CMOP Cruises: August 2007

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Chief Scientists
- Murray Levine (Wecoma, Leg 1)
- Byron Crump (Wecoma, Legs 2 and 3)
- Lydie Herfort (Barnes)
- Antonio Baptista (Coordination and Forerunner)

Chief Technician
- Michael Wilkin

Participants and Contacts
The core scientific crew will be drawn among CMOP investigators, staff and students (see list, revised 12/26/2006). Additionally, berths will be reserved for groups developing CMOP-relevant technologies and interested in testing them in our regions of interest. Space allowing, berths may also be allocated to science groups with strategic synergies with CMOP.

Scientific Goals
- Characterization of river-to-ocean microbial and biogeochemical gradients: shotgun approch to characterizing microbial and contextual biogeochemistry gradients in a broad range of gradient/event regions, to explore geographic diversity, to test methodologies under different regimes and regions, and to guide more targeted follow-up cruises.
- Synergistic integration of numerical modeling in ocean observing: near real-time numerical benchmarking and modeling-assisted cruise planning, with geographic focus on the CR estuary, plume and OR-WA shelf

Straw Plan: Wecoma
Last revised: 12/26/2006
Leg I
Aug 14 – Load at Newport (includes loading for Leg II)
Aug 15 – Newport mooring
Aug 16,17 – OR transect
Aug 17 - Dock in Astoria
Leg II
Aug 18,19 – CR Plume
Aug 20,21, 22 – CR Estuary
Aug 23,24 – CR Plume
Aug 25 - Dock in Astoria. Limited science crew shift
Leg III
Aug 25,26,27 – WA transects, including JdF eddy
Aug 28,29 – CR Estuary/Plume/Shelf: repeat transects and weather backup
Aug 31,Sep 1 – Travel and Newport mooring. Load/Unload in Newport

Straw Plan: Barnes
Last revised: 12/26/2006
Aug 14 – Loading in Seattle
Aug 15 – Travel
Aug 16,17 – CR Upriver transect
Aug 18-24 – CR Studies of ETM and entrance density fronts, coordinated with Wecoma
Aug 25 – Willapa Bay (weather permitting) and Grays Harbor
Aug 26,27 – CR Studies of limit of salinity intrusion
Aug 28,29 - CR ETM studies
Aug 30,31 - Travel, Unloading in Seattle

Straw Plan: Forerunner
Last revised: 12/26/2006
Aug 18-24 (or sub-set) – Upstream North Channel fixed station (12h shifts) for CR Studies of ETM and entrance density fronts, coordinated with Wecoma and Barnes