Antarctic Research Vessel- Modifications 2003-2004 Section 15, Oceanography- Government

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Link to 2003-04 USAP Plans

  
Section XV of the Modifications of Activities Planned for 2003-2004 presents final information regarding United States Antarctic Program sponsored oceanographic expeditions during the 2003-2004 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 ten science cruises during the period of 30 March 2003 through 31 March 2004.  Cruises are:

Cruise NBP03-04
23 May – 11 June 2003: Northbound transit to Alaska Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Reconstructions of the Southwest Pacific 

GO-071-O  (Steve Cande/Joann Stock)

Cruise NBP03-04A
05 July – 18 August 2003: Arctic Cruise Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interaction 

O-287-N 7 (Jim Swift)

Cruise NBP03-04B
            
22 August – 08 September 2003: Southbound Transit to HI  Late Cretaceous and 
            Cenozoic Reconstructions of the Southwest Pacific 

GO-071-O (Steve Cande/Joann Stock)

Production Observation Through Another Translatitudinal Oceanic Expedition (POTATOE)

B-200-N (Wade Jeffrey)

Cruise NBP03-04C
            14 September – 08 October 2003: Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Reconstructions of
             the Southwest Pacific 

GO-071-O (Steve Cande/Joann Stock)

Production Observation Through Another Translatitudinal Oceanic Expedition (POTATOE)

B-200-N (Wade Jeffrey)

Cruise NBP03-04D
09 October – 14 October 2003
Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Reconstructions of the Southwest Pacific 

GO-071-O (Steve Cande/Joann Stock)

 Production Observation Through Another Translatitudinal Oceanic Expedition (POTATOE)

B-200-N (Wade Jeffrey)

Cruise NBP03-05
27 October – 19 November 2003 (Aborted due to major engine failures on 03 November)

 Interactive Effects of UV Radiation and Vertical Mixing on Phytoplankton and Bacterioplankton in the Ross Sea 

B-203-N  (Pat Neale)

 

23 November – 12 December 2003:  Vessel off hire for main engine repairs

 

Cruise NBP03-05A
18 December 2003 – 01 January 2004: Interannual Variability in the Antarctic-Ross Sea (IVARS): Nutrients and Seasonal Production

B-047-N (Walker Smith)

Cruise NBP03-06
05 January – 17 January 2004: Collaborative Research: Antarctic Cretaceous-Cenozoic Climate, Glaciation, and Tectonics: Site surveys for drilling from the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf 

GO-152-N  (Lou Bartek/Bruce Luyendyk)

 Cruise NBP04-01
19 January – 18 February 2004: Neotectonic Structure of Terror Rift, Western Ross Sea  

G-099-N (Larry Lawver/Terry Wilson)

 Cruise NBP04-02
23 February – 10 April 2004: ANSLOPE III Collaborative Research: Cross-Slope Exchanges at the Antarctic Slope Front

O-215-N (Arnold Gordon)

 

Biology & Medicine

Principal Investigator

Event

Institution

Jeffrey

B-200-N

University of West Florida

Neal

B-203-N

Smithsonian Institution

Oceans and Climate

Principal Investigator

Event

Institution

Swift

O-287-N

Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Gordon

O-215-N

Columbia University, LDEO

Geology & Geophysics

Principal Investigator

Event

Institution

Stock

G-071-0

California Institute of Technology

Luyendyk

G-152-N

University of California, Santa Barbara

Wilson

G-099-N

Ohio State University


R/V Laurence M. Gould

The R/V Laurence M. Gouldmade twelve science cruises and passenger transports to the Antarctic Peninsula during the period of 31 March 2003 through 1 April 2004. 

Cruise LMG03-04
05 April – 07 May 2003: Structure, function and expression of tubulins, globins, and microtubule-dependent motors from cold-adapted Antarctic fishes

B-037-L (Bill Detrich)

 Cold body temperature as an evolutionary shaping force in the physiology of Antarctic fishes

B-036-L (Bruce Sidell)

 CTD operations and mooring recovery , Science of Opportunity (Martin Visbeck)

Cruise LMG03-04A 
10 May- 05 June 2003: Structure, function and expression of tubulins, globins, and microtubule-dependent motors from cold-adapted Antarctic fishes

B-037-L (Bill Detrich)

 Cold body temperature as an evolutionary shaping force in the physiology of Antarctic fishes

B-036-L (Bruce Sidell)

 Cruise LMG03-05 
16 June - 28 June 2003: Palmer Station Shuttle

29 June – 15 August 2003: Maintenance Period at Punta Arenas, Chile

Cruise LMG03-05A
16 August – 03 September 2003: Palmer Station Shuttle

 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) Sea Ice Validation during the L.M. GOULD Traverse to Antarctica

O-309-L (Konrad Steffen)

 

07 – 20 September 2003: Open Period for Maintenance

 

Cruise LMG03-06
22 September – 05 October 2003: Palmer Station Shuttle

Cruise LMG03-07
10 October - 23 October 2003: Palmer Station Shuttle, COPA Field Camp put-in

Cruise LMG03-07A
23 October  -  06 November 2003: Open Period

Cruise LMG03-08
07 November – 19 November 2003: Dynamic Similarity or Size Proportionality: Adaptations of a Polar Copepod

B-285-L (Jeanette Yen)

Long-Term Data Collection at Select Antarctic Peninsula Visitor Sites

B-086-E (Ronald Naveen)

Cruise LMG03-09
23 November – 29 December 2003: Global Climate Change and the Evolutionary Ecology of Antarctic Mollusks in the Late Eocene

G-065-E (Daniel Blake)

Evolution and Biogeography of Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula

G-061-E (Judd Case)

Dynamics of Predator-Prey Behavior in the Antarctic Ocean

B-023-L (Richard Veit)

 Cruise LMG04-01
12 February – 24 March 2004: Long-Term Ecological Research on the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem: An Ice-Dominated Environment (LTER)

BP-013-O ( Bill Fraser)

BP-016-O (Maria Vernet)

BP-021-O (Doug Martinson)

BP-028-O (Langdon Quetin, Robin Ross)

BP-032-O (Ray Smith)

BP-045-O (Hugh Ducklow)

 Cruise LMG04-02
12 February - 24 March 2004: Plankton community structure and iron distribution in the southern Drake Passage

B-228-L (Greg Mitchell)

B-248-L (Meng Zhou)

B-225-L (Christopher Measures)

Cruise LMG04-03
28 March – 12 April 2004: Mysticete whale acoustic census in the GLOBEC west Antarctic project area

B-239-L (John Hildebrand)

Biology & Medicine

Principal Investigator

I.D. No.

Institution

Detrich

B-037-L

Northeastern University

Siddell

B-036-L

University of Maine

Yen

B-285-E/L

Georgia Institute of Technology

Naveen

B-086-E

Oceanites Inc., Chevy Chase, Maryland

Veit

B-023-L

City University of New York

Fraser

B-013-L/P

Polar Oceans Research Group

Vernet

B-016-L/P

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Martinson

B-021-L

Columbia University, LDEO

Quetin/Ross

B-028-L/P

University of California, Santa Barbara

Smith

B-032-L/P

University of California, Santa Barbara

Ducklow

B-045-L/P

VIMS, The College of William and Mary

Mitchell

B-228-L

University of Hawaii, Manoa

Zhou

B-248-L

University of Massachusetts

Measures

B-225-L

University of Hawaii, Manoa

Hildebrand

B-239-L

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Geology & Geophysics

Principal Investigator

I.D. No.

Institution

Blake

G-065-E

University of Illinois, Urbana

Case

G-061-E

St. Mary’s College of California

Ocean & Climate

Principal Investigator

I.D. No.

Institution

Steffen

O-309-L

University of Colorado, Boulder

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