EX1305: Summer Ecosystem Monitoring Survey on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer between 20130821 and 20130901

Description

The survey consists of 120 random stratified stations in the Middle Atlantic Bight, Southern New England, Georges Bank and the Gulf of Maine. Depending on the duration of the cruise and weather, fewer stations might be samples. These will be sampled with an array of bongo nets: a 61 cm bongo frame equipped with two 333 micron mesh nets, and a smaller 20 cm bongo frame equipped with two nets of that same mesh A subset of 15 stations from the cruise will be sampled with a similar array except that the 20 cm bongo frames will be equipped with 165 micron mesh nets. There will be five fixed position stations in the Gulf of Maine that will be sampled for plankton using a bongo net, and for water using a Niskin bottle rosette equipped with 12 10-liter bottles provided by the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. There will also be an additional thirty fixed position stations that will be sampled using only the Niskin bottle rosette sampler. The rosette sampler will be equipped with a Laser In-Situ Scattering and Transmissometry (LISST) instrument mounted horizontally on the rosette frame below the Niskin bottles to provide particulate counts and measurements. The Video Plankton Recorder will be deployed at selected stations underneath the bongo sample. It will record data in archive-mode and be downloaded on the deck. The Imaging FlowCytobot will be plumbed into the scientific flow-through system and used throughout the cruise. This cruise will represent the first operational deployment of these new technologies in the northeast U.S. shelf ecosystems.

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  • juvenile yellowtail flounder
  • single beam sonar
  • underwater video
  • ecosystem process
  • scs
  • niskin bottles
  • optical plankton equipment
  • r337
  • telepresence
  • visual observations
  • transmissometers
  • living marine resources
  • conductivity
  • stock assessments program
  • ocean acidification
  • high-definition underwater video
  • sustainable productivity
  • water column backscatter
  • singlebeam sonar
  • nova scotia shelf
  • ecosystem process division
  • gulf of maine
  • water samples
  • msbs
  • ocean acidification program
  • multibeam
  • noaa fleet
  • nutrient levels
  • bongo nets
  • ocean exploration and research
  • stock assessments
  • southern new england
  • echo sounders
  • mapping survey
  • sub-bottom profile
  • labrador current
  • multibeam sonar
  • water bottles
  • lisst
  • video plankton recorder
  • multibeam backscatter
  • middle atlantic bight
  • single-beam sonar
  • climate research program
  • scientific computing system
  • multibeam swath bathymetry system
  • stellwagen bank
  • okeanos explorer
  • northern right whale
  • temperature
  • limanda ferruginea
  • georges bank
  • census of marine zooplankton project
  • ctd
  • exploration vessel
  • okeanos
  • marine turtle sightings
  • marine mammal sightings
  • depth
  • deep-sea exploration
  • imaging flow cytobot
  • marine bird sightings
  • larval yellowtail flounder
  • continental shelf ecosystem
  • laser in-situ scattering and transmissometry

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