0810NH Cruise Prospectus

General Information

• Departs San Diego on SIO R/V New Horizon 0800 14 Oct  2008.
• Returns to San Diego  30 Oct 2008.  
• Station plan: 66 standard CalCOFI and 9 SCCOOS stations are scheduled.
• Number of participants: 14 scientists, technicians & volunteers.

CTD Sensors

• Temperature
• Conductivity
• Oxygen
• Fluorescence
• Transmissometer                   
• PAR
• NO3  

Bottle Samples

• Salinity
• Oxygen
• Nutrients: NO3, NO2, PO4, Sil, NH3
• Chlorophyll-a, phaeopigments
• Primary Productivity
• HPLC
• DIC
• LTER ancillary sampling

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
• PRPOOS vertical net tow – Lines 80, 90, coastal stas on lines 86.7, 83.3
• ADCP – Dr. Teresa K. Chereskin 
• SCIMS – shipboard continuous integrated measurement system; continuous surface and meterological measurements
• Daily primary productivity C14-uptake incubation experiments.
• Bird & marine mammal observations and acoustic recording
• Ancillary LTER water samples – size fractionations, slides

Contact:

• James  Wilkinson (Chief Scientist), IOD
• Dave Wolgast , IOD
• Dave Griffith NMFS for additional information or request for  participation.