| Announcement: | NOAA RV Bell M Shimada sailed from Newport Oregon 24 Jan 2018. With the heavy seas & strong winds, RV Shimada should arrive at 10th Ave Marine Terminal San Diego Mon evening 29 Jan. |
| Cruise Dates: | 01 - 11 Feb 2018 |
| Loading: | Loading & setup 29-31 Jan 2018 10th Ave Marine Terminal, San Diego |
| Sailing: | 1000 01 Feb 2018 |
| Offloading: | 12 Feb 2018 San Francisco |
| Partiicpant Forms: | NOAA Medical Forms - required for all cruise participants sailing 01 Feb 2018 |
| Ship: | FSV Bell M Shimada |
| Station plan: | 48 Station station plan - with only 11 DAS, an abbreviated station pattern is required with offload in San Francisco |
| Cruise Map: |
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| Contacts: | Bryan Overcash, Chief Scientist, NMFS |
| Dave 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 | Chlorophyll-a | ||
| Transmissomter | Phaeopigments | ||
| PAR | HPLC | ||
| pH | DIC | ||
| ISUS Nitrate | NCOG DNA/RNA | ||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||