Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Cruise Planning Synopsis


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PUFINS

Ship

R/V Atlantis

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: Jun 3, 2022

Woods Hole

Arrival: Jun 15, 2022

Woods Hole

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.

Additional Info

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:

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

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

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

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

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

Supporting documentation:

Funding

Funding Agency: NSF
Grant or contract number: OCE2022462

Scientific Instrumentation for R/V Atlantis

Other Science Vans:

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
How many nets? null
How many tansponders? null
Will you be using Ultra-short baseline (USBL) navigation?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
Winch 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

Standard Oceanographic Cables

Slip ring required? no
Non-standard wire required? no
Traction winch required? no
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?yesDescribe 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?yesSpecialized tech support (Seabeam, coring, other):
multibeam, multicoring, CTD sampling,  McLane pumpsOther required equipment and special needs:

Checklist & Notes

Checklist

U.S. Customs Form: no
Diplomatic Clearance: no
Date Submitted:
Date Approved:
Agent Information:
Countries:
Notes:
Isotope Use Approval: no
Isotope Notes:
SCUBA Diving: no

Checklist

SSSG Tech: