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Pelican

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 8 – Sep 18, 20269 days at sea

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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 2026 and spring 2027.


People aboard

  • Jeffrey Krause · Principal investigator

Party size: 13

Estimated vacant berths: 3

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 25/5735 · synced Sep 24, 2026