Silicon-Microbe 2024

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Pelican

Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium · USA

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Operating area: Gulf of Mexico Louisiana Shelf: inshore of the 50 m isobath and the western side of the Mississippi River delta to ~75 nautical miles west. Diameter ~100nm.

Route: Cocodrie (Louisiana) - United States → Cocodrie (Louisiana) - United States

Sep 14 – Sep 22, 20248 days at seaactual: departed Sep 14, 2024, arrived Sep 22, 2024

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Pelican

Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium

LISTEN GoMex — Gulf of Mexico Tiber Metocean Campaign — US GoM, Approx. 200 nm SW Cocodrie, LA MERCI 4 — Flower Gardens expansion area (banks east of main sanctuary)Silicon-Microbe 2024 — Gulf of Mexico Louisiana Shelf: inshore of the 50 m isobath and the western side of the Mississippi River delta to ~75 nautical miles west. Diameter ~100nm.Shell Stones WS Buoy 2024 SV — GoM GF-Fa24 — Territorial waters of the coast of Louisiana

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Project aboard

We will be conducting sediment coring and hydrocast surveys, and running experiments using radioisotope on the Louisiana Shelf in late summer/fall 2024 and spring 2025.

People aboard

Jeffrey Krause · Principal investigator

Party size: 10

Estimated vacant berths: 6

Equipment

Aboard the vessel

Underway Seawater System
Meteorological Data
Echosounder, 12kHz
ADCP/UHDAS – range < 30m (e.g. 600kHz-1200kHz)
ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)

Pooled / portable

CTD
Sediment Core
Portable Laboratory Van(s) - NSF Van Pool

Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code Krause · MFP reference 23/2929 · synced Sep 24, 2026