Announcement: CalCOFI 1601RL Cruise Instructions
Cruise Dates: 06 Jan 2016 - 30 Jan 2016
Loading: 04 - 05 Jan 2016; 10th Ave Marine Terminal, San Diego, CA
Offloading: 2 Feb 2016; 10th Ave Marine Terminal, San Diego, CA
Partiicpant Forms: NOAA Medical Forms - required for all cruise participants sailing Jan 05 2017
Ship: RV Reuben Lasker
Station plan: 113 Stations (104 CalCOFI + 9 SCCOOS)
Cruise Map:
   
Contacts: Dave Griffith, Chief Scientist, NMFS
  Amy Hays, NMFS
  Jennifer Rodgers-Wolgast, 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 NCOG DNA/RNA
    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:
  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
  APEX Drifter Deployments, NAVOCEANO
  Drifter Deployments, Global Drifter Program