Summary: 1504NH Spring CalCOFI cruise on RV New Horizon; 04 - 20 Apr 2015, 70 stations (61 standard & 9 SCCOOS) successfully occupied. Stations 86.7 110, 83.3 110, 83.3 100.0 were cancelled to improve coastal station coverage will remaining shiptime. Stas 86.7 70.0 & 83.3 60.0 were cancelled due to bad weather, station work not possible. A second CTD cast was performed at 76.7 70 to collect Fukushima seawater samples from 0-600m.
Data Files: 1504NH FinalQC Bottle-corrected CTD Files;1504NH CTD (raw) Cast files; 1504NH Preliminary Plots;
(note: cast 65A = Fukushima extra CTD cast);
Cruise Dates: 02 - 18 04 - 20 Apr 2015 (Sat - Mon); 2-day delay to repair autopilot & primary steering
Load Dates: 30 Mar - 01 Apr 2015 (Mon - Wed) in San Diego, location 10th Ave Marine Terminal, San Diego
Offload Date: 21 Apr 2015 (Tue)
Ship: SIO RV New Horizon; (CalCOFI NH Layout)
Station plan: 70 stations occupied (61 CalCOFI + 9 SCCOOS); original 75 Standard (66 CalCOFI + 9 SCCOOS) station plan.
Announcement: NOAA Cruise Announcement PDF
Cruise Forms:  Ship Scheduling User Portal
Cruise Map:  
75 Stations
   
Contacts: Dave Griffith, Chief Scientist, SWFSC-NOAA
  Amy Hays, SWFSC-NOAA Technical Coordinator
  James Wilkinson, SIO-CalCOFI Technical Coordinator
Proposed station work: Seabird CTD / 24 bottle rosette cast (500m depth permitting)
  CTD Sensors: Bottle Samples:
  Temperature (2 x SBE3+) Salinity
  Conductivity (2 x SBE4) Oxygen
  Oxygen (2 x SBE43) Nutrients
  Fluorescence (Seapoint) Primary Productivity
  Transmissomter (Wetlabs 0.25cm) Chlorophyll-a
  PAR (Biospherical) Phaeopigments
  pH (SBE18) HPLC
  ISUS Nitrate DIC & pH
  Altimeter LTER ancillary
    Fukushima Cs-134
    NCOG
  Nets:
  CalBOBL(Bongo) net, 210m - all stations
  MANTA neuston net, surface tow - all stations
  PRPOOS vertical net, lines 80 & 90, 86.7 & 83.3 coastal only
  Pairovet vertical net, 70m (coastal stations out to 70)
   
  Supplementary Data:
  CUFES , fish egg survey; SWFSC
  EK60 Fisheries Acoustics; SIO & SWFSC
  ADCP, Jules (Julia M.) Hummon
  MET, Underway continuous surface and meterological measurements
  Primary Productivity, Daily C14-uptake incubations
  Ancillary LTER , Plankton abundance, biomass, Chl a size fractionations, POC, DOC
  ALF, Advanced Laser Fluorometrics
 

DIC, Dr Andrew Dickson

  pH-pCO2, Dr Todd Martz & Kylee Chang
  Cetaceans and Avifauna, Visual and Acoustic Surveys
  APEX drifters, NAVOCEANO
  GDP Drifters, Global Drifter Program