STEMSEAS

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Kilo Moana

University of Hawaii · USA

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Planned route: 2 segments · ~7 days steaming

Operating area: Western Pacific

Route: San Francisco (California) - United States → Honolulu (Hawaii) - United States

Jun 30 – Jul 9, 20249 days at seaactual: departed Jun 30, 2024, arrived Jul 9, 2024

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Kilo Moana

University of Hawaii

Virus Export-California Current Ecosystem (CCE) — CA Coast -STEMSEAS — Western Pacific HOT 4 2024 — Station ALOHA (22.75N, 158W)REU SOEST — Hawaiian Island Area centered on Oahu reachable during a 5 day cruise.

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Project aboard

Experiential cruise for undergraduate students, particularly oriented for persons of color, non-traditional, and teaching-based higher education (CC and MSIs). Will conduct sampling of opportunity with available ship equipment (e.g., CTD casts; net tows; acoustic; flow through system sampling) during ship transit from San Francisco, CA to Honolulu HI.

People aboard

Christopher Hintz · Principal investigator

Party size: 11

Estimated vacant berths: 18

Equipment

Aboard the vessel

Underway Seawater System
Echosounder, 3.5kHz CHIRP
ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)
ADCP/UHDAS – range 1000m-1200m (e.g. 38kHz)
Multibeam - Deep Water (EM122, EM124)

Pooled / portable

CTD
Grab Sampler
Isaacs Kidd Midwater Trawl (IKMT)

Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code KM24-09 STEMSEAS · MFP reference 24/4654 · synced Sep 24, 2026