International
Arctic Buoy Program

LTJG Brasher and RCAF Loadmaster Cpl deploy AXIB in the high arctic in 2018.

2018 - 2020 Deployment Plans

March 2019: 3 Ice Trackers, 1 Sidekick (webcam), and 1 Ice Pelican (barometer, SST) by the Arctic Submarine Laboratory.

March 2019: 3 new Scalable Polar Ice Trackers (SPIT) developed by the USIABP, and 1 ECCC Ice Ball on fast ice north of Tuktoyaktuk and Pelly Island, Canada with the support of Canadian Forces. We had also planned to deploy 2 more SVP-Bs and 1 IMB on the drift ice using RCAF Twin Otters, but the sea ice in range of Inuvik, Canada was too thin to land on.

April 2019: 3 SVP-Bs, 2 SPITs on Fast Ice north of Utqiagvik, Alaska. We will also be deploying 2 prototype Ice Mass Balance buoys developed by Cy Keener at the University of Maryland in collaboration with the USIABP.

April 2019: 2 SVP-Bs, and 2 SPITs on Fast Ice north of Utqiaƒ°vik, Alaska. We deployed 2 prototype Ice Mass Balance buoys developed by Cy Keener at the University of Maryland in collaboration with the USIABP.

June 2019: 3 AXIB, 9 ECCC SVP-Bs using RDAF C-130 coordinated by USIABP as part of ICE-PPR.

Summer 2019: 2 DAMPs developed by USIABP, and 20 SVP-Bs using CGC Healy and other ships; 10 SVP-Bs w/ drogues in the Bering Sea during transits, and 10 SVP-B w/o drogues and 3 DAMPs in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas during science cruises.

Summer 2019: CRREL Ice Mass Balance (IMB) buoys.

Summer 2019: WHOI Ice Tethered Platforms (ITP) buoys

Summer 2019: PSC/UW Upper Layer Temperature of the Ocean (UpTempO) buoys

September or October 2019: 3 AXIBs, 3 Ice Trackers, 1 ICEXAIR using USCG C-130.

Summer 2019: 27 SVP-B using Russian Ice Breakers in the Eurasian sector.

September 2019 – September 2020: https://www.mosaic-expedition.org (MOSAiC) 200+ buoys in transpolar drift stream.

d by Bryan Brasher on 06July2020. brbrasher@mail.fhsu.edu This website is not affiliated with the International Arctic Buoy Program and is created in honor of its work rather than on its behalf.