The cruise began in Townsville, Australia and sampled the Coral Sea, a transect southward toward the Tasman Sea, and a transect northward toward New Caledonia, with twelve hydrostations (001-012). It then made a run eastward to 170 deg W, a northward run to 15 deg S, then a transect to the east before ending in Suva, Fiji after carrying out fourteen stations (013-026).
Cruise information and original data are available from the NSF R2R data catalog.
Chief Scientist: Jonathan P. Zehr
University of California-Santa Cruz
Co-Chief Scientist: Joseph Montoya
Georgia Institute of Technology
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