NSF/OPP Antarctic Treaty Report- Oceanography- Government-2002-2003 Mods



Section XV of the Modifications of Activities Planned for 2002-2003 presents final information regarding United States Antarctic Program sponsored oceanographic expeditions during the 2002-2003 season.

Note: For actual tracks of the Research Vessels Nathaniel B. Palmer and Laurence M. Gould please see Attachment C, Cruise Tracks.

R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer

The R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer made nine science cruises during the period of 30 March 2002 through 31 March 2003. Cruises are:

Cruise NBP02-02
09 April – 21 May 2002: Southern Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (SO GLOBEC) Circulation and Water Property Evolution.

BG-247-O (Wiebe)

OG-231-O (Hofmann)

OG-240-O (Hofmann)

BG-246-O (Vernet)

OG-233-O (Fanning)

BG-236-O (Daly)

OG-238-O (Padman)

BG-239-O (Hildebrand)

BG-243-O (Ribic)

Cruise NBP02-03
25 May – 24 July 2002 Dry Dock and Maintenance Period, Talcahuano, Chile

Cruise NBP02-04
31 July-18 September 2002: Southern Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (SO GLOBEC) Circulation and Water Property Evolution.

BG-247-O (Wiebe)

BG-236-O (Daly)

OG-231-O (Beardsley)

OG-233-O (Fanning)

BG-235-O (Fritsen)

OG-238-O (Padman)

OG-240-O (Hofmann)

BG-243-O (Ribic)

BG-245-O (Torres)

BG-246-O (Vernet)

Cruise NBP02-05
23 September –19 October 2002: Bride of TABASCO: Latitudinal Effects of UVR on bacterioplankton.

BO-200-O (Jeffrey)

Cruise NBP02-05a
19 October- 28 October 2002 Maintenance Period, San Diego, CA

Cruise NBP02-06
29 October- 03 November 2002 Seismic System Testing

Cruise NBP2-06a
03 November – 08 November 2002: Simrad multibeam and dynamic position text/Coring, at sea, Port Hueneme

Cruise NBP02-07
10 November– 06 December 2002: Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Reconstruction of the Southwest Pacific

GO-071-O (Cande)

Cruise NBP02-08
Open Period at Lyttelton, New Zealand
06 December – 11 December 2002

Cruise NBP02-09
12 December 2002- 01 January 2003: Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Reconstruction of the Southwest Pacific

GO-071-O (Cande)

Cruise NBP03-01
05 January- 30 January 2003 McMurdo Ice Edge: Antarctic Cretaceous-Cenozoic Climate, Glaciation, and Tectonics: Site surveys for drilling from the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf

GO-152-O (Bartek, Luyendyk)

Cruise NBP03-01a
02 February-20 February 2003: CAREER: Relative frequency and phase of extreme expansions of the Antarctic ice sheets during the late Neogene

GO-154-O (Bart)

Cruise NBP03-1b
20 Febuary- 22 February 2003: Inter-annual Variability in the Antarctic-Ross Sea: Nutrient fields and seasonal productivity II (IVARS) Mooring Recovery Support

BO-047-O (W.O. Smith)

Cruise NPB03-02
25 February- 04 April 2003: Collaborative Research: Cross Slope Exchanges at the Antarctic Slope Front (ANSLOPE I)

OO-215-O (Gordon)

Biology & Medicine

Principal Investigator

Event

Institution

Daly (+4)

BG-236-O

University of Southern Florida

Fritsen (+1)

BG-235-O

Desert Research Institute

Hildebrand (+2)

BG-239-O

Scripps Institute of Oceanography

Ribic (+3)

BG-243-O

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Torres (+4)

BG-245-O

USF, College of Marine Science

Vernet (+3)

BG-246-O

USCD

Wiebe (+13)

BG-247-O

Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.

Zhou (+2)

BG-248-O

University of Massachusetts

Oceans and Climate

Principal Investigator

Event

Institution

Beardsley (+14)

OG-231-O

Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.

Fanning (+4)

OG-233-O

University of Southern Florida

Gordon (+24)

OO-215-O

Columbia University LDEO

Hofmann (+8)

OG-240-O

Old Dominion

Jeffrey (+7)

BO-200-O

University of West Florida

Padman (+1)

OG-238-O

Earth & Space Research

Smith,WO (+12)

BO-047-O

VIMS, College of William & Mary

Geology & Geophysics

Principal Investigator

Event

Institution

Bart (+7)

GO-154-O

LA State University, Baton Rouge

Bartek (+18)

GO-152-O

University of NC, Chapel Hill

Cande (+12)

GO-071-O

Scripps Institute of Oceanography

R/V Laurence M. Gould

The R/V Laurence M. Gouldmade thirteen science cruises and passenger transports to the Antarctic Peninsula during the period of 31 March 2002 through 1 April 2003.

Cruise LMG02-03
29 March – 20 May 2002: Southern GLOBEC: Foraging Ecology of Crabeater Seals; Seabird Ecology using Observations and Diet Samples; Krill Distribution; Krill age and dietary history; Mysticete Whale Acoustic Census, Copepod Prey Abundance

BG-232-O (Costa)

BG-234-O (Fraser)

BG-236-O (Daly)

BG-237-O (Harvey)

BG-245-O (Torres)

BG-248-O (Zhou)

Cruise LMG02-04
25 May- 30 June 2002: Dry Dock and Maintenance, Talcahuano, Chile

Cruise LMG02-04a
05 July-23 July 2002 Palmer Station Shuttle

Cruise LMG02-04b
24 July – 29 July 2002 Punta Arenas, Chile Open Period

Cruise LMG02-05
29 July- 18 September 2002: Southern GLOBEC: Foraging Ecology of Crabeater Seals; Seabird Ecology using Observations and Diet Samples; Winter Distribution and Activities of Sea-ice Microbial Communities in the Western Antarctic Peninsula; Optical Environmental; Winter Ecology of Larval Krill

BG-232-O (Costa)

BG-235-O (Fraser)

BG-235-O (Fritsen)

OG-241-O (Martinson)

BG-244-O (Ross)

Cruise LMG02-06
23 September-07 October 2002: Palmer Station Shuttle #1

Cruise LMG02-07
11 October- 16 October 2002: Palmer Station Shuttle #2: COPA field Camp: Foraging Behavior and Demography of Pygoscelis Peguins

BO-040-O (Trivelpiece)

Cruise LMG02-07a
25 October-02 November 2002 Punta Arenas, Chile Open Period

Cruise LMG02-08
03 November-17 November 2002: Cape Shirreff Field Camp opening

OO-283-O (Stearns)

BO-040-O (Trivelpiece)

Cruise LMG02-09
23 November-23 December 2002 The Scotia Arc GPS Project: Focus on the Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands;AMS radiocarbon chronology of glacier fluctuations in the South Shetland Islands during the last glacial/interglacial hemicycle: Implications for the role of Antarctica in global climate change

GO-080-O (Taylor)

IO-196-L (Hall)

Cruise LMG03-01
31 December-08 February 2003: Long-Term Ecological Research on the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem: An Ice-Dominated Environment (LTER)

BP-013-O (Fraser)

BP-016-O (Vernet)

BP-021-O (Martinson)

BP-028-O (Quetin, Ross)

BP-032-O (R.Smith)

BP-045-O (Ducklow)

Cruise LMG03-02
13 February-07 March 2003: Southern Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (SO GLOBEC): Mysticete Whale Acoustic Census in the GLOBEC West Antarctic Project Area; Circulation and Water Property Evolution

BP-239-O (Hildebrand)

OG-231-O (Beardsley)

Cruise LMG03-03
12 March-30 March 2003: Development of a luminescence dating capability for Antarctic glaciomarine sediments: Tests of signal zeroing of the Antarctic peninsula

GO-092-O (Berger)

Biology & Medicine

Principal Investigator

I.D. No.

Institution

Amsler (+7)

BO-022-O

University of Alabama, Birmingham

Costa (+9)

BG-232-O

University of California, Santa Cruz

Daly (+4)

BG-236-O

University of Southern Florida

Ducklow (+4)

BP-032-P

College of William & Mary

Ducklow (+4)

BP-045-L

College of William & Mary

Fraser (+3)

BG-234-O

Polar Oceans Research Group

Fraser (+6)

BP-013-O

Polar Ocean Research Group

Fritzen (+4)

BG-235-O

Desert Research Institute

Harvey (+2)

BG-237-O

Chesapeake Bio Lab, UMCES

Hildebrand (+6)

BG-239-O

Scripps Inst. of Oceanography

Murray (+3)

BO-179-O

DRI, Earth & Ecosystem Sciences

Ross (+9)

BP-028-O

University of Ca, Santa Barbara

Ross-Quetin (+8)

BG-244-O

University of California, Santa Barbara

Torres (+5)

BG-245-O

University of South Florida

Trivelpiece (+4)

BO-040-O

Montana State University

Vernet (+8)

BP-016-L

UCSD/SIO

Wiebe (+1)

BG-247-O

Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.

Zhou (+4)

BG-248-O

University of Massachusetts

Glaciology

Principal Investigator

I.D. No.

Institution

Hall, Brenda (+1)

IO-196-O

University of Maine

Ocean & Climate

Principal Investigator

I.D. No.

Institution

Beardsley (

OG-231-O

Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.

Martinson (+2)

OG-241-O

Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

Stearns (+0)

OO-283-O

University of Wisconsin

Taylor (+3)

GO-080-O

University of Texas, Austin

R/V Yuzhmorgeologiya

Information on cruises conducted by the R/V Yuzhmorgeologiya on behalf of NOAA’s Antarctic Marine Living Resources field program is not available at this time. The "AMLR 2002/2003 Field Season Report" will be available later in the fall. Contact the following address for a copy of the printed report:

Southwest Fisheries Service Center
National Marine Fisheries Service
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
P.O. Box 271
La Jolla, CA 92038

Note: See Appendix III for complete list of scientific personnel for each I.D. No.