Characterization of the Hatteras Front using Shelf Glider Deployments during PEACH Project (2024)

Undergraduate: Victor Hieu Nguyen

Faculty Advisor: Harvey Seim
Department: Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences

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The Processes driving Exchange At Cape Hatteras (PEACH) Project sought to explore seawater exchanges between the continental shelf and open ocean near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. This region contains cool, fresh water from the Mid- Atlantic Bight (MAB) north of Cape Hatteras, and warm, salty South-Atlantic Bight (SAB) waters that both converge towards each other. Additionally, the region is influenced by the Gulf Stream and Slope Sea Gyre. From 2017 to 2018, Ramses, a Slocum G1 Glider developed by Teledyne Webb Research, was deployed as a component of the PEACH project a total of seven times north and south of Diamond Shoals before it became lost at sea on its seventh deployment. The methods and results collected from Deployment 6 are observed_x000D_
and described, with a focus on analyzing water mixing between SAB and MAB waters in the Cape Hatteras region.