California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations

• Departs San Diego on SIO R/V New Horizon 0800 14 Aug  2008.
• Returns to San Diego  30 Aug 2008.  
• Station plan: 66 standard CalCOFI and 9 SCCOOS stations are scheduled.
• Number of participants: 17 scientists, technicians & volunteers.
• Proposed station work:
  • 500m Seabird CTD/24 10L bottle rosette cast (depth permitting)

    CTD  Sensors	Bottle Samples
    Temperature Conductivity Oxygen Fluorescence Transmissometer PAR NO3 - ISUS SCCOOS Bio-optical package	Salinity Oxygen Nutrients Primary Productivity Chlorophyll-a Phaeopigments HPLC DIC LTER ancillary samples

  • 100m Pairovet vertical net tow (coastal stations only - out to sta 70)
  • 210m Bongo net  tow - all stations
  • MANTA neuston net tow - all stations
  • PRPOOS vertical net tow - Lines 80, 90, coastal stas on lines 86.7, 83.3,
    
  • ADCP - Dr. Teresa K. Chereskin 
  • SCIMS - underway continuous surface and meterological measurements
    
  • Daily primary productivity C14-uptake incubation experiments.
  • Bird & marine mammal observations
  • Ancillary LTER water samples - size fractionations, slides
  • DIC - dissolved inorganic carbon; multiple depths and stations
  • Mirada Project Microbial Inventory sampling
  • Naval Oceanographic Office CTD data submissions
    

Contact Dave Wolgast  (Chief Scientist), IOD;  James  Wilkinson, IOD; 
  Dave Griffith NMFS for additional information or request for  participation.  
  Please check the New Horizon  Scheduling Website for EXACT cruise dates.