R/V Barnes Research Cruise - July 2008

Date: July 7‐24, 2008
Chief Scientist: Joe Needoba
Research Vessel: R/V Clifford Barnes
Data: Cruise Data


SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
1. Evaluate CMOP ocean observatory infrastructure and instrumentation. Ground‐truth SATURN‐01 and 03 stations and instrumentation.

2. Collect samples for microbial ecology investigations (extension of 2007 sampling program)

3. Biogeochemistry measurements across river‐to‐ocean domain

4. Adaptive sampling exercises to measure salt intrusion and ETM dynamics

DETAILED CRUISE PLAN
Barnes cruise plan (.pdf)

CRUISE RESULTS

» 252 CTD casts
» 162 water samples
» Primary production study
» Salinity Intrusion studies
» ETM dynamics
» Ground truth SATURN 01 and 03