Cruise Dates: Friday, 8 April 2011
  Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Ship: NOAA RV Bell M Shimada
Station plan: 75 Standard (66 CalCOFI + 9 SCCOOS)
Cruise Map:
Contacts: Dave Griffith, NMFS (Chief Scientist)
  Dave Wolgast, IOD (Technical Coordinator)
  James Wilkinson, IOD (Technical Coordinator)
Participants: Griffith, Dave (Chief Scientist) Fishery Biologist, NMFS
  TBD  
Proposed station work: Seabird CTD / 24 bottle rosette cast (500m depth permitting)
  CTD Sensors: Bottle Samples:
  Temperature Salinity
  Conductivity Oxygen
  Oxygen Nutrients
  Fluorescence Primary Productivity
  Transmissomter Chlorophyll-a
  PAR Phaeopigments
  pH HPLC
    DIC
    LTER ancillary
  Nets:
  CalBOBL(Bongo) net, 210m - all stations
  MANTA neuston net, all stations
  PRPOOS vertical net, lines 80 & 90, 86.7 & 83.3 coastal only
  Pairovet vertical net, 100m (coastal stations only ( to 70)
  Supplementary Data:
  ADCP, Dr. Teresa K. Chereskin
  MET, Underway continuous surface and meterological measurements
  Primary Productivity, Daily C14-uptake incubations
  Ancillary LTER , Plankton abundance, biomass, Chl a size fractionations, POC
  Acoustics, Dr Tony Koslow
  DIC, 10 stations: 93.3-30, 90-90, 90-60, 90-45, 90-30, 86.7-35, 81.8-46.9, 80-55, 80-80, 80-90
  Drifter deployments, 13 drifters deployed on 7 stations: 86.7- 40,45,50,55; 83.3-60,55,51
  Seabirds , Visual Observations
  Cetaceans, Visual and Acoustic Surveys