2026 Keymester
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Planned route: 2 segments · ~2 hours steaming
Operating area: Miami
Route: Miami (Florida) - United States → Miami (Florida) - United States
Mar 17, 20261 day at seaactual: departed Mar 17, 2026, arrived Mar 17, 2026
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F.G. Walton Smith
University of Miami
Project aboard
The UM Keymester cruise aboard RV Walton Smith allows junior and senior level undergraduates majoring in Oceanography to design and execute their own day-long experiment to find and measure the Gulf Stream front using shipboard and towed instrumentation.
People aboard
- Mariana Bernardi Bif · Chief scientist
- Guillaume Novelli · Chief scientist
- Lisa Beal · Principal investigator
Party size: 11
Estimated vacant berths: 3
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Stern A-Frame
- Underway Seawater System
- pCO2
- Meteorological Data
- Echosounder, 12kHz
- ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 500-750m (e.g. 75kHz)
Pooled / portable
- CTD
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code 2026 Kemster WS26076 · MFP reference 26/6627 · synced Sep 24, 2026