Key-2025 sea trials 2nd
Completed
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Planned route: 2 segments · ~2 hours steaming
Operating area: Miami
Route: Miami (Florida) - United States → Miami (Florida) - United States
Dec 11, 20251 day at seaactual: departed Dec 11, 2025, arrived Dec 11, 2025
Nov 2025
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Jan 2026
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
- Lisa Beal · Principal investigator
- Guillaume Novelli · Chief scientist
Party size: 6
Estimated vacant berths: 8
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 Key 2025 2nd:WS25343 · MFP reference 25/6517 · synced Sep 24, 2026