Cruise Designation: CalCOFI 1511OC; OSU OC1510B
Load Dates: Newport OR: 23 - 24 Oct 2015 (Fri-Sat): Map
Cruise Dates: 25 Oct - 13 Nov 2015 (Sun - Fri)
Offload Date: 13 Nov 2015 (day-of-return; Fri) at 10th Ave Marine Terminal, San Diego CA
Ship: OSU RV Oceanus
Communication: Cellular: 541-207-598; IRIDIUM:  011-881-641-413-524; VHF-FM Channels 13 & 16, call sign WXAQ
Station plan: 75 Standard (66 CalCOFI + 9 SCCOOS); Project Instructions (PDF); please note the alternate station pattern on lines 83 & 80
Deck/Lab plans: Tentative 2-van main deck & lab layouts
Cruise Forms: OSU Cruise Participants Form PDF; Cruise Planning Manual web page
Cruise Map:  
75 Stations
   
Contacts: Dave Wolgast, Chief Scientist, IOD SIO-CalCOFI
  Amy Hays, SWFSC-NOAA Technical Coordinator
  Jennifer Rodgers-Wolgast, IOD SIO-CalCOFI Volunteer 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
  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:
  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
  pCO2 & pH, Dr Todd Martz
  Cetaceans and Avifauna, Visual and Acoustic Surveys
  APEX Drifters, NAVOCEANO