Key-2025 sea trials

Completed

F.G. Walton Smith

University of Miami · USA

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PortPlanned routeResearch area

Planned route: 2 segments · ~2 hours steaming

Operating area: Miami

Route: Miami (Florida) - United States → Miami (Florida) - United States

May 6, 20251 day at seaactual: departed May 6, 2025, arrived May 6, 2025

Apr 2025

May

F.G. Walton Smith

University of Miami

SFER 2025 - 3 of 6 — Miami, Keys reef tract , and West Florida Shelf Test Vehicle Operations — All of the work in this task will take place approximately fifty (50) nautical miles (nm) off the coast of Jacksonville, FL, at JSWTTR

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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

Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code Key-2025: WS25126 · MFP reference 25/5940 · synced Sep 24, 2026