Deployment: SAV-12-03

2012-01-24 - 2012-02-02 South Atlantic Bight (SAB) continental shelf off Long Bay (-79W, 32N; -77W, 34 N) Platform:R/V Savannah (vessel)

Description

Glider deployments (Ramses and Pelagia), glider monitoring; Acrobat (towed package) surveys of 3 cross-shelf sections (25 km along-shelf spacing, mid-shelf to upper slope); CTD profiles for hydrography, bio-optical, oxygen; station sampling for chlorophyll, nutrients, flow cytometry; Deployment of 2 moorings off Georgia on return leg to SkIO (75 m and 30 m).

Cruise information and original data are available from the NSF R2R data catalog.



People

Chief Scientist: James Nelson
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

Co-Chief Scientist: Catherine Edwards
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography


Synonyms

• LB 2012 Leg 1 Cruise