- Departs San Diego on SIO R/V New Horizon 0800 14 Oct 2008.
- Returns to San Diego 30 Oct 2008.
- Station plan: 66 standard CalCOFI and 9 SCCOOS stations are scheduled.
- Number of participants: 14 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
- Salinity
- Oxygen
- Nutrients: NO3, NO2, PO4, Sil, NH3
- Chlorophyll-a, phaeopigments
- Primary Productivity
- HPLC
- DIC
- LTER ancillary sampling
- 100m Pairovet vertical net tow (coastal stations only - out to sta 70)
- 210m Bongo net tow - all stations
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MANTA neuston net tow - all stations
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PRPOOS vertical net tow - Lines 80, 90, coastal stas on lines 86.7, 83.3,
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ADCP - Dr. Teresa K. Chereskin
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SCIMS - shipboard continuous integrated measurement system; continuous surface and meterological measurements
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Daily primary productivity C14-uptake incubation experiments.
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Bird & marine mammal observations and acoustic recording
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Ancillary LTER water samples - size fractionations, slides
Contact James Wilkinson (Chief Scientist), IOD; Dave Wolgast , IOD;
Dave Griffith NMFS for additional information or request for participation.
Please check the New Horizon Scheduling Website for EXACT cruise dates.
