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0911NM CalCOFI Cruise Prospectus

  • Departs San Diego on SIO R/V New Horizon  0800 6 Nov 2009.
  • Returns to San Diego  23 Nov 2009.  
  • Station plan: 66 standard CalCOFI and 9 SCCOOS stations are scheduled.
  • Number of participants: 18 scientists, technicians & volunteers.
  • Proposed station work:
    • 500m Seabird CTD/24 bottle rosette cast (depth permitting)

      CTD  Sensors

      Bottle Samples

      • Temperature
      • Conductivity
      • Oxygen
      • Fluorescence
      • Transmissometer
      • PAR
      • pH
      • 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 (MET) - underway continuous surface and meterological measurements plus
    • pH: continuous underway surface measurements
    • PCO2: continuous underway surface measurements
    • ALF: Advanced Laser Fluorescence continuous underway surface measurements
    • Daily primary productivity C14-uptake incubation experiments.
    • Bird & marine mammal observations
    • Ancillary LTER water samples - size fractionations, slides
    • Acoustics - Dr Tony Koslow
    • DIC samples: 7 stations: 93.3 30, 86.7 35, 86.7 45, 86.7 60, 86.7 90, 81.8 46.9, 80 55
    • Drifter deployments: 13 drifters deployed on 7 stations: 86.7 40,45,50,55; 83.3 60,55,51

Contact  Jennifer Rodgers-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.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 April 2011 11:15  

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