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| Cruise ID | RR1202 |
| Vessel | R/V ROGER REVELLE |
| Title | The Great Southern Coccolithophore Belt |
| Abstract | Collaborative Research: The Great Southern Coccolithophore Belt: We have been funded for two cruises to systematically sample the Great Coccolithophore Belt along the 50oS parallel, during the austral summers of 2011 and 2012. The two legs would be between a) Punta Arenas, Chile, Cape Town, South Africa and 2) Cape Town, SA and Fremantle, Australia. The approximate lengths of each leg are: Punta Arenas to Cape Town: 12,045km Cape Town to Fremantle: 11,650km Due to prevailing directions and intensities of wind and seas, we would propose to do the cruise track in an eastward direction. Each cruise leg has a north-south section from 30°S to 60°S in order to define the meridional variability within the Great Coccolithophore Belt in each ocean sector. The N-S legs are at 20°W (the northern section of which overlaps the AMT line) and 70°E (just east of the Kerguelen Plateau). The transits to- and from- Cape Town and Fremantle also provide N-S sampling across the Great Belt. Details of the length of each leg are given in Table 1 and Fig. 9 of the original proposal. The 2011 cruise is scheduled for mid-January-February to accommodate the Geotraces cruise ending in early December 2010 (using the same McLane pumps that we will be using). |
| Starting Port | Durban, South Africa |
| Ending Port | Fremantle, Australia |
| Starting Date | 2012-02-18 |
| Ending Date | 2012-03-23 |
| Principal Investigator | Balch, William M. |