0804JD Cruise Prospectus

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

Contact James Wilkinson, IOD; Dave Wolgast , IOD;
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.

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