Summary:

CalCOFI 1601RL successfully completed all 104 scheduled stations, 95 standard & 9 SCCOOS. NOAA RV Reuben Lasker sailed Jan 6th, performing an acoustic calibration in San Diego Bay anchorage off Shelter Island. High winds and stormy weather Jan 6th postponed departure out of San Diego Bay until daybreak Jan 7th. The station order was standard south-north, west-east-west. After 74 southern stations were completed at 76.7 49.0, the CTD-rosette seawater sampling reduced from 24 to 12 bottles. After sta 70.0 51.0, most of the SIO scientific personnel disembarked in Monterey. The Pt Dume SCCOOS station at 85.4 35.8 was occupied last, during the transit home as sta 104.
Platform: NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker; Project #: RL-16-01 (OMAO), 1601RL (SWFSC); Project Title: Winter CalCOFI, FRD

Data Files & Links: 1601RL CTD raw cast files zipped; 1601 FinalQC CTD + bottle data ; Preliminary Contour Plots
Announcement: CalCOFI 1601RL Cruise Instructions
Cruise Dates: Wednesday, 06 Jan 2016 - Saturday, 30 Jan 2016
Loading: Monday, 04 Jan 2016 - Tuesday, 05 Jan 2016 ; 10th Ave Marine Terminal, San Diego, CA
Offloading: 01 Feb 2016; 10th Ave Marine Terminal, San Diego, CA
Partiicpant Forms: NOAA Medical Forms - required for all cruise participants sailing Jan 06 2016
Ship: RV Reuben Lasker
Station plan: 104 Stations (95 CalCOFI + 9 SCCOOS)
Cruise Map:
   
Contacts: Dave Grifftith, Chief Scientist, NMFS
  James R Wilkinson, IOD (SIO Technical Coordinator)
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
  ISUS Nitrate DIC
  Altimeter LTER ancillary
    NCOG
  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:
  SCS, Underway continuous surface and meterological measurements
  Primary Productivity, Daily C14-uptake incubations
  Ancillary LTER , Plankton abundance, biomass, Chl a size fractionations, POC, DOC
  Fisheries Acoustics
  DIC, new 2014-16 24 station sampling pattern
  Seabirds , Visual Observations
  Cetaceans, Visual and Acoustic Surveys
  NCOG Project, Andrew Allen