The AT18-02 cruise sailed from Galveston, Texas and returned to Gulfport, Mississippi. Operations consisted of sediment sampling using the DSV ALVIN, hydrographic characterizations of the water column and sampling of water for geochemical and microbiological characterization using a standard CTD/Rosette, and additional sampling using a multiple corer.
See more information from the WHOI cruise planning synopsis.
Cruise information and original data are available from the NSF R2R data catalog.