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The vessel's longest deployment of the year brought back a mooring record that had been in the water since last summer.
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R/V Cascadia Strait returned to the university dock on 24 July, completing the annual Arctic transit and the longest cruise of her working year.
The primary objective was mooring service. Two instrument moorings deployed in July 2025 were recovered and one was redeployed, giving the physical oceanography group a continuous year-long record from a location that is inaccessible for roughly five months of the year. Both recovered moorings returned complete datasets, which Elena Reyes described as "the outcome you plan for and do not assume."
The cruise carried nine scientists including two doctoral students. James McAllister, who is in the fourth year of a doctorate on cross-shelf exchange, took the opportunity to run repeat sections at the shelf break on the transit north and south.
Weather cost four working days, which is close to the long-term average for the route. One planned coring station was abandoned when sea state made deck work unsafe.
The vessel is now alongside for a maintenance period before the fall teaching schedule begins in September.
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