| Announcement: | CalCOFI 1704SH Final Cruise Instructions |
| Cruise Dates: | Leg I: Tuesday, 28 Mar 2017 - ~Saturday 15 Apr 2017, San Diego to Monterey CA |
| Leg II: ~Saturday 15 Apr - Friday 21 Apr 2017, Monterey to San Francisco CA | |
| Loading: | Saturday 25 Mar - Monday 27 Mar 2017 at 10th Ave Marine Terminal, San Diego, CA |
| Offloading: | Friday 21 Apr - Sunday 23 Apr 2017 in San Francisco; location Pier30/32 |
| Partiicpant Forms: | NOAA Medical Forms - required for all cruise participants sailing 28 Mar 2017 or 15 Apr 2017 |
| Ship: | RV Bell M Shimada |
| Station plan: | 104 Stations (95 CalCOFI + 9 SCCOOS) |
| Cruise Map: |
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| Contacts: | Amy Hays, Chief Scientist, NMFS |
| Dan Schuller, 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 | NCOG DNA/RNA | ||
| 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 2014-17 24 station sampling pattern | |||
| Seabirds , Visual Observations | |||
| Cetaceans, Visual and Acoustic Surveys | |||