To see this year's results, see links in tables below.
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To see results from last year, click here.
To see last year's flash animations click here.
To see last year's statistics click here.
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| Institution (data) | Deployer (cruise report) | Date
Deployed (animation) | Dropsite (observed track) | Code | Science (modeled vectors) | Status (modeled track) | Fate (photo) |
| UMASSD | King/Brown | 27 Jan | off Cape Cod | 1 | transient eddies | done | Gulf Stream and beyond |
| WHOI/NOAA | Moore/Cole | 26 Feb | Georges Bank | 1 | right whales | done | apparently detached from dead right whale after one day |
| Bowdoin | Laine | 9 Apr | Casco Bay | 1-3 | Kennebec discharge | underway | rode coastal current south to Georges Bank |
| NOAA | Kocik | 27 Apr | Penobscot Bay | 1,2 | salmon smolts | underway | rode coastal current south to Georges Bank |
| NOAA | Kocik | 29 May | Penobscot Bay | 1,2 | salmon smolts | done | short lived |
| Bowdoin/StJoe's | Laine/Teegarden | 8 May | Casco Bay | 1,2 | Lombos Hole Circulation | underway | multiple groundings |
| MASS DMF | Glenn | 4 June | off Buzzards Bay | 1-3 | lobster larvae | underway | drogued and surface unit headed SW to New York Waters |
| MASS DMF | Glenn | 16 June | off Buzzards Bay | 4 | lobster larvae | done | surface unit only came ashore on the eastern shore of Newport, RI |
| MASS DMF | Glenn | 24 June | off Buzzards Bay | 5-8 | lobster larvae | underway | 1 drogued amd 3 surface units stalled for a week and then headed west to RI |
| UNH/CMB | Goldstein/Watson | 9 June | Great Bay (NH) | 1 | lobster larvae | done | grounded after one tide |
| UNH/CMB | Goldstein/Watson | 22 June | Great Bay (NH) | 2 | lobster larvae | done | grounded after one tide |
| UNH/CMB | Goldstein/Watson | 24 June | Great Bay (NH) | 3 | lobster larvae | done | grounded,refloated, grounded |
| UNH/CMB | Goldstein/Watson | 1 July | Great Bay (NH) | 1 | lobster larvae | done | grounded |
| UNH/CMB | Goldstein/Watson | 17 June | off NH | 1 | lobster larvae | done | headed north, turned around, and grounded near Gloucester |
| RI-DEM | Angell | 15 June | Block Island Sound | 1-4 | lobster larvae | done | ashore at Matunuck RI a week later |
| RI-DEM | Angell | 7 July | Block Island Sound | 1-4 | lobster larvae | planned | |
| OSU | Shearman | 20 July | Mass Bay | 1-8 | internal waves | planned | |
| UNE | Tilberg | July | Downeast Maine | 1-5 | educational | planned | |
| UNH/NASA | Salisbury | Sep-Oct | Casco Bay | 1,2 | clam acidification | planned | |
| UMASSD | McDonald | Oct | Mouth of Merrimack | 1-20 | plume dynamics | planned |
| Launch
Location |
Date Deployed | Deployer
(observed track) |
ID#
(Speed) |
Drogue Depth(m) | Color (temperature) | Fate (FVCOM forecast) |
| Off Cape Cod | 27 Jan 2009 | UMASSD | 91191 | 1 | r | Nantucket Shoals, GSC, and Gulf Stream |
| Georges Bank | 26 Feb 2009 | WHOI/NOAA | 92181 | 1 | r | Dead Right Whale Drifter but detached after one day |
| Casco Bay | 9 April 2009 | Bowdoin | 94391 | 0.5 | r | underway |
| Bowdoin | 94392 | 0.5 | g | underway | ||
| Bowdoin | 94303 | 1 | b | underway | ||
| 8 May 2009 | Bowdoin | 95391 | 1 | c | grounded multiple times | |
| Bowdoin | 95392 | 1 | b | grounded multiple times | ||
| Penobscot Bay | 27 April 2009 | NOAA Salmon | 94491 | 1 | m | underway |
| NOAA Salmon | 94492 | 1 | b | grounded on "Crane Island" off the southwest corner of Vinalhaven | ||
| 29 May 2009 | NOAA Salmon | 95491 | 1 | r | grounded | |
| NOAA Salmon | 95492 | 1 | b | grounded | ||
| Great Bay | 9 June 2009 | UNH | 96301 | 1 | b | grounded after one tide |
| 22 June 2009 | UNH | 96302 | 1 | m | grounded after one tide | |
| 24 June 2009 | UNH | 96303 | 1 | m | grounded, refloated, grounded | |
| 1 July 2009 | UNH | 97301 | 1 | m | grounded | |
| Buzzards Bay | 4 June 2009 | MADMF | 96101-A | 1 | pink | underway |
| MADMF | 96102-B | 1 | green | run down or malfunctioned 4 June and recovered in Westerly/Charlestown RI on 1 July by Ron Jarvis | ||
| MADMF | 96103-W | 13 | red | taken by fisherman to Norwich Ct on 19 June | ||
| 16 June 2009 | MADMF | 96104-F | 1 | red | grounded on Newport's Eastern Bay | |
| 24 June 2009 | MADMF | 96105-C | 1 | r | underway | |
| MADMF | 96106-X | 13 | g | underway | ||
| MADMF | 96107-F | 1 | b | underway | ||
| MADMF | 96108-H | 1 | m | infrequent fixes, came ashore on Horseneck Beach 29 June | ||
| Block Island Sound | 15 June 2009 | RI-DEM | 96111-D | 1 | r | evidently run down and then grounded near Galilee RI |
| RI-DEM | 96112-E | 1 | green | grounded on Moonstone Beach | ||
| RI-DEM | 96113-G | 1 | blue | grounded on Moonstone Beach | ||
| RI-DEM | 96114-L | 1 | magenta | grounded on Moonstone Beach | ||
| 7 July 2009 | RI-DEM | 97111-E | 1 | red | PLANNED | |
| RI-DEM | 97112-G | 1 | green | PLANNED | ||
| RI-DEM | 97113-L | 1 | blue | PLANNED | ||
| RI-DEM | 97114-Y | 13 | magenta | PLANNED | ||
| Off NH | 17 June 2009 | UNH | 96201 | 1 | r | headed north, turned around, and cam ashore on Cape Ann |
