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Cruise diary, day 6: 21 Aug 2007

6:30 am leave the Maritime Museum Dock in Astoria to reach our North Channel station west of the bridge. Suzanna Brauer has joined us again for the day to collect samples to study manganese oxidizers. Again we took CTD cast every 30 min for the whole tidal cycle and did not see a true ETM event yet only a small increases in OBS values in the morning (which we sampled).

cruise diary, day 5: 20 Aug 2007

6:00 am leave the Maritime Museum Dock in Astoria. Suzanna Brauer has joined us for the day to collect samples to study manganese oxidizers. Michael Wilkin is also joining us for the morning to hook up the ADP interface (Michael left the Barnes on the Forerunner). Coordination with the Forerunner which is doing a trans-south channel transect at the location of the Barnes, and North Channel and South Channel transects. We took CTD cast every 30 min for the whole tidal cycle.

cruise diary, day 4: 19 Aug 2007

Left Rainier Dock on Columbia River early in the morning to sample 3 times in the Columbia River at Beaver Army Dock (station 6, casts 9, 10 and 11). Sediment sampling with Shipeck grab sampler. We then returned to the MERTS campus to install the new side-mount ADP. In the evening we sailed to the Maritime museum dock in Astoria to be closer to our sampling site the next morning in the South channel.

cruise diary, day 3: 18 Aug 2007

Leave Port of Vancouver Dock on Columbia River to collect water samples in the Columbia River before the Confluent with the Willamette River (station 2, cast 5), the Willamette River before the Confluent with the Columbia River (station 3, cast 6), after the Confluent of Columbia and Willamette River. (station 4, cast 7) and in the Columbia River at Columbia City (station 5, cast 8). A grab sediment sample (very sandy) was also collected at station 5.

Cruise diary, day 2 afternoon, 17 Aug 2007

First sample collected in the estuary of the Columbia River, off Tongue Point (Surface water = 0 PSU, Bottom water = 2 PSU; Station 1 cast 4) and we are sailing right away towards Portland. Arrived in Port of Vancouver around 9:30 pm.

Cruise Diary, day 2: 17 Aug 2007

Friday 17 August 2007

Cruise diary, day 1: 16 Aug 2007

R/V Barnes - CMOP cruise 14-31 August 2007

Ray McQuin (Captain)
Dave (first mate)
Jim Jim Postel (marine technician, UW)
2. Lydie Herfort (chief scientist, OHSU)
3. Mike Malpezzi (UMCES)
4. Tiffany Gregg (OSU)
5. Bill Howe (OHSU)
6. Sherry Pike-Saville (UMCES)

Thursday 16 August 2007

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