Silicon-Microbe 2025
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Planned routeStation
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: To be confirmed → To be confirmed
Apr 18 – Apr 27, 20269 days at sea
Mar 2026
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Pelican
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
Blind Faith Water Sampling — US GoM, Approx. 130 nm SE of Cocodrie, LASilicon-Microbe 2025 — 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.MuST Puerto Rico UXO survey — Culebra, Puerto Rico and Panama City, FL
Project aboard
We will be conducting sediment coring and hydrocast surveys, and running experiments using radioisotope on the Louisiana Shelf in early 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 23/2930 · synced Sep 24, 2026