RITAS
Completed
Operating area: NE Atlantic Shelf
Route: Narragansett (Rhode Island) - United States → Narragansett (Rhode Island) - United States
University of Rhode Island
Project aboard
The Rhode Island Teachers at Sea Program offers a unique experience to Rhode Island K-12 teachers. The teachers participate in the deployment and recovery of oceanographic instrumentation (CTD, multicore, plankton nets) and work with the samples in the lab. There are discussions regarding the equipment as well as the samples. The teachers then discuss how they would use this knowledge in their classroom. In particular, they discuss how the same concepts would be delivered to the different levels (K- 12).
People aboard
- David Smith · Principal investigator
Party size: 15
Estimated vacant berths: 3
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Stern A-Frame
- Echosounder, 12kHz
- Echosounder, 3.5kHz CHIRP
- Pinger, 12kHz
Pooled / portable
- CTD
- Sediment Core
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code EN730_Smith · MFP reference 24/5284 · synced Sep 24, 2026