0610RR CalCOFI Cruise Prospectus

  • Departs San Diego on SIO R/V Roger Revelle 0800 21 Oct 2006.
  • Returns to San Diego  6 Nov 2006.  
    • Leg I: San Diego 21 Oct to Dana Point 27 Oct; Personnel Exchange
    • Leg II: Dana Point 27 Oct to Ventura 1 Nov; Personnel Exchange
    • Leg III: Ventura 1 Nov to Pt. Conception, returning to San Diego 6 Nov
  • Station plan: 66 standard CalCOFI & 9 SCCOOS coastal stations are scheduled.
  • Number of participants: 28 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
    • MVP - Moving Vessel Profiler deployments during transits on Lines 80-77 - Dr. Mark Ohman
    • Trace Metals - samples collected and processed at several stations - Dr. Katherine Barbeau
    • Acoustic array maintenance at 90.53 - Dr. John Hildebrand

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

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