Cruise Dates: 4  - 14 May 2021 (Tue-Fri; 11 DAS) 
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2-3 May 2021 (Sun-Mon) board ship, load, setup Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal San Diego

Offloading: 14 or 15 May 2021, depending on arrival time (Fri or Sat) Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal San Diego
Ship: NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada
Station plan: 48 stations scheduled (see below)
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Proposed station work: Seabird CTD / 12bottle rosette cast (500m depth permitting)
  CTD Sensors: Bottle Samples:
  Temperature Salinity
  Conductivity Oxygen
  Oxygen Nutrients
  Fluorescence Chlorophyll-a
  Transmissomter Phaeopigments
  PAR HPLC
  pH DIC
  ISUS Nitrate NCOG DNA/RNA
  Altimeter LTER ancillary
    Primary Productivity
  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:
  Met, Underway continuous surface and meterological measurements
  Ancillary LTER , Plankton abundance, biomass, Chl a size fractionations, POC, DOC
  ADCP
  DIC (limited)
  Seabirds , Visual Observations
  Cetaceans, Visual and Acoustic Surveys