Deployment: DRFT08RR

2002-01-06 - 2002-02-14 Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand Platform:R/V Roger Revelle (vessel)

Description

Brief cruise plan description:
Three ships were involved in the SOFeX experiment. Each ship operated in the study area at a different time to afford the longest observation time. The designations SOFeX-N and SOFeX-S are sometimes used to distinguish between two iron enriched patches - one in low silicate waters north of the polar front (SOFEX-N), and the other in high silicate waters south of the polar front (SOFEX-S). All three ships, Melville (MV), Revelle (RR) and Polar Star (PS), worked in SOFEX-S, but only the Revelle and Melville worked in the SOFeX N patch and shuttled between the two patches.

The R/V ROGER REVELLE from Scripps Institution of Oceanography sailed first. The REVELLE team added iron to two areas referred to as 'the North and South patches'. After the iron and an inert chemical tracer (SF6) were added, the REVELLE's primary mission was to map the size and characteristics of the South patch using a SeaSOAR fish towed behind the ship that pumped water up to the ship for sampling and analysis. The REVELLE also collected samples for initial biological shipboard mapping of iron concentrations, nutrients, chlorophyll, and photosynthetic efficiency. A cruise logbook includes daily entries filed by the Chief Scientist aboard each vessel.

DatasetLatest Version DateCurrent State
SOFeX Revelle cruise sampling event log from R/V Roger Revelle cruise DRFT08RR from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2007-03-28Final no updates expected
SOFeX project cruise track animation from R/V Melville, R/V Roger Revelle, USCGC Polar Star cruises COOK19MV, DRFT08RR, PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2007-03-15Final no updates expected
SOFeX cruise narrative from USCGC Polar Star, R/V Melville, R/V Roger Revelle cruises PS02_2002, COOK19MV, DRFT08RR from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand, Southern Ocean in 2002 (SOFeX project)2007-02-08Final no updates expected
Pigments from HPLC analysis of bottle samples from SOFeX cruisse PS02_2002, COOK19MV, DRFT08RR from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand, Southern Ocean in 2002 (SOFeX project)2007-02-09Final no updates expected
Ship activity schedule PDF from USCGC Polar Star, R/V Roger Revelle, R/V Melville cruises PS02_2002, DRFT08RR, COOK19MV from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand, Southern Ocean in 2002 (SOFeX project)2002-03-08Final no updates expected
SOFeX multi-ship sampling event log from R/V Melville, R/V Roger Revelle, USCGC Polar Star cruises COOK19MV, DRFT08RR, PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2007-04-02Final no updates expected
SOFeX project CTD profile data from R/V Melville, R/V Roger Revelle, USCGC Polar Star cruises COOK19MV, DRFT08RR, PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2007-02-01Final no updates expected
SOFeX Cruise Data Inventory from R/V Melville, R/V Roger Revelle, USCGC Polar Star cruises COOK19MV, DRFT08RR, PS02_2002 from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2006-02-06Final no updates expected
Particulate Organic Matter (POM) from R/V Melville, R/V Roger Revelle cruises COOK19MV, DRFT08RR from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2007-04-01Final no updates expected
Primary Productivity and chlorophyll from bottle samples from R/V Melville, R/V Roger Revelle cruises COOK19MV, DRFT08RR from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2008-08-12Final no updates expected
Nano- and microplankton biomass, epifluorescence microscopy from R/V Melville, R/V Roger Revelle cruises COOK19MV, DRFT08RR from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2007-03-28Final no updates expected
SIO-CTD rosette bottle basic CTD hydrographic and nutrient data from R/V Melville, R/V Roger Revelle cruises COOK19MV, DRFT08RR from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2007-03-28Final no updates expected
Fluorometric chlorophyll from Niskin and TM bottle samples from R/V Melville, R/V Roger Revelle cruises COOK19MV, DRFT08RR from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2008-11-06Final no updates expected
TMR CTD pressure, temperature, salinity profiles from R/V Roger Revelle cruise DRFT08RR from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2006-03-02Final no updates expected
Trace Metal clean rosette bottle hydrographic and nutrient data from R/V Roger Revelle cruise DRFT08RR from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2006-01-09Final no updates expected
Underway measurement of Iron (Fe (III)) from R/V Roger Revelle cruise DRFT08RR from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2008-08-19Final no updates expected
SOFeX Revelle surveys and iron additions from R/V Roger Revelle cruise DRFT08RR from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2002-03-08Final no updates expected
SOFeX Revelle SF6 Patch Determination Table from R/V Roger Revelle cruise DRFT08RR from the Southern Ocean, south of New Zealand in 2002 (SOFeX project)2008-08-22Final no updates expected

Deployment Report

People

Chief Scientist: Ken Johnson
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Synonyms

• RR_2002_SOFeX

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