Deployment: OC449-03

R/V Oceanus Voyage #449, Leg III was a Coastal transect between Cape Verde and the Mauritanian coast (17N/24.5W to 20N/17.3W). The main scientific objective was to test the hypothesis that the continental margin of northwest Africa provides a significant subsurface supply of iron to the open eastern tropical Atlantic.

The planned scientific activities include CTD casts, In Situ Water Pump casts for large volume water collection, Gravity Coring, and Aerosol sampling.

Scientific personnel:
Dr. Phoebe Lam, Chief Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Dr. Henrieta Dulaiova, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mr. Steven Pike, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mr. James Saenz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Dr. Aron Stubbins, Old Dominion University
Ms. Hongmei Chen, Old Dominion University
Dr. Edward Michael Perdue, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mr. Nelson Green, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mr. Péricles Silva, Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas (INDP)
Dr. Anibal Medina, Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas (INDP)
Mr. Alexander Dorsk, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

WHOI cruise planning synopsis>

Cruise information and original data are available from the NSF R2R data catalog.