0604NH CalCOFI Cruise Prospectus

• Departs San Diego on SIO R/V New Horizon 0800 1 Apr 2006.
• Returns to San Diego  18 Apr 2006.  
• Station plan: 66 standard CalCOFI & 9 SCCOOS coastal stations are scheduled.
• Number of participants: 16 scientists, technicians, volunteers & students.
• Proposed station work:
• 500m Seabird CTD/24 bottle rosette cast (depth permitting)

CTD  Sensors	Bottle Samples
Temperature Conductivity Oxygen Fluorescence Transmissometer PAR ISUS NO3	Salinity Oxygen Nutrients Primary Productivity Chlorophyll-a Phaeopigments HPLC

• 100m Pairovet vertical net tow (coastal stations out to sta 70)
• 210m Bongo net  tow
• 210m PRPOOS 202um  vertical net tows (on 35 stations)
• MANTA neuston net tow
• ADCP- Dr. Teresa K. Chereskin
• Daily primary productivity C14-uptake incubation experiments.
• Bird & marine mammal observations -Point Reyes Bird Observatory
  and Dr John Hildebrand Marine Mammal Acoustics Group, SIO
• SCCOOBOP (SCCOOS Bio-optics package mounted on rosette) - Dr Ralf Goericke
• LTER - samples collected and processed at all stations - Dr. Mark Ohman

Contact Ralf Goericke or James Wilkinson, SIO/IOD; Dave Griffith or Amy Hays, NMFS
   for additional information or request for  participation.  
  Please check the New Horizon web site for more information.