CalCOFI 0903FR Cruise Prospectus (cruise announcement pdf)

• Current survey data & egg maps
• Loading Days: 14 - 15 Apr 2009, F/V Frosti at San Francisco
• Depart San Francisco on F/V Frosti 16 Apr 2009
• Offloads in San Diego 9 May 2009
• Station Plan: 38 central & northern CalCOFI stations are scheduled plus transects/stations in between standard lines occupied on 0903JD 
• Number of Scientific Party: 6 scientists & technicians

Proposed Sta Work:

• Seabird CTD with 12-2.5L bottle rosette to 500m, depth-permitting
  • CTD Sensors include:
    • Dual SBE3 fast response Temperature sensors
    • Dual SBE4 Conductivity sensors
    • SBE43 Oxygen sensor
    • Fluorometer
    • Wetlabs 25cm, 660nm Transmissometer
• Water Sample Analyses include:
  • Salinities, Guildline Portasal
  • Oxygens, SIO-ODF Auto-titrator
  • Chlorophyll-a + phaeopigments, 24hr cold acetone extractions, Turner Design Fluorometer
  • Nutrients: NO3, NO2, PO4, Sil, NH3; frozen for later analysis
• Net Tows:
  • 100m Pairovet vertical net tow (coastal stations only - out to sta 70)
  • 210m Bongo net  tow - all stations
  • MANTA neuston net tow - all stations
  • Mid-water Trawls with new marine mammal screening
• Continuously collected data:
  • Acoustics - Shipboard EK-60 acoustics system 
• Visual and acoustic observations
  • Avifauna (bird) census