)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOff Cape Hatteras is a place I like to call the Serengeti of the Atlantic,\u201d said <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/nowacek\/?_ga=2.230511124.943720246.1593605884-1033925534.1593605884\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doug Nowacek<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a professor of conservation technology in environment and engineering at Duke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A place where a cold water current flowing from the coast of Labrador, near Newfoundland, Canada, carrying a bounty of nutrients, collides with the warm-water Gulf Stream born out of the tip of Florida. There, miles off the coast of North Carolina, warm water from the south carries nutrients brought from the north to the surface, where photosynthesis ushers in a level of productivity seldom seen anywhere else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s just teeming with life,\u201d Nowacek said. \u201cThis place has the highest density and diversity of cetaceans in the Northwest Atlantic and probably the entire Atlantic Ocean.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s the kind of productivity that \u201cleads to small things being eaten by bigger things being eaten by bigger things which end up feeding the marine mammals,\u201d Nowacek added. That means bluefin, mahi-mahi, wahoo tuna and hammerhead sharks. Sea turtles nest on the nearby beaches as the National Seashore hosts migrating and wintering birds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was also a region viewed through the lens of research conducted in multi-week timespans. Before Duke\u2019s WIzARD was deployed, there had been a few oceanographic cruises that studied the area. Some ventures focused on the biological presence in the area and some on the physical conditions surrounding its flourishing life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nicholas.duke.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Duke University\u2019s Nicholas School of the Environment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &amp; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pratt.duke.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pratt School of Engineering<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had done some work looking at whales and dolphins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur work\u2019s been mostly focused on pilot whales and what their dive behavior is,\u201d Nowacek said. \u201cWe\u2019d put a tag on one, and they\u2019d dive down 800 meters, you hear them click away, buzzing, but we have no idea what they\u2019re making that attempt on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But with the WIzARD, researchers now have the capability of not taking a spatial assessment of the region, but a temporal one spanning nine months, rather than two-three week intervals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And they also have the capability of not just assessing the biological presence surrounding the entire 900 meters of their chosen water column, but the physical factors as well. The data collection starts at the top, where the syntactic sphere is floated by 2,500 pounds of buoyancy retained in an interior foam.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32393\" style=\"width: 559px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32393\" class=\" wp-image-32393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-3-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"WIzARD mooring\" width=\"549\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-3-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-3.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The large syntactic sphere that is the top of the mooring, supplying an enormous amount of buoyancy to keep the mooring deployed correctly. The sphere is also where the WBATs are deployed. (Credit: Zach Swaim, Duke University Marine Lab, Nicholas School)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attached on the exterior of the sphere are two acoustic recording centers called Wideband Autonomous Transceiver &#8211; or WoMBAT. Each with a capability of sending out sound pulses 400 meters in a cone-shaped beam from the transducers, both have been strategically placed at the middle depth of the water column in order to cover as much of it as it can.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c(It\u2019s) a high end acoustic system that gives us target strengths of things in the water column at that frequency, which is about 75 kHz. And they sit there and they ping once a minute. And they use those pings and the returns from those pings to tell us what\u2019s in the water,\u201d said Nowacek.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The information returned from those pings comes in the form of acoustic data stored in \u201cthe brains\u201d of the syntactic sphere, which sits inside pressure-housing built to withstand the weight of the water above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luckily, enough research on different species in the water has rendered some useful data for the mooring system to take advantage of. Scientists have looked at the acoustic signatures of different fish and crustaceans and can do a pretty good job identifying one based on the kind of response they get.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe don\u2019t know exactly, but we know it\u2019s not a whale, know it\u2019s not a turtle &#8211; it\u2019s some kind of class of fish,\u201d said Nowacek.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At 525 meters below sea level, the other half of Duke\u2019s mooring\u2019s capability kicks in. Two acoustic doppler current profilers (ADCP) shoot out four beams from each device with acoustic pings. These instruments apply the Doppler shift principle to measure the direction and magnitude of the current based on the returned acoustic signals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32394\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32394\" class=\" wp-image-32394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-4-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"WIzARD mooring\" width=\"436\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-4-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-4-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-4.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The two Long Range ADCP units, shown here in their deployment cages. The red discs are the transducer heads, and the ADCPs measure the direction and velocity of water currents with short acoustic pings being transmitted and received by the four transducers. (Credit: Zach Swaim, Duke University Marine Lab, Nicholas School)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Labeling it a \u201chuge advance\u201d for those looking to measure the oceans, the ADCP can measure water speed in 10-meter intervals. <span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fondriest.com%2Fnews%2F%3Fp%3D32398&#038;text=The%20dynamic%20of%20water%20speed%20and%20direction%20in%20Nowacek%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%9CSerengeti%E2%80%9D%20is%20key%20to%20explaining%20the%20role%20it%20plays%20in%20fostering%20productivity%20in%20the%20area.&#038;via=FondriestEnv&#038;related=FondriestEnv' target='_blank'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The dynamic of water speed and direction in Nowacek\u2019s \u201cSerengeti\u201d is key to explaining the role it plays in fostering productivity in the area. <\/a><\/span><a href='https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fondriest.com%2Fnews%2F%3Fp%3D32398&#038;text=The%20dynamic%20of%20water%20speed%20and%20direction%20in%20Nowacek%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%9CSerengeti%E2%80%9D%20is%20key%20to%20explaining%20the%20role%20it%20plays%20in%20fostering%20productivity%20in%20the%20area.&#038;via=FondriestEnv&#038;related=FondriestEnv' target='_blank' class='bctt-ctt-btn'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cUnderstanding how the water moves is a very important part of that. What is it about this area that lends itself to this amazing mixing and production?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the data collection bonanza doesn\u2019t stop at meter 525 for; attached to each ADCP is a MicroCAT that can sample the conductivity, temperature and depth (CTD) of an area. Measuring the abundance of salt ions within one location, the MicroCAT can help input basic data that scientists use to describe water masses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBy taking the temperature of the water and the salinity, you can learn about what the water mass is and where it came from,\u201d Nowacek said. \u201cSo the CTD measurements are incredibly instructive and illustrative about what water mass you\u2019re dealing with.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beyond the rest of the wiring is one final piece of hardware operating via acoustics. Following the rule of two, ORE acoustic releases lay just above the mooring\u2019s anchor, waiting for a coded signal from a researcher most likely looking to send a command akin to \u201clet go.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32395\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32395\" class=\"size-large wp-image-32395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-1-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"WIzARD mooring\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EM_WIzARD_photo-1.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The mooring anchor, the last piece to be deployed, is set to go overboard. (Credit: Zach Swaim, Duke University Marine Lab, Nicholas School)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A second one is included as a failsafe if the first one fails to release upon command. Once the mooring is unshackled, it floats to the top and is collected at the surface about eight minutes later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Duke University\u2019s versatile system first saw action in 2016 when it was deployed. Researchers collected it in 2018, where a variety of student research groups at Savannah State University have been studying its findings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While its anchor will be donated to the ocean bed after its release, built to become the foundation for a new reef, the rest of the mooring line will be reused for future forays into the Mid-Atlantic region.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Duke University have deployed a 500-foot mooring line capable of collecting an array of biological and environmental data in the 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