• Leg I : Departs San Diego on NOAA R/V David Starr Jordan 0800 24 Mar 2008. Returns to San Diego  9 Apr 2008.  Sixty-six standard and 9 SCCOOS stations are scheduled for Leg 1.
  • Leg 2 : Departs San Diego on NOAA R/V David Starr Jordan 0800 11 Apr 2008. Returns to San Diego  1 May 2008.  Trawling and CUFES surveying to Pt Conception then CUFES and station work northward to Line 60 (San Francisco).
  • Number of participants: Leg 1: 14 scientists, technicians & volunteers; Leg 2: 10 scientists, technicians
CTD Sensors Bottle Samples
  • Temperature
  • Conductivity
  • Oxygen
  • Fluorescence
  • Transmissometer
  • PAR
  • NO3
  • Salinity
  • Oxygen
  • Nutrients: Leg 1 only
  • Chlorophyll-a, phaeopigments
  • Primary Productivity, Leg 1 only
  • HPLC, Leg 1 only
  • LTER ancillary sampling, Leg 1 only

Proposed station work:

  • 500m Seabird CTD/24 10L bottle rosette cast (depth permitting)
  • 100m Pairovet vertical net tow (coastal stations only - out to sta 70)
  • 210m Bongo net  tow - all stations
  • MANTA neuston net tow - all stations
  • CUFES - continuous underway fish egg system
  • Leg 1: PRPOOS vertical net tow - Lines 80, 90, coastal stas on lines 86.7, 83.3,
  • ADCP - Dr. Teresa K. Chereskin
  • Underway surface TSG - shipboard continuous integrated measurement system; continuous surface and meterological measurements
  • Leg 1: Daily primary productivity C14-uptake incubation experiments.
  • Leg 1: Bird & marine mammal observations and acoustic recording
  • Leg 1: Ancillary LTER water samples - size fractionations, slides
  • Leg 2: Mid-water Trawls
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Dave Griffith (Chief Scientist), NMFS for additional information or request for  participation.
Please check the NOAA David Starr Jordan web site for EXACT cruise dates.