| Cruise Dates: | Wednesday, 30 Mar 2016 - Saturday, 23 Apr 2016 (Tentative) |
| Loading: | Monday, 28 Mar 2016 - Tuesday, 29 Mar 2016 (Tentative) |
| Offloading: | 23 Apr 2016 San Francisco, CA |
| Ship: | NOAA RV Bell M Shimada |
| Cruise Instructions: | NOAA Cruise Instructions PDF |
| Participant Forms: | NOAA Medical Clearance Forms link: required for all scientists sailing on RV Shimada |
| Station plan: | 104 Stations (95 CalCOFI + 9 SCCOOS); NOAA 1604SH Project Instructions will be posted here |
| Cruise Map: |
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| Contacts: | Amy Hays, Chief Scientist, NMFS |
| Jennifer Rodgers-Wolgast, IOD (SIO Technical Coordinator) | |
| Proposed station work: | Seabird CTD / 24 bottle rosette cast (500m depth permitting) | ||
| CTD Sensors: | Bottle Samples: | ||
| Temperature | Salinity | ||
| Conductivity | Oxygen | ||
| Oxygen | Nutrients | ||
| Fluorescence | Primary Productivity | ||
| Transmissomter | Chlorophyll-a | ||
| PAR | Phaeopigments | ||
| pH | HPLC | ||
| ISUS Nitrate | DIC | ||
| Altimeter | LTER ancillary | ||
| 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: | |||
| SCS, Underway continuous surface and meterological measurements | |||
| Primary Productivity, Daily C14-uptake incubations | |||
| Ancillary LTER , Plankton abundance, biomass, Chl a size fractionations, POC, DOC | |||
| Fisheries Acoustics | |||
| DIC, new 2014-16 24 station sampling pattern | |||
| Seabirds , Visual Observations | |||
| Cetaceans, Visual and Acoustic Surveys | |||