Summary:  CalCOFI 1704SH - 28 Mar - 20 Apr 2017, 104 stations occupied; sailed from 10th Ave Marine Terminal at 1600PDT 28 Mar 2017. All scheduled stations were successfully occupied - 82 stations on Leg I, 22 on Leg II. Personnel were exchanged at Monterey 15 Apr 2017 at 0900PDT. Other than rough weather three days into the cruise slowing station transits, station operations were performed without issues. With fewer analytical personnel aboard, Leg II's CTD-rosette seawater sampling depths were reduced to 12 versus Leg I's 20-24 sampled depths.
Data Files:  1704SH CTD Raw Cast Files; 1704SH FINAL CTD+Bottle Files
Announcement: CalCOFI 1704SH Final Cruise Instructions
Cruise Dates: Leg I: Tuesday, 28 Mar 2017 - ~Saturday 15 Apr 2017, San Diego to Monterey CA
  Leg II: ~Saturday 15 Apr - Friday 21 Apr 2017, Monterey to San Francisco CA
Loading: Saturday 25 Mar - Monday 27 Mar 2017 at 10th Ave Marine Terminal, San Diego, CA
Offloading: Friday 21 Apr - Sunday 23 Apr 2017 in San Francisco; location Pier30/32
Partiicpant Forms: NOAA Medical Forms - required for all cruise participants sailing 28 Mar 2017
Ship: RV Bell M Shimada
Station plan: 104 Stations (95 CalCOFI + 9 SCCOOS)
Cruise Map:
   
Contacts: Amy Hays, Chief Scientist, NMFS
  Dan Schuller, 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 2014-17 24 station sampling pattern
  Seabirds , Visual Observations
  Cetaceans, Visual and Acoustic Surveys