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:

CTD  Sensors

Bottle Samples

500m Seabird CTD/24 bottle rosette cast (depth permitting)
  • 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.