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R/V Atlantis

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Cruise Party

Julian Sachs: Principal Investigator
University of Washington
+1 206 678 7085
jsachs@uw.edu

Elisabeth Sikes: Chief Scientist
Rutgers University 71 Dudley Rd New Brunswick, NJ USA 08901
+1 848 932 3257
sikes@marine.rutgers.edu

Departure: Woods Hole on Jun 3, 2022

Arrival: Woods Hole on Jun 15, 2022

Mobilization Date: Jun 1, 2022

Demobilization Date: Jun 16, 2022

Supporting documentation:

Operations Area: Northwest Atlantic/ North American Northeastern Shelf/slope

Lat/Lon: 43° 0.0′ N / 62° 0.0′ W

Depth Range: 100 / 5000

Will the vessel be operating within 200 NM of a foreign country? USA and Canada
Are visas or special travel documents required? no

Science objectives

The purpose of this voyage is to obtain cores from varying depths on the shelf margin and slope that represent differing subsurface flow regimes.  The objective is to obtain a depth transect of cores from locations off of Nova Scotia (Canada) and New Jersey (USA) that represent different flow regimes.  These will be used to determine the influence of lateral transport by deep currents on SST records in the NW Atlantic.

We will be supproting this with collections of surface sediments with multi-cores.

We wil support these long-coring objectives with CTD water collection and McLane pump filtering.

Science Activities

We will be collecting bathymetric data on the voyage (multibeam bottom profiling and 3.5 kHz sub-bottom profiling for core location. 

We will be coring off of Nove Scotia and New Jersey.

We will be collecting water samples at these locations and various location between them.

Pre-cruise planning meeting: Teleconference

Media personnel on board: Video, Teachers/ outreach
We will have 4 teachers and 2 outreach coordinators who will be documenting our science operations for educational and outreach purposes. They are not media professionals but they will be photographing and filming as a major part of their efforts

Stations:

  water station #3
  Distance: 100
  Days: 0.2
  Latitude: 40° 21.0’ N
  Longitude: 71° W

  water station #2
  Distance: 100
  Days: 0.2
  Latitude: 41° N
  Longitude: 69° W

  water station #1
  Distance: 100
  Days: 0.2
  Latitude: 41° 57.0’ N
  Longitude: 66° W

  New Jersey
  Distance: 560
  Days: 3
  Latitude: 39° N
  Longitude: 72° W

  Nova Scotia
  Distance: 400
  Days: 3
  Latitude: 43° N
  Longitude: 62° W

Funding Agency: NSF #OCE2022462

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R/V Atlantis

Shipboard Equipment

Bathymetry System 3.5 kHz
Deionized Water System
Science Underway Seawater System
Multibeam
Fume Hood
Navigation - Position
Crane

Shipboard Communication

Basic Internet access via HiSeasNet
Is there an expectation to use Skype or any other real-time video conference program?

CTD/Water Sampling

911+ Rosette 24-position, 10-liter bottle Rosette with dual T/C sensors

Critical CTD Sensors:  McLane pumps. (I have contacted the pump pool about this)

Sediment Sampling

Gravity corers
Multi-core

Sample Storage

Scientific Walk-in Freezer


Storage Notes: MARSAM should also be contacted about core storage to ensure their gear is aboard or that other accomodations are made for storing the cores.

Navigation

Will you be using Long Base Line (LBL) navigation? no

Will you be using Ultra-short baseline (USBL) navigation for other than Alvin operations? no

Navigation

GPS

Navigation Notes:

Winches

CTD Winch with .322" Electro-mechanical wire
Trawl Winch with 9/16th trawl wire

Winch Notes: We will be coring over the side with the trawl wire.  This will require the coring crutch to be placed to support the coring efforts.

Wire use and application

CTD Winch with .322" Electro-mechanical wire
Trawl Winch with 9/16th trawl wire


Wire Notes: Please Discuss with the MARSAM team about the weight of the equipment and the issues associated with piston and gravity coring.
Our maximum depth cores will be 4000-5000 m

Slip ring required? no	Number of conductors:
Non-standard wire required? no	Type:
Traction winch required? no	Describe:

Other Science Vans:

Other Science Vans:

Science Van 1
Type/size: MST van (supplied by MARSAM)		Location: TBD
Water: no		Power:yes

Specialized Deck Equipment

Mooring Deployment/Recovery Equipment Required: no	Type:
Cruise Specific Science Winch Required: yes	Type: MARSAM supplied winches
Nets Required: no	Type:

Over the Side Equipment

Will you be bringing any equipment (winches, blocks, etc.) that lowers instruments over the side? yes

Details: Please discuss with MARSAM about the dedicated winch they use to deploy and recover long cores.  This will need to be mounted on the starboard deck

Special Requirements

Elecrical Power: no	Identify:
Equipment Handling: no	Identify:
Inter/intraship Communications: no	Identify:
Science Stowage: no	Identify:
Water: no	Identify:

Additional Cruise Items/Activities

Explosive Devices: no Portable Air Compressors: no Flammable Gases: no

Small Boat Operations: no SCUBA Diving Operations: no

Hazardous Material

Will hazardous material be utilized? yes

Describe deployment method and quantity:
HgCl will be used inside the lab for sample preservation

Radioactive Material

Radioiosotopes: no

Additional Information

Is night time work anticipated on this cruise? yes

Specialized tech support (Seabeam, coring, other):  multibeam, multicoring, CTD sampling,  McLane pumps

Other required equipment and special needs: 
Date Submitted: Mar 9, 2022 4:45 PM